{"id":539844,"date":"2026-03-14T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539844\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:32:10","slug":"how-tiger-woods-is-being-honored-at-this-years-players-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539844\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tiger Woods Is Being Honored At This Year’s Players Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go on, watch it again. It\u2019s one of those special Tiger Woods moments<\/a> – and we\u2019re not talking about that chip at Augusta.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Players Championship<\/a> week, and 25 years since Tiger<\/a>\u2019s \u201cBetter than most\u201d putt.<\/p>\n

To honor Woods, The Players has done something pretty special this week – but before we get onto that, let\u2019s rewind the clock to 2001.<\/p>\n

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Woods, the World No.1, was at the peak of his powers, yet the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass<\/a> was proving a difficult nut to crack.<\/p>\n

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With no victories at the famous course in his first four attempts and just one sub-70 round, could it be possible that the best player to pick up a golf club in the history of the game might not win golf\u2019s unofficial \u2018Fifth Major\u2019<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Possible, yes, but unlikely.<\/p>\n

Third-round leader Jerry Kelly was optimistic about his chances through 36 holes, as he opined that Woods was \u201cjust another player\u201d.<\/p>\n

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In the third round, Woods gifted us that special moment, one that will be shown over and over again on Saturday, as he took control of the tournament in style.<\/p>\n

TPC Sawgrass is known for its signature hole, the par-3 17th<\/a>, with the \u201cisland green\u201d a terrifyingly small target even with a wedge, especially when the wind whips in across the water.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just the water that gives players a headache: find the wrong part of the green, and it\u2019s easy to throw in a costly three-putt near the end of the round.<\/p>\n

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Woods hit his pitching wedge straight at the flag, but it went long, and he was fortunate not to find the water.<\/p>\n

Now, though, he was standing on the top tier facing a triple-breaking putt that went right-to-left, then left-to-right, and then back right-to-left.<\/p>\n

He was also 60 feet away, so the odds of making a par were stacked against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetter than most,\u201d was the iconic call by NBC\u2019s Gary Koch, as Woods\u2019 putt tracked towards the hole – and then disappeared from view.<\/p>\n

The 2001 Players Championship ran into Monday because of bad weather, and it was Woods who prevailed by one shot over Vijay Singh.<\/p>\n

The hole location on the iconic 17th for Saturday\u2019s third round will be the same one used during the 2001 edition of the tournament, and players will notice a specially engraved cup when retrieving their golf ball from the hole.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a nice touch from the organizers, but probably won\u2019t make anyone feel any better after taking a trip to the drink or three-putting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Go on, watch it again. It\u2019s one of those special Tiger Woods moments – and we\u2019re not talking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-539844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}