His voice has called 40 Masters Tournaments, narrating the sport’s most sacred weeks with a calm that feels almost rehearsed. But the life Jim Nantz has built away from Augusta, the family, the quiet Nashville mornings, the woman who never needed a microphone, rarely makes the broadcast. Courtney Richards has been beside him through all of it, and most fans have never heard her name.

Who is Jim Nantz’s wife, Courtney Richards?

Courtney Richards Nantz is the second wife of Jim Nantz, the CBS Sports broadcaster known for his long association with the Masters. They married on June 9, 2012, at Pebble Beach Golf Links. The couple has two children: Finley Cathleen, born in 2014, and Jameson, born in 2016. Throughout their marriage, Richards has consistently chosen to remain out of the public eye.

Courtney Richards was born on November 22, 1979. Reports of her height range from 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 11 inches, but she has not confirmed a specific figure. This is consistent with her approach to personal information.

No public information is available on Courtney Richards’ parents. Every credible biographical source notes the same gap: she has kept her early life and family background private, with no confirmed names or verified details accessible across any reliable outlet.

How did Jim Nantz and Courtney Richards meet?

Nantz met Richards during a significant period in his personal life. He had been married to Ann-Lorraine Carlsen since 1983, and their marriage ended in a contested divorce in 2009 after 26 years. At that time, Nantz was represented by IMG, where Richards was Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Their paths first crossed professionally around 2009, during the divorce. A judge later confirmed that the relationship with Richards was not a factor in the end of the first marriage.

After that meeting, events moved fast. Nantz proposed to Richards on September 14, 2010, while they were at Walker’s Point in Maine. Former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush were present. The wedding took place less than two years later at Pebble Beach. The guest list included Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples, Tom Brady, Robert Kraft, Phil Simms, and CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus.

In the summer of 2021, the family moved from California to Nashville. They have lived there since. One detail from their marriage stands out. When their daughter was born in 2014, Nantz suggested the name Finley. The name was chosen because of Samuel Finley Brown Morse, the founder of Pebble Beach. Nantz did not tell Courtney about the connection until after she agreed to the name.

“I admit now she might not have been as smitten had I told her about the Sam Morse connection up front.”

Their son Jameson arrived on February 7, 2016, six days after Super Bowl 50. Richards told Nantz to call the game regardless, and he later recalled what she said when he raised the possibility of staying home.

“It would have killed me if I would not have been there for the birth of my son, but my wife made it very clear: Don’t even talk to me, you’re doing the game.”

What does Courtney Richards do for a living?

Before her marriage, Richards held a senior executive position at IMG, managing relationships with high-profile clients across sales and marketing. Richards worked as vice president at IMG, the talent management company that represented Nantz, which is the context in which the two first met. After the wedding in 2012, she stepped back from that career to focus on family life and has supported Nantz’s Alzheimer’s disease advocacy throughout their marriage. Nantz founded the Nantz National Alzheimer Center alongside Houston Methodist Hospital in 2011, building it in honor of his father, who lived with the disease for 13 years. In 2019, Richards was involved alongside Nantz in a clothing collaboration with Vineyard Vines, a venture that carried a portion of the proceeds toward that cause.

Courtney Richards on Instagram

Courtney Richards does not have a verified or active public Instagram account. Multiple profiles exist under variations of her name, but none have been confirmed as hers by any reliable source, and the content of those profiles shows no verifiable connection to Nantz or CBS Sports events. She maintains the same approach to social media as she does to public life: a studied absence.

For 40 years, one voice has told golf’s biggest stories to millions of people. The woman shares that life has never felt the need to tell her own. The vines have no whispers on Courtney Richards, and by all available evidence, that is entirely by design.