Prince of Pebble comes home

Call him the Prince of Pebble or perhaps The Mayor. Jim Nantz, the longtime voice of golf for CBS Sports, can live anywhere in the world and he loves nothing more than calling Pebble Beach home.

Nantz, 60, isn’t broadcasting this week’s US Open. Rather, he is soaking in the championship as the unofficial chairman of the local welcome committee. He is known to get around town in a Bentley customised golf cart that previously belonged to his broadcast sidekick, Ken Venturi, watch golfers tee off at Pebble Beach from his favorite table at the Gallery Cafe, the same one where Arnold Palmer used to break bread, and even has an omelet named after him at Katy’s Place in Carmel-by-the-Sea.