Trevor Immelman thought it was a joke he was Sir Nick Faldo's replacement

It's turning out to be quite a year for Trevor Immelman, the Presidents Cup captain who has also replaced Sir Nick Faldo as the lead analyst on CBS following the Englishman's retirement. 

Immelman has previously admitted that LIV Golf is "a pain in my a**" because a huge contingent of the International Team will reportedly be heading over to the controversial series. 

Those players include Cameron Smith, who has reportedly already penned a deal north of $100million to defect to LIV, along with Mito Peireira, Marc Leishman and Joaquin Niemann. 

Niemann has confirmed that he is still mulling over his LIV offer and will make his decision after the conclusion of the FedEx Cup Playoffs at East Lake. 

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"From a Presidents Cup standpoint it's made it uber tricky," Immelman previously said. "We're talking about team rooms - how about if I'd gone ahead and put images up of different players and then all of a sudden those guys aren't able to be there? That gives it a bit of a different vibe."

Now Immelman has lifted the lid on the process that saw him take over from Faldo, who was reduced to tears during his final broadcast at the Wyndham Championship before the PGA Tour's postseason. 

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Speaking to Golf's Subpar podcast, Immelman explained that he thought CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus "was kidding" when the phone call came. 

"He said to me, 'Well, Nick is retiring and we've decided that we want you to be the lead analyst," he told the podcast. 

Apparently, the network had looked at a number of different options but everyone kept on returning to Immelman as their number one choice. 

"[I was] incredibly humbled by that," Immelman said. "It's a spot that has only been held by four people before me — and you're talking about absolute legends of the game when you're talking about Sir Nick and Ken Venturi and Lanny Wadkins.

"Man, maybe it hasn't even sunk in, to be honest … But it feels good when I think about it, I will say that."

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