As the PGA Tour wraps up its postseason while uncertainty surrounding the future of LIV Golf rages on, the game is once again grappling with a highly debated issue: Should star players who left the PGA Tour be welcomed back, and if so, in what capacity?It’s a question that Jim Nantz, the voice of golf for the better part of the last three decades, has clearly spent time thinking about — as it pertains to both the CBS broadcast he anchors and the values of the sport of golf as a whole. That is why Nantz — who was joined by his CBS colleagues Dottie Pepper and Trevor Immelman — had a candid observation when asked about the dilemma on a Zoom call with The Athletic on Wednesday.“The game is thriving without them,” he said, noting that last week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship had its best broadcast viewership showing since 2013.“I, like everyone else, am anxious to see how they can sort this out, and how you can make everybody happy, because there are a lot of PGA Tour players who resisted the urge to go take their game somewhere else and cash in on a bounty or a largesse,” Nantz said. “And they’re going to have a strong opinion on this.”Nantz continued to share that, in all of the sports he has covered in his career, he has never experienced another game so dependent on integrity. He believes that trait cannot be forgotten during this inflection point.“(Jon Rahm) left with absolutely all the consequences out there, for the public to know, for him to know, for his team to know,” Nantz said. “You’re gonna risk it all, you can’t come back, and you’ve gotta make a decision … Golf is a game that, at its core, leans more on its rules and the consequences than any other game. And I’ve covered a lot of them. I’ve never seen a sport that leans so heavily into what a handshake means, what a contract means.”