Monday, May 11, 2009

DARING JOHN DALY

When everybody talks about Stenson triumph and on how Tiger’s and the rest falter in Stadium course TPC, a few of us notice on how’s our problem child charging back from 11th place with a 5-under 66 in the final round in Italian Open last Sunday.

Wearing “batik” and multi colour trouser, he is playing in his second tournament on the European Tour since the break, Daly shot a 31 on the back nine with birdies at the 11th, 14th, 16th and 17th holes, and was six strokes off the lead. The 66 was the fifth consecutive round in which Daly has broken 70.

It was his first top 10 finish since 2005 and all the news he has made since then pointed to someone going off the rails again. Sharing second place with England's Robert Rock and Frenchman Raphael Jacquelin will certainly help. It earned him more than £86,000.

Banned by the US Tour for six months last November after he was thrown in jail to sober up and down at 794th in the world, there were those - many, in fact - who reckoned Daly was done and dusted as a golfer.

Not bad for unwanted golfer who was appeared just outside Augusta National last month, selling his own merchandise from a trailer outside Augusta National while The Masters went on and he did not deny he was in dire need of money.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

interesting.. anyway, hi there! =)