As you get older, you start to lose some of your skills. In golf, the trade of age for experience doesn’t need to be a dramatic drop off because of the “thinking man” nature of the game. That’s what makes John Daly’s journey to the over-50 circuit so interesting to watch.
Long John is a little longer in the tooth, but he’s still got a lot of the gifts that earned him a pair of major championships in his regular Touring days. And arguably, once Daly gets comfortable with life on the PGA Tour Champions, he could definitely be a force to be reckoned with. Case in point: this week at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in Endicott, N.Y.
JD showed off multiple times that he still has his biggest gift — his length — with a pair of bombed drivers that led to twp birdies on the last three holes to close out his first round.
No. 16 at En-Joie Golf Club is a 321-yard par-4, which for Daly is just a long par-3.
✔️ Drive the green
✔️ Two-putt for birdieJohn Daly gets back to 4-under at En-Joie. https://t.co/eyjsEraQBf
— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) July 8, 2016
No. 18, on the other hand, is a 419-yard big-boy par-4, that Daly hit a 350-yard drive on and got up and down for birdie.
Those 350-yard drives in the fairway tend to lead to birdies.
Here’s how John Daly finished Round 1 @dicksopengolf. https://t.co/1HW9IWSiZP
— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) July 8, 2016
Watch out, old guys, Wild Thing may just be on to something.
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