You could call this tribute, “Better than most.”
On Friday, tournament officials placed the pin on the par-3 17th in the front left portion of the green, six paces from the front and four from the left. It’s precisely where the hole was during the third round of the 2001 Players Championship, when Tiger Woods holed one of the best putts of his career.
On that Saturday afternoon, the now 15-time major winner faced a 60-foot putt for birdie, which featured a triple break and quite the journey down the slope. A three-putt seemed plausible, but Woods, of course, holed it, with Gary Koch of NBC Sports saying on
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