Four months later, the evening still resonates. You might think that would be owed to Jim Nantz’s voice having such a soothing effect on you.

But what resonates from the evening of October 14, 2021, isn’t so much Nantz’s words – though they were impactful and magnificently spoken – but the depths of love, gratitude, and benevolence that he brought on stage for all to see.

He opened his heart and challenged us to do the same.

The occasion was the annual Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund banquet and, per usual, a full house – about 1,300 people – was in attendance. Nantz, the heralded voice of CBS sports who for most of his 34 years with the network has been deeply involved in golf coverage, was the guest of honor.

Presented with the Francis Ouimet Award for Lifetime Contributions to Golf, Nantz could have regaled all of us with some stories from his marvelous career, maybe take us inside Butler Cabin where he has been front and center with the Masters winner since 1989.

Instead, in a unique and fashionable twist that speaks to his inimitable dignity, Nantz reminded all of us in attendance what this evening was all about. “The Ouimet Fund and the scholarship is about giving back and remembering those who gave you a chance,” he said.

It was here that Jim Nantz deftly shifted things. He was going to do the giving back and the remembering of someone who gave someone a chance.

“So, what I want to do . . . I don’t want it (the endowed scholarship that is awarded to banquet honorees) to be in my name . . . ”

If the room was absorbed and seemingly in suspense, one guest started to get an idea as to where Nantz was headed.

“I had no idea what would unfold when I went that night,” said Jerry Trupiano, the longtime radio sportscaster, including a memorable 14-year run with the Red Sox, who was Nantz’s invited guest.

“I was sitting and talking at the table with Jim’s daughter Finley and when I started listening to his words, I sort of sensed what was coming and I started to choke up. I was shocked. I had tears in my eyes.”

For good reason. His GPS was correct. Nantz told the full house that this endowed scholarship would be in Trupiano’s name.

“You could say I’m the Ouimet Scholarship recipient of his love and mentorship,” announced Nantz, who called Trupiano to the stage. “He was the ultimate play-by-play voice; he taught me how to do it. He’s the ultimate giver.”

Trupiano embraced Nantz on stage that evening but could barely speak. Four months later, he is still overwhelmed by his friend’s act and will speak to the deep bond he has had with Nantz for more than 40 years. One thing, said Trupiano, is radiantly clear: “Jim is the same classy individual he was when I first met him.”

Remember the focal point to the banquet – $2.75 million was awarded in 2021-22 to 450 Ouimet scholars. “That’s 450 dreams coming true,” said Nantz. “Think about that. Applaud that. That’s an amazing thing.”

True, all that Nantz said, but what also deserves applause is how he so beautifully connected the dots.

Providing scholarship assistance, believing in someone, giving someone a chance. That is what this Ouimet Fund has been about since 1949 and it was what played out more than 40 years ago with Trupiano and Nantz.

As the sports director at KTRH in Houston back in the late 1970s, early 1980s, Trupiano was asked to interview a University of Houston student who called “out of the blue” and said he would love an internship. When a young man named Dave Barrett walked in “he had rainbow suspenders and looked like a hippie in a movie out of central casting,” laughed Trupiano, who hired him anyway.

The next communications student to call was Barrett’s friend and classmate and Trupiano discovered a young man with a “nice, pressed shirt, hair combed perfectly” and a warm personality. Trupiano hired Jim Nantz, too.

If you’re keeping score at home, ladies and gentlemen, put Trupiano down for a pair of home runs. Barrett, who died at 63 in 2018, went on to become a renowned and award-winning reporter for CBS Radio. Nantz has gone on to become a veritable member of everyone’s household, be it through NFL telecasts or PGA Tour tournaments.

“He’s the best, clearly at the top of his profession,” said Trupiano. “But above all, he’s just a good, caring person.”

Trupiano knows of the epic segments that have helped build the Nantz legend. How he was extremely close to President George H.W. Bush (41) and remains great friends with President George W. Bush (43), and how at a State Dinner in 2007, Nantz was at a table with a King (Arnold Palmer) and a Queen (Elizabeth II). For good reason, the other table guests appeared quiet and in awe.

So, Bush 43 nudged his friend and said, “Nantz, you’re sitting here for a reason; keep the conversation going.”

The story was humorously recalled during the eulogy Nantz delivered at Palmer’s memorial service in 2016. “He wrote notes for that,” said Trupiano with a touch of marvel, “but he never opened them up. He just spoke from the heart.”

The Ouimet evening was all from the heart, too. “It was,” said Nantz, “a very special evening for me.”

So, too, for Trupiano, who embraces the symmetry to all of this. “I guess I kind of gave him his first job,” he said, “and now he’s helped get me into this job (as a lecturer at the University of Houston’s School of Communications).”

It's what friends do. They give. They remember.