Getting to know Smylie Kaufman

With a third-round, three-under-par 69 that gave him outright second place behind Jordan Spieth after 54 holes, the golfing world wanted to know a little more about 24-year-old Smylie Kaufman.

Getting to know Smylie Kaufman

That included CBS sports anchor Jim Nantz, who to American viewers is as synonymous with Masters as azaleas and pimento cheese sandwiches.

Nantz invited Alabama’s Kaufman into the interview studio within Butler’s Cabin and got straight down to the nitty-gritty, that the Masters rookie with more than US$2 million in prize money this season is still living with his parents.

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