Remembering the famous Fred Couples hole-in-three at the Players Championship

 

In the first round of the 1999 Players Championship, fan favorite Fred Couples stepped to the tee on the world-famous, par-3, island-green 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass.

 

Like many before him — and countless thousands since then — Couples splashed his tee shot into the water. Nothing special, unique, or crazy there.

 

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But what happened next was amazing... arguably even more amazing than when Couples aced the same hole in 1997.

 

Couples re-teed and, playing his third shot, proceeded to knock that shot into the hole, on the fly, for the most unlikely of pars.

 

"I don't really know how hard I was trying on my third shot," Couples, a two-time Players Champion, admitted years later (he shot a 77 in that opening round, by the way). "If I don't make that shot, I think I shoot 80, 81 and probably miss the cut. Three days later, I was in fourth place."

 

Here's the video of that shot:

 

 

And how about the reaction from Couples? Cool as cool gets, just as you'd expect.