# Tiger Woods says goodbye to Dan Hicks after broadcasting legend called iconic career moments

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tiger-woods-says-goodbye-to-dan-hicks-after-broadcasting-legend-called-iconic-career-moments/
- Published: 2026-11-13T18:58:03+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T19:25:14+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/13/sports/tiger-woods-says-goodbye-to-dan-hicks-after-broadcasting-legend-called-iconic-career-moments/
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Tiger Woods remembered commentator Dan Hicks as a close friend.
- Hicks led NBC’s PGA Tour coverage for 26 years.
- His calls included Woods’s 2008 US Open victory.

## Summary

Tiger Woods has paid tribute to Dan Hicks, the veteran NBC Sports commentator who died this week aged 64 after an acute illness. Woods described Hicks as a close friend whose warmth and work had made a lasting mark on golf broadcasting.

Hicks led NBC’s PGA Tour coverage for 26 years and worked with Johnny Miller for nearly two decades. He also called Notre Dame football and covered 16 Olympic Games; among his best-known golf assignments was Woods’s 2008 US Open victory after a 19-hole play-off with Rocco Mediate. The PGA Tour and Woods offered condolences to Hicks’s wife, Hannah, and their daughters.

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