EA Sports adding the Masters tournament to its Tiger Woods PGA Tour video game franchise is "the biggest get ever in the golf game business," says Jim Nantz, the longtime CBS Sports announcer and voice of the upcoming edition of the game with David Feherty.

"It's got to be the biggest get ever in the golf game business to be able to get the rights for Augusta National for people to be able to have the inside ticket to be able to see Augusta, to play Augusta," Nantz said in an interview recently. "It's every golfer's dream to one day go to the Masters to watch the tournament or one day go and play the course. And you know, for most people, they are never going to be able to have the chance to do that. But now they have a chance to do the one thing that is going to feel the most real to them outside of the actual experience of walking down the sacred site of Augusta. They are going to play it and it's going to look to them just like it looks to the golfers that do play at August. I have looked at the graphics and it is scary real."

Players will get a chance to tee it up soon. EA Sports will be launching a demo of its Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters game March 8 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The accompanying videos show some of the new features, but mention that the demo is available now; it's not available until March 8.

Players can play the first five holes at TPC San Antonio Oaks Course -- a new addition to the game -- in a "Road to the Masters" mode. By completing those holes, players can bypass the EA Sports Amateur Tour in the retail version of the game and go straight to the Nationwide Tour. Players who share the demo get additional experience points, too.

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12: The Masters ($60) will go on sale March 29 (worldwide on April 1) on PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. The Wii edition ($50) will include 24 courses; the PS3 and Wii get 16. The Masters and five additional courses will also be included in the collector's edition ($70), exclusively for the PS3.

More than 20 golfers appear in the game, including Bubba Watson (2011 Farmers Insurance Open champion), Zach Johnson (2007 Masters champion) and Rickie Fowler (2010 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year).

Here's a video about the Xbox 360 version of the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters demo:

More from our interview with CBS Sports announcer Jim Nantz:

Have you worked in a video game before?

I'm still the voice of Golden Tee. I have been for maybe six years. I know it is kind of a different realm than what EA is doing, but in the arcade end of the business they were at one time No. 1 in the world in arcade games. Might still be up there. It's a very popular game.

What have you done for the PGA Tour game?

I spent a number of days in a studio this fall laying down lines. There were so many lines recorded that hopefully no one will ever hear the same line twice. Thousands of different variations of different scenes. Somebody said I laid down 4,000 lines. I like the over by a lot on that. I think they may have written 4,000 and I did more than that. When you are commentating on golf or any sport it's all ad-lib; it's all extemporaneous. It's what you see in front of you. I don't read scripted lines when I am broadcasting. I react to what I see. We could spend hours just laying down lines for bunker scenarios on given holes, fairway bunkers, greenside bunkers, leaving a shot in the bunker, ball being at rest against the rake. Most of the copy is reactionary one-liners: "What a shot from the bunker here at the sixth." That might be the basic line. I would find myself closing my eyes and imaging the scene they were trying to capture and then in my own phraseology spitting out in straight sentences one line after another and it was very natural for me to do that.

Over recent years video games have become more and more interwinded in sports. Do you agree? Thoughts on what that means?

I think it's proven that it's a huge hook for the younger generation to get hooked in a given sport. To get more fans of the NFL through the Madden games that they have had and, obviously, they have had a huge success with the previous generations of the EA Sports golf games. But now that you are going to have the Masters, and again this is the biggest get ever, people are going to have a chance to experience and get the feel, the look, the vibe of Augusta, you can just imagine how many people are going to be turned onto the game because they are going to have a chance to play the greatest course of all.

This is why this was important to Billy Payne and the folks at Augusta National Golf Club. They did this not for any great commercialization; that is something that was never important to them. They are doing it for the good of the game, growing the sport. All of their profits are going back into the Masters charitable foundation. The whole concept from Augusta National's standpoint comes from a very good place.

Do you have a favorite sport and favorite event to cover?

It's not a fair question. It's like asking a parent who is your favorite child. I have the good fortune at CBS thanks to Sean McManus our president (at CBS News and Sports), we have the best events. This past year, I called the Super Bowl, the Final Four and the Masters in a 60-day sequence. That's the second time in my career I've got to do those three events over the course of nine weeks. It happens every three years because we alternate the Super Bowl with Fox and NBC.

It is hard to say that anything is better than the Super Bowl or the Final Four -- our Super Bowl game last year was the most watched television show in history. The Saints-Colts game, I got to call that. However, I have been on record saying that I wouldn't trade one Masters for 20 Super Bowls. The Masters is so entrenched in my heart. It was the driving force as a young boy to turn to my father at the age of 11 and say, one day I want to be one of those voices. I was absolutely obsessed as a boy to one day be able to broadcast Augusta.

I've been fortunate in 25 years to have called four Super Bowls, 25 Final Fours and 25 Masters and people say, 'What is left?' I want to do 50 Masters, that is my goal. I have looked it up and the Masters is always contested in the second week of April and it will always end on the second Sunday in April. If I had my way, God willing and CBS willing, my last last day on air will be April 8, 2035. That will be the day that I will sign off from Butler Cabin and my 50th Masters. There's got to be a lot of good things happen to fall my way. But I'm very thankful to have been a part of 25. Each one has been a blessing to me.