Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman split on PGA | Golf News

CBS broadcast companions Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman are at odds about the forthcoming PGA Championship showdown at Quail Hollow, as a sturdy discipline of 156 opponents vie for the Wanamaker Trophy.

Nestled in the published sales space close to the enduring 18th inexperienced in North Carolina, both Nantz and Immelman will witness firsthand who claims the second main of the season. The occasion is shaping up to be particularly enthralling following Rory McIlroy’s outstanding Masters triumph just a month earlier.

With high abilities like Bryson DeChambeau, Scottie Scheffler, and Justin Thomas coming into the fray in glorious type, anticipation is high for an electrifying 4 days on the hyperlinks. However, despite Quail Hollow’s historical past of being pleasant to rising stars – as evidenced during its internet hosting of the 2017 PGA Championship and its annual PGA Tour occasion – Nantz speculates this week might even see a younger, ascending golfer steal the highlight from the seasoned main winners.

Despite McIlroy’s string of victories at Quail Hollow, Nantz is throwing his prediction behind Swedish prodigy Ludvig Aberg to make waves and doubtlessly set up himself as a new golf luminary in Charlotte. “If you look at the history at Quail Hollow, every once in a while there is a player who emerges there that maybe you say, ‘Wow. Where did that come from? How good is that guy going to be?'” Nantz remarked.

“And I think through the years at Quail Hollow, I think of people like Rory. We knew he was a golf prodigy, but that was the first win that he had over here. Rickie Fowler’s first win was there. Think of the Wyndham Clark win a couple years ago before he won in L.A. [U.S. Open].

“And issue that in with generally the PGA Championship will ship us somebody that you have got a quizzical look at it at first and say ‘Wow, that man has that sort of skill?’ They nearly at all times appear to pan out as credentialed and show to be a meritorious top-flight participant.

“I’m going through the list at Quail Hollow. Justin Thomas’s first of two PGA Championships in 2017. He was a very young player on the Tour when he won there. There is history here, where perhaps that is the storyline.”

Nantz continued: “As much as we want to think it’s Rory’s playground, we think it might be Jordan [Spieth] going for the career Grand Slam, or Scottie is on a roll, if Ludvig Aberg won, it would make perfect sense to me right now. This would be the kind of place and time where it seems to happen. There is a big top-flight talent that’s young and somehow he survives the Green Mile and a great field and emerges. And it’s the launch of a superstar career. And I think Ludvig could be one of those examples.”

Immelman, the 2008 Masters champion, provided a contrasting perspective on the event. While acknowledging the long record of rising abilities like Joaquin Niemann and Nicolai and Rasmus Hojgaard, among others, Immelman is betting on an skilled participant to clinch the title this week.

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The South African anticipates that the winner will emerge from seasoned gamers such as McIlroy, Scheffler, DeChambeau, and others. “I hear exactly what Jim is saying. There are so many players that are kind of standing on the side of the road right now wanting to dip their toe out there and get into it,” Immelman mentioned.

“Aberg falls into that, we mentioned Niemann. The Hojgaard brothers have started to find a little form here in America. And then a whole host of guys I’m leaving out. Andrew Novak has been in brilliant form over the last four or five weeks.

“But the celebrities, all of the celebrities, are coming into this PGA Championship in such great type that I see the winner coming from that group of 10 gamers or so.”