John Daly on Friday throughout the first spherical of the Chubb Classic.
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John Daly, carrying a blue polo and multi-colored shorts, hit one driver. He hit an iron — with a cigarette in his mouth. In the video shared by the PGA Tour Champions circuit, he was proven hitting one other driver. And one other. And one other. On the final one, he joked to somebody close by.
“Want to hit this one?” he requested as he stood over a ball.
Daly then hit.
“Just don’t hit it any better than that, OK?” he quipped.
That was how his week, and his golf yr, began for the two-time main winner, one in every of golf’s hottest gamers. Swings and a few smack.
It ended, although, with one other social media submit. Some phrases, and a single photograph. On it was a needle and a wince.
Daly was taking part in the Chubb Classic, the 50-and-over tour’s second occasion of the yr, and he appeared prepared. In his second-to-last occasion of 2023, at the Sanford International, he tied for seventh. Three months later, at the PNC Championship, an at all times entertaining occasion the place main winners play with a relative, Daly and son John Daly II tied for fifth. Last yr, Daly additionally performed the Open Championship, which he received in 1995, however shot two rounds of 77 and he missed the reduce.
On Friday, throughout the Chubb’s first spherical, Daly opened with a two-under 70. He had 5 birdies. On Saturday, throughout the second spherical, he bogeyed the 2nd gap, however he rebounded with two straight birdies.
But on the 541-yard par-5, Daly made an 11. His scorecard learn like this (*11*):
Shot 1: From the tee field
Shot 2: From the intermediate tough
Shot 3: Penalty
Drop
Shot 4: From the fairway
Shot 5: Penalty
Drop
Shot 6: From the fairway
Shot 7: Penalty
Drop
Shot 8: From the fairway
Shot 9: From the inexperienced
Shot 10: From the inexperienced
Shot 11: In the gap
From there, Daly birdied the ninth, however he bogeyed 12 and 13 (taking penalties on every), double-bogeyed 14, parred 15 (taking one other penalty), bogeyed 16 — and he was achieved. He withdrew.
John Daly was requested why he’s in style. His reply was very John Daly.
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What occurred? Back to six. He’d harm himself. On Sunday, over social media, he wrote that he struck the floor awkwardly on his second shot on the gap, and that osteoarthritis had flared up in his left hand. He mentioned he would now want “injections.”
A photograph subsequent to his phrases was proof.
There was Daly. He was wincing. A person to his proper was holding down his left arm. A person throughout from him seemed to be injecting a needle slightly below his left wrist.
But there was some excellent news.
Daly, who’s battled accidents all through his profession, wrote he’d journey to Morocco for this week’s Champions occasion.
