Dan Hicks shared the TV stage in golf and got plenty in return. Expect anything different?

Dan Hicks was at his best when he got everyone on the NBC crew involved in the telecast, and it was one of those moments that led to perhaps his most famous call in golf.Hicks, who died Wednesday at age 64 after 35 years with NBC, was in the booth for the 2008 U.S. Open. Tiger Woods, playing with shredded ligaments in his left knee and a double stress fracture in his leg, faced a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole at Torrey Pines to force a playoff.“He asked what it was like on the 18th,” Roger Maltbie, who was on the ground for NBC at Torrey Pines, said Thursday. “I said Tiger expected to make it. Everyone expected him to make it. He had that invincible aura at the time.”The putt curled in the right side and Hicks said, “Expect anything different?”It remains Hicks' most famous call in the 22 times he called the U.S. Open, and for Maltbie, it spoke to what made him so good at his craft and made it easy for everyone around him.“A very inclusive guy, always upbeat and thoughtful, treat