Jim Nantz to Golf Magazine about the coverage of his divorce:
“I feel like the whole thing was so misrepresented. It’s really hard to believe what came out publicly and how salacious it sounded. It left me feeling really distrustful of everything I read or hear.
“I heard people I’m close to speculating on the radio about the divorce and ridiculing and laughing about some things that were written that just weren’t true. I thought, ‘Gosh, you know me better than that. I would never do that. How could you do this? Where is the sensitivity?’”
Where is the sensitivity? I wonder if Nantz’s wife was thinking that when she found out about his 20-something mistress.
I can’t speak to the radio thing, which I’m guessing involved some New York hosts, but what exactly was written about Nantz’s divorce that wasn’t true?
There was no need to speculate on what was going on because all of the details of his behavior where either available in public court documents or came out of Nantz’s mouth during his divorce court proceeding.
(Nantz’s 29-year-old mistress Courtney Richards)
If Nantz is that upset about lies being spread about him and his family in the media, why isn’t he suing the offending reporters and publications?
What I’ve always found so interesting about Nantz is how opinionated and somewhat provocative he can be when guesting on radio shows like Imus. He’s actually an interesting guy with a little bit of an edge. Yet on CBS, he serves us pap with a side of milquetoast.
This is the first time Nantz has experienced serious, professional adversity in his life. Instead of admitting what he did was wrong and moving on, he’s prolonging the bad publicity by lashing out at people for treating him the way everybody in his situation gets treated.
Welcome to the wonderful world of accountability.
1:35 pm on March 5th, 2010
As I always thought…. a phoney bastard!!
1:43 pm on March 5th, 2010
Courtney ain’t no stunner either, hard to believe that he’d risk it all for that!
1:49 pm on March 5th, 2010
A tradition unlike any other….having a young babe on the side.
1:58 pm on March 5th, 2010
My favorite story out of the Nantz divorce case was when Jimbo broke down crying on the stand recounting how his wife refused to allow him to hang an oil painting of himself in their living room…
Pretty much tells you all you need to know about Jim Nantz.
2:45 pm on March 5th, 2010
Is anyone shocked at how run of the mill all these sports celebs mistresses tend to be? There wasn’t one Tiger mistress that I’d cheat on my wife for. Steve McNair was killed by an average looking Dave & Busters hostess. Nantz’s girl looks extremely dull and Steve Philips was banging a serious ugo.
My wife is no bombshell, in all honesty I’d give her an 8.5 +/- .5 depending on the day but If cheating leads to lowering your standards then I think I’ll pick fidelity.
my wife is hotter than the 10+ Tiger girls. Come on you sports celebs live the life, you make millions and date girls who I probably wouldn’t look twice at.
2:56 pm on March 5th, 2010
Adam:
Your wife is only a 6.5 in the sack….and she is especially sensitive to the early morning sun off the ocean.
SM
3:04 pm on March 5th, 2010
Respectively, I think your missing the point Adam. Regardless of their looks, those girls have something all wives dont - a vagina the husband has not got a piece of. It all boils down to getting some strange.
3:06 pm on March 5th, 2010
Never liked this guy…always seemed so phony, and now he just can’t get out of his own way.
“Hello, friends…”
No…goodbye, Jim…please.
3:20 pm on March 5th, 2010
Respectively, “meh” trust me I understand the desire to get something different. But does that mean you’ll go for any thing w/ a vag between their legs? Sacrificing your standards of attractiveness is for desperate single men. Trust me I’ve been there. But if I were going to get some strange, or Cheat, I’d cheat with something worth the risk, guilt, and fun.
3:28 pm on March 5th, 2010
I guess my point is, I could go to a club and feel like I had a chance scoring with Jaime Grubbs or Rachel Uchitel. If I were Tiger Woods or Jim Nantz who both have $100+ mil in the bank. I wouldn’t even look twice at those broads.
5:35 pm on March 5th, 2010
So, will Nantz & Tiger be combing the streets of Augusta GA after the Masters??
5:42 pm on March 5th, 2010
Perhaps Tiger’s wife wouldn’t let him play the backside and he really didn’t want to stop after playing the front.
6:35 pm on March 5th, 2010
Why was this story even written? You’re such a putz. Does this website ever post something that isn’t aimed at demeaning? Just curious. Of course I wouldn’t expect to get an answer because you know that require something I doubt you have…character. It must suck to be a disgruntled former announcer. I would love to have your position but all you do is use it for negativity.
7:26 pm on March 5th, 2010
To me, the mistress looks like a 20-year-younger version of the (ex-)wife.
2:59 am on March 6th, 2010
Nantz wanted a divorce based on his wife’s spending.
She was spending the money he wanted to leave for his daughter.
During these tough economic times he wanted his daughter to inherit his wealth but when wifey goes on shopping sprees it takes away from he will leave to his daughter.
6:47 am on March 6th, 2010
get over urself.
ur not that important, jim.
u only do sports!
u f…..ed up, so to speak.
make amends,
and be humble
3:02 pm on March 7th, 2010
Metaphorically speaking, Natz has balls the size of his homestate. …um…he does come from TX doesn’t he?
Anyway, you get my point. Where does he get off expecting any kind of privacy or sympathy. If he didn’t want the divorce talked about he would have worked it out behind closed doors with the wife.. of course that would have cost him more, but look how much money the guy has … and how much earning potential going forward. Tons. Endless.
That couple fell out of love long ago thus I’m sure the wife couldn’t have cared less about the mistress, except in as much as the mistress probably helped her in getting more money from Mr. Nantz and added several million onto her settlement. The former Ms. Nantz and her lawyer are probably singing the praises of the mistress all the way to the bank. :o)
4:49 pm on March 8th, 2010
That is why I was ROFLMAO when I heard Nantz and Faldo talking about TIger a few weeks ago during the Match Play. Hypocrites. Elin allegedly smashed Tiger’s Escalade windows out. We know for a fact that Faldo’s 20 year old girlfriend, who he left his wife and three kids for, smashed out the windows of his Porsche 959.
9:31 am on March 9th, 2010
This is just going from sublime to ridiculous. What in sam hill does this have anything to do with golf or sport? This should be retricted to dear Abbey or divorce court. It absolutely has no place in a sports column. People, you need to get to get some common sense. Unfortunately common sense does not seem to be very common any more. Just sums up current social structure. Try an interesting exercise. Get three friends together and have a fifteen minute conversation without alking about someone that is not in the conversation. BET YOU CAN’T DO IT! Then thnk about it. How many conversations are you in when you ae not present? Nice thought huh?
11:49 am on May 30th, 2011
So sorry==I thought Jim did a good job/