In an emotional goodbye, the legendary Verne Lundquist bid farewell to Augusta Nationwide a 12 months in the past, which marked his fortieth Masters broadcast.
His two most well-known calls will dwell in Augusta lore eternally. In 1986, Lundquist uttered, “Sure sir!” as Jack Nicklaus took the lead with a birdie putt on the seventeenth gap. Nineteen years later, in 2005, Lundquist additional cemented himself in Masters historical past by asking, “In your life have you ever ever seen something like that!?” In fact, that query got here instantly after Tiger Woods holed out for birdie in probably the most inconceivable method, a second that grew to become synonymous with each Woods and Lundquist’s illustrious careers.
However Lundquist will now not name the motion from the tower that overlooks the sixteenth inexperienced.
Frank Nobilo will as a substitute.
Nobilo has labored for CBS Sports activities since 2015, when he changed the late, nice Peter Oostheruis. Over the previous few years at Augusta Nationwide, Nobilo has referred to as the motion from Amen Nook, the place the match was kind of determined a 12 months in the past. Ludvig Åberg discovered the pond to the left of the inexperienced, and Max Homa made a double-bogey on the well-known par-3 twelfth, which elevated Scottie Scheffler’s constructing lead on the second 9. Scheffler in the end cruised to a second Masters victory. Nobilo was there firsthand, offering wonderful evaluation on the way it all performed out.
He obtained nice reward from his CBS colleagues throughout a Masters preview name with media on Tuesday.
Earlier than his time at CBS, Nobilo was a fixture on the Golf Channel, working primarily within the studio earlier than transitioning to calling dwell golf. He additionally grew to become a fixture on Golf Channel’s Dwell From set, which now options Brandel Chamblee and Paul McGinley as analysts and Wealthy Lerner because the host.
Nobilo, who hails from and continues to dwell in Auckland, New Zealand, reached his enjoying peak within the Nineties, when he posted stable finishes in all 4 main championships. He even completed solo fourth on the 1996 Masters, a 12 months universally identified for Greg Norman’s demise and Nick Faldo’s Sunday ascendance to a 3rd Masters victory.
Nobilo is aware of all in regards to the immense strain gamers really feel on the second 9 on Sunday, making him the right alternative for Lundquist on the well-known sixteenth.
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By means of. Observe him on X @jack_milko.
