Rory Mcilroy “has its masterpiece” and the CBS can celebrate a memorable transmission
About 70 minutes passed after one of the most memorable broadcasts of Masters in history and SHY sellers, the main producer of the event for the CBS Sports, was asked what he intended to do in Augusta for the rest of the evening. His voice was Rauca. Augusta’s pollen had had the toll. He was ready for a drink.
“I will stay in a house with our director, Steve Milton; the producer of the first nine holes, Jim Rikhoff; our producer of Replay, Chris Svendsen; and our associated producer, Mark Dibbs,” Shy said. “We will probably go to sit outside and make a big fire. Then, perhaps a great cocktail. I can also see us review the transmission as a fan so that we can enjoy how much, we hope, millions have done it.”
Shy is not a name that you would recognize unless your obsession for golf extends to the people of sports television production. And if he does, God helps you. But if you looked at Rory Mcilroy finally conquers his nerves On Sunday afternoon and defeat Justin Rose in a dramatic sudden playoff to win his first Masters title, Shy was behaving like eyes and ears. This was the electrifying television, dramatic as the third season of “The White Lotus”.
“Rory gave us such a tour in the mountains on the roller coasters-which started with her two doubles at 15 and 17 at the beginning of the week-that we knew that it would not be a simple ceremony of the green jacket for him,” Shy said. “You take it and then you add that we followed Rory 11 years not only for her green jacket trip, but her trip for the career Grand Slam.”
It is worth waiting. #Themasters pic.twitter.com/8hrfc13pwb
– Golf on CBS ⛳ (@golfoncbs) April 14, 2025
Unlike the spectators’ impulse speed at home, Shy said things were controlled and calm in the production truck during the final round and playoffs. A great reason for this was that most of the main production of the CBS is decades of work on the Masters. Shy joined the CBS Sports in 1997 and her first teacher for the company was memorable: Tiger Woods, just 21 years old, winning his first great championship with 12 shots. Shy assumed the role of guiding the CBS Sports golf production in January 2021. This was its fifth master as the main producer, and showed it in production. The transmission had everything under control, even if the hell detached the last nine.
“We have transmitted, in the past, the nearby calls of Rory to the Masters and we wanted to be live with him and document him all the way to the live playoffs,” Shy said. “We wanted the fans at home to reacted as we did on the truck. It is a lot of (analyst) Trevor (Immelman), like the 2008 Masters champion, documenting Rory, who seems to be at his best when he has the pedal and in the worst case when he tries to play in a conservative way. We tried to set which Rory he would get.”
Golf fans are very unique when it comes to the winning call of a major and the lead station Jim Nantz is certainly aware when a call is reproduced for decades. Here is what he said while Mcilroy went in line for sudden death for the victory: “Look at the long, symbolic shadows, this moment of the journey he made to get here. For all this story … the long journey is over !! Mcilroy has its masterpiece!“
After the winning Putt fell, Nantz and Immelman paid tribute to Rose, who came second. After a quick back and forth among the main broadcasters, the CBS remained silent for five minutes and seven seconds while the images of Mcilroy told the story. With the close camera on the golf player, Mcilroy was accumulated by a parade of supporters during a long walk to the Club House. CBS got the money line when Mcillroy said to her friends: “I have to go get a green jacket.”
Rory Mcilroy plans to go and get a green jacket. pic.twitter.com/suyucgxxgm
– Golf on CBS ⛳ (@golfoncbs) April 13, 2025
Shy said that the approach, so that the transmission “settles” or is silent, began in 2019 when Woods won his fifth green jacket.
“Then there was nothing said, and it was so powerful,” Shy said. “We learned something then: that he had the right formula to make a great transmission. I have to tell everyone that they are on all the keys (the mechanism to talk to the broadcasters) to keep silent? I don’t do it. Everyone knows that this is what you should do. We knew that the photos would have been everything that the fans should have. Anyone else could have said at that moment to make it more powerful than that walk he gave.”
Is there a discussion to argue that Nantz and Immelman should have identified some of the people embraced Mcilroy for occasional fans? Safe. But I preferred the pose. You can complain about the CBS sports when it comes to those who show during a tournament, but generally nail the post-celebration of the masters.
“I saw in my office in the center of content of Augusta National”, wrote the president and CEO of the CBS Sports David Berson via SMS a couple of minutes after its end. “However electrifying a teacher can ever hope. I am incredibly proud of our team. This is one that we will remember forever.”
Mcilroy will provide CBS with something he needs in the last two years: a great pop of spectators for the final round. The last round of the masters last year has marked on average 9.59 million spectators, Falling 20 percent from 2023 (A great warning is that the 2023 final round was broadcast on Easter Sunday and benefited from great spectators away from home). This dropped from 10.17 million viewers for the final round of Sunday in 2022. These numbers are also significantly down compared to 10 years ago, when 14 million viewers saw Jordan Spieth captured the title. For Austin Karp of the Sports Business Journal, the third round of this year brought 7.6 million spectators on Saturday, up 16 % compared to last year.
Come on Monday, it is likely that we see a large number of spectators for the last round compared to last year, given the hype in progress on Sunday with Bryson Dechambeau and Mcilroy in the final combination. Then add how the final round and the dramatic finish took place. You can understand why shy sports and CBS will absorb this beautiful feeling: we will hear about this teacher for some time.
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