John Daly
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John Daly removed his name from the field on Monday of the PGA Championship. The next alternate, Stephan Jaeger, will take his spot.
The 1991 PGA Championship winner has nothing better than a T38 in five tries on the Champions circuit this season. He twirled a T65 last week at the Regions Tradition. He's also missed the cut in eight straight attempts at the PGA Championship. He was far off the fantasy radar but gamers should certainly take a look at his replacement, Stephan Jaeger, who arrives fresh off a trio of top 30s.
The expectations were low for John Daly and David Duval in the Zurich Classic, and they managed to exceed them. But not in a good way.
After making one birdie and shooting 3-over 75 in Day 1 fourballs, Daly and Duval shot 11-over 83 in Friday foursomes at TPC Louisiana. The two sponsor's invites tallied four double-bogeys, four bogeys and one birdie to record the worst-ever score in this event's alternate-shot format (dating to 2017). At 14 over par, they were alone in last place, 14 shots removed from the next worst team.
Out of the final group, Team Daly hung up a week-tying-low 15-under-par 28-29=57 in the final round of the PNC Championship to post a tournament-record 27-under 117, good for a two-shot win over runners-up Team Woods, who also fired a closing 57.
In the 24th playing of the PNC, John, 55, and son John II, 18, claim victory in their sixth appearance, birdieing two of their final three holes for the final margin, including a walk-off birdie-4. Their prior best was T2 three tries ago in 2018 (59-62), and signed for rounds of 60-57 this week. The Daly's, who began the day in a two-way T2, one short of playing competitors Team Cink (61), rang up 13 birdies and an eagle en route to the victory. In all, they totaled 23 birdies and two eagles versus no dropped shots, eclipsing the previous tournament scoring record of 26-under 118 by Davis Love III and Dru Love in 2018, which was three clear of the Daly's aforementioned runner-up. See link below to post-round comments from the winners.
John Daly and son John II walked off with eagle toward a 12-under-par 29-31=60 in Round 1 of the PNC Championship in Orlando, good for a two-way T2.
John, 55, and John II, 18, are one shy of leaders Stewart and Reagan Cink, who they'll be with in the final group on Sunday, scheduled out at 11:12 am ET. Their best finish among five prior visits is T2, three back, in 2018, after being the 18-hole leaders by one (59-62). John II, who played in one event as a freshman at Arkansas in the fall of 2021, did the majority of the heavy-lifting today, particularly on the putting surfaces, including canning the eagle at the par-5 last, setup by dad's most memorable approach shot of the day.
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