Sorry John Daly! Coolum won again.
The winner of The Australian PGA Championship will receive the shinning dollar amount of $ 270,000.00 while the runner-up will get $ 153,000.00 as prize money. As for John Daly, the forty four year old is currently at the 144th
position, getting nothing, distressing the masses to a new level and making the tour officials anxious for verbal abuse once again.
The second round of the PGA Championship went all haywire for Daly yesterday as he played at the Hyatt Regency Coolum with a catastrophic 83 in round 2. The American golfer thus dropped down to T 144 after he bogeyed and bogeyed
and then bogeyed some more for an 11 up.
According to statistics, the forty four year old collected a total of 154 strokes with a respectable first round. The round 1 of the championship witnessed Daly carding a decent 71 with birdies occurring four times. The collection
began from hole number one and two and continued till the 15th and 17th having pars amounting to 11.
So it was all good at the Sunshine coast till the forty four year old reduced his pars to 10 and wrestled with the water, the bunker and his lackadaisical attitude in the second round of the championship.
The round went with one lone birdie and was filled with the likes of a triple bogey, three double bogeys and then finally three more bogeys. Quite the opposite of his first round start, R1 experienced back-to-back birdie starts
that later translated into a bogey set off for the R2.
Moving back in history for a while, Daly’s last luckless appearance at the Coolum was in the year 2002 where he verbally abused one tour officials, threw his ball and his putter in the water, fell short of signing his score card
and was then eventually disqualified.
Other than facing a DQ, the twenty four year old golfer was fined a dollar amount of $ 5,600 and was asked to apologize to the verbally abused official with a written admission of guilt.
With such a history, many fans and critics alike wondered what the Daly-Coolum rivalry will bring out this time and as expected Coolum won. The American failed to make the cut and is now ineligible to play the weekend.
The American golfer carded an 11 over and failed with a deficit of one stroke, all owing to the bogeys. The first bogey appeared at the hole number one with a back to back double bogey dilemma appearing at the third and fourth.
With one double bogey at the 8th, the 11th hole handed him just a lone bogey that changed to a double bogey at the 14th along with the final bogey appearing at the 16th hole.
Daly was playing alongside Robert Allenby and Liang Wenchong, both of whom carded an impressive 68 as compared to Daly’s 83.
With Daly’s 14th hole shot dropping in the water, his chances to make the cut also drowned with his ball and he faced one of his worst meltdowns from the record till date failing to make the cut.
Thankfully none of the Tour officials were harmed, verbally or physically, in the process.
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