{"id":524273,"date":"2026-03-15T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/524273\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:10:08","slug":"gary-koch-opens-up-to-the-post-25-years-after-his-everlasting-tiger-woods-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/524273\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Koch opens up to The Post 25 years after his everlasting Tiger Woods call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PONTE VEDRA, Fla. \u2014 The call, like the shot, was better than most.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was 25 years ago, the third round of the 2001 Players Championship, when NBC golf announcer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nXeWJuB0Fqc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gary Koch\u2019s call<\/a> of an impossible 60-foot Tiger Woods birdie putt on the iconic island-green 17th hole went viral before there was any such thing as viral.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To this day, Koch\u2019s \u201cbetter than most\u2019\u2019 call lives in infamy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38782421\" width=\"387\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-602763.jpg\" alt=\"Tiger Woods celebrates after holing a long birdie on the 17th hole at  TPC at Sawgrass during the third round of play at The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.  \" class=\"wp-image-38782421\" style=\"width:734px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:0.65625;display:block\"  \/>Tiger Woods celebrates after holing a long birdie on the 17th hole at TPC at Sawgrass during the third round of the 2001 Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI joke all the time that it\u2019ll probably be on the headstone on my grave,\u2019\u2019 Koch told The Post on Saturday, the 25th anniversary of the putt and the call.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTE VEDRA, Fla. \u2014 The call, like the shot, was better than most.\u00a0 It was 25 years ago,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[186,236192,427,38969,99,362,358,212845,6897],"class_list":["post-524273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-exclusive","tag-gary-koch","tag-golf","tag-nbc-sports","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-the-players-championship","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}