PGA Tour: NBC announcers for Players Championship include Roger Maltbie, Gary Koch return

• Golf commentators Roger Maltbie and Gary Koch will return to NBC's broadcast team for The Players Championship.
• The duo will join lead announcer Dan Hicks and analyst Kevin Kisner for the tournament at TPC Sawgrass from March 13-16.
• Maltbie and Koch previously served as on-course announcers for The Players until 2022.

Roger and Gary will be back at The Players Championship.

NBC is bringing two of its fan favorites as golf commentators, Roger Maltbie and Gary Koch, to The Players March 13-16 at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass to work with lead announcer Dan Hicks and analyst Kevin Kisner. NBC announced its broadcast lineup on Wednesday as the network begins seven weeks of golf coverage with the Mexico Open.

The PGA Tour's Florida Swing begins next week with the Cognizant Classic at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens.

Maltbie and Koch were on-course announcers at The Players until 2022 when NBC announced it was changing its broadcast lineup. After an outcry from fans, the network has been bringing the two back for select tournaments, starting with last year's Players.

Koch will also work the Valspar Championship March 20-23 near his hometown in Tampa.

Maltbie, a four-time PGA Tour winner, has charmed TV viewers for decades with his self-deprecating wit and dry humor. Koch has still made the most memorable call in Players history for the Tigers Woods" Better Than Most" putt in the third round at No. 17 in the 2001 Players.

Hicks will work his 25th Players Championship as NBC's leader announcer. Producer Tommy Roy, a Ponte Vedra Beach resident, is working at his 33rd Players.

Former PGA Tour player Smylie Kaufman will return with his "Happy Hour with Smylie" during the Friday afternoon Golf Channel broadcasts.