NBC BRINGS BACK MALTBIE & KOCH FOR PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

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2021 Players Championship champion Rory McIlroy with the trophy.

NBC is ramping up for next weeks Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.

Because this years edition is the 50th playing of the championship.

Sadly course designers Pete and Alice Dye have passed away. But it wasn’t too late for NBC to bring back announcers and course reporter Roger Maltbie and Gary Koch as part of the networks broadcast team.

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NBC’s Dan Hicks will be joined in the TV booth with Kevin Kisner as the analyst.

But during Round 2 on Friday, Kisner will team up with Smylie Kaufman, and the two will call “Happy Hour” from alongside the the 17th hole.

The Par-3 Island Green.

NBC Announced they were happy with Kisner’s work earlier in the year during the Phoenix Open.

THE GOLF CHANNEL and NBC will wall-to-wall coverage of the Players Championship all week long.

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Rory spent over 8 years growing up working at Rob Roy Golf Club in Prospect Hts.IL, then two years at Chevy Chase in Wheeling. He has covered golf in Chicago since 1986. Rory was one of the initial members of WSCR all-sports radio Chicago and covered golf there for 5 seasons, before moving on to work for ESPN/Sportsticker and ESPN Radio. In addition to hosting Golfers on Golf Radio on WCPT AM820 Chicago, he writes for both the Chicago District (CDGA) Magazine, and formerly Chicagoland Golf. Rory has played over 525 courses in 39 states, and rates golf courses. He does golf course management and communications consulting, within the golf industry.