Golf fans will have no shortage of viewing options for the Masters, and that goes beyond the 27 hours of live coverage (streaming and linear) on Prime Video, ESPN, Paramount Plus and CBS.

CBS, in its 71st year covering the Masters, will have a pair of one-hour shows ahead of the final round on April 12. One will look back 40 years at Jack Nicklaus charging to his sixth Green Jacket at age 46. The other is Jim Nantz sitting down with Rory McIlroy at Pebble Beach in February to revisit McIlroy's thrilling playoff victory last year.

Augusta National announced last week that Prime Video, in addition to two hours of streaming on the weekdays leading into ESPN coverage, will have a stats-driven program dedicated to Amen Corner.

Nicklaus is scheduled to join the Prime coverage for the opening round, with NBC Sports commentator Terry Gannon as the host. The Amen Corner stream on Prime will be hosted by Fox Sports and NBC anchor Justin Kutcher, with analysts that include 2006 US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy and NBC regulars Smylie Kaufman and John Wood.

Nantz recalled days of a shorter window on network TV and how much it has grown.

"I think it's an amazing undertaking what we're doing now with all those different sources," Nantz said Monday. "The amount of programming is amazing. Every shot, every hole. It is a massive undertaking, and I'm really proud of the people, as time has marched on, how they've been able to pull this off and do it so seamlessly."

David Berson, the CEO and president of CBS Sports, was quick to point out that for all the feeds, millions still come together on the main feed Sunday afternoon to watch the final round unfold. He said last year's Masters peaked at nearly 20 million viewers.

"We like providing it for everyone," Berson said.

"And despite all these different feeds, it's so nice that we can bring everyone together for the main coverage like we do, and I love that it's being so widely recognized."

A close call

All of this added coverage puts a new spin on one of the bizarre moments of McIlroy's Masters win last year, when Bryson DeChambeau said afterward: "(He) didn't talk to me once all day."

It turns out there was one brief conversation. McIlroy shared a remarkable tale in the documentary Rory McIlroy: The Masters Wait that began airing Monday on Prime Video and told of a moment at Augusta National that had not previously been revealed.

McIlroy was three shots ahead when both hit it close on the par-4 ninth, leading to a question of who was away.

"I thought it very clearly was my putt. I thought his ball was slightly closer than mine," McIlroy says in the film. "We sort of look at each other, and I'm like, 'well I think it's me to go.' And he's like, 'well I think it's me'."

McIlroy felt it was like match play, a big advantage to whoever was first to hole the birdie putt, but what followed surprised him.

"He goes: 'Well why don't we just throw a tee up for it to see who goes first?'" McIlroy said. "And I'm like, 'no'. This is the final round of the Masters. This isn't some game on a Tuesday afternoon somewhere."

McIlroy suggested a nearby rules official decide, and DeChambeau gave in by saying: "No, no. It's fine. You can go anyway. I don't care."

McIlroy made it, DeChambeau missed, and three holes later he was seven shots behind and out of it.

"I wasn't going to wilt in that situation," McIlroy said.

Unusual prep

McIlroy usually plays in Texas leading up to the Masters — Houston, San Antonio or when Match Play in Austin was on the schedule — but chose not to play since The Players Championship.

Meanwhile, Scottie Scheffler intended to play the Houston Open until he withdrew early in the week to return to Dallas for the impending birth of his second child.

That means three weeks off for the world's top two players, both of them perhaps trying to end a curious streak. The last Masters champion who was off in the three weeks leading to Augusta National was Adam Scott in 2013.