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The Open: 8 photos of John Daly’s wild outfits in first 2 rounds

John Daly’s fashion choices continue to wow.

Sadly, we’re likely not going to get to see more of John Daly  at the 2022 Open Championship.

He shot a 2-over on Friday for a 3-over total over the first two days at St. Andrews for the former champion, and with the cut line projected to be even par, he’s looking like he’ll miss.

But luckily, we got to see two more days’ worth of sartorial choices that had everyone talking, especially after what we saw during the practice rounds at the Old Course.

So, here you go: A look at his orange number from Friday and a purple-ish pair of pants in the first round:

Photos: John Daly’s wild outfits at the 2022 British Open at St. Andrews

Daly took his signature style to the Old Course.

When we last visited with John Daly, he was (very briefly) leading the 2022 PGA Championship and showing off his usual wild sartorial choices.

And this week, at the 2022 British Open at St. Andrews, the 1995 British Open champion is back, getting ready to tee it up at the Old Course.

So far, on Monday and Tuesday, we’ve only seen a couple of his iconic fits, but they’ve been eye-popping with a pink-patterned pair of pants to go with a blue shirt, and a pair of black and white skull-and-flower shorts.

We’ll see what he’s got cooked up for later this week soon enough. Just enjoy what he wore so far:

8 photos of John Daly’s wild outfits during British Open practice

John Daly is back at the British Open and so are his wild sartorial choices.

When we last visited with John Daly, he was (very briefly) leading the 2022 PGA Championship and showing off his usual wild sartorial choices.

And this week, at St. Andrews, the 1995 British Open champion is back, getting ready to tee it up at the Old Course.

So far, on Monday and Tuesday, we’ve only seen a couple of his iconic fits, but they’ve been eye-popping with a pink-patterned pair of pants to go with a blue shirt, and a pair of black and white skull-and-flower (!) shorts.

We’ll see what he’s got cooked up for later this week soon enough. Just enjoy what he wore so far:

Photos: Bridgestone Senior Players Championship at Firestone CC

Players appear to be enjoying themselves at the fourth and penultimate senior major of the season. 

Steve Stricker held the trophy over his head at the 2021 Bridgestone Senior Players Championship and is one of the 80 in the field for the 2022 event at Firestone Country Club.

Stricker is defending his championship in the last Senior Players Championship with Bridgestone as the main sponsor. The 2023 tournament will be sponsored by Kaulig Companies.

Stricker led wire-to-wire in winning the 2021 tournament and endured a life-threatening illness in the months that followed.

Who will win the final Bridgestone Senior Players Championship? It’s up for grabs, but players appear to be enjoying themselves at the fourth and penultimate senior major of the season.

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Watch: A barefoot John Daly hit a golf ball over an Ohio highway onto high school football field

The Ohio Department of Transportation says: “Driving on the interstate should be limited to vehicles.”

When Matt Considine grew up in Akron, Ohio, he spent time as a student staring out of a third-story window while attending Archbishop Hoban High School thinking about his view of a perfect golf shot.

His vision was hitting a ball from the school across Interstate 76 onto the school’s football field.

Considine’s dream became a reality this week.

On Tuesday, Considine posted a video of a barefooted John Daly, in town this week for the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship, hitting the shot over Interstate 76, onto the football field.

Considine now lives in Chicago and is the founder of The NewClub Golf society.

“He’s got way too much club, no more than a 9 iron to the first goal post and 3 iron to the second,” Considine tweeted. “All downhill with a crosswind that trends to help a draw.”

Daly is paired with Jesper Parnevik and Shane Bertsch for the first two days at Bridgestone.

Meanwhile, Ohio Department of Transportation spokesman Matt Bruning cautioned others about trying to copy Daly’s shot.

“Driving on the interstate should be limited to vehicles,” Bruning said. “Unfortunately there’s no mulligan if a ball goes astray and hits a moving vehicle at full speed.”

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Leading the PGA Championship, Hooters and the slots: Just an average week for John Daly

He missed the cut, but Daly had quite the week in Tulsa.

TULSA, Okla. — When John Daly won the 1991 PGA Championship at Crooked Stick near Indianapolis as the ninth alternate, he donated $30,000 to the family of a spectator struck by lightning at the tournament. At the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills, Daly donated a reported $30,000 to the local casino in town.

As soon as he finished his first round on Thursday, he blew off reporters just as he skipped out on the Champions dinner on Tuesday and high-tailed it to Hooters, the restaurant chain where his son John III, who plays golf at his dad’s alma mater, Arkansas, has a NIL deal. Then it was off to the casino, where he had an extra pack of cigarettes on standby and guzzled diet coke. A photo of him playing the slots drew even the likes of TMZ to write a story.

As one spectator put it, “Has there ever been a character like John Daly?”

The answer is a resounding no. Ever since Daly, 56, was diagnosed with bladder cancer he’s been living for the moment. On Thursday, Daly actually held the lead at the 104th PGA Championship for a hot minute with birdies on two of the first five holes. But the wheels fell off late in the round with bogeys on four of the last five holes to shoot 2-over 72. Still, he beat World No. 2 Jon Rahm, reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year Patrick Cantlay, and 15-time major champion Tiger Woods. Playing the weekend was a real possibility.

“John has so much talent, so much feel,” said former PGA Championship winner Shaun Micheel, who was grouped with Daly.

Since 2019, the PGA of America has granted Daly, who suffers from osteoarthritis in his right knee, the use of a cart under the American Disabilities Act. His caddie still had to carry the bag and after the round complained that he lugged an umbrella for nothing.

“Helluva tough week,” said Peter Van Der Riet.

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Not so for Daly, belly bulging, in his bright red Loudmouth pants, zipping down fairways in his Club Car cart with a diet coke and an oversized cup in cupholders.

“He who has the fastest cart has the best life,” a fan said.

“I’ve got a vodka for you when the rounds over,” another bellowed. 

“Does the guy really smoke a pack a round?” a third fan wondered. “Unreal. What a legend.”

Daly rolled in a 22-foot birdie putt at No. 11, his second hole of the day on Friday, but he rinsed a ball in the water at No. 2, made bogey to slip to 5-over and played out the string. Even when he dunked another ball at the seventh and made a double bogey, the fans still cheered him as he huffed and puffed back to the cart.

At his final hole, he lined his approach over the green and faced a seemingly hopeless attempt to finish with a par. Not wanting to waste any energy, he didn’t bother with a practice swing. He stepped up, chopped at the ball and nearly holed it.

“We love you John,” a male spectator screamed.

After signing for 6-over 76 – four strokes too many – a PGA media official reminded him that he’d see him next week for the Senior PGA Championship.

“Another week, another cow pasture,” Daly muttered.

Then he stormed off like a man hungry for an all-you-can-eat casino buffet. He hopped into his cart and parked it next to his black Cadillac courtesy car without ever stopping in the clubhouse to change his shoes. Daly’s act may have grown old but golf’s one-of-a-kind character rode off in search of his next payday.

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Scottie Scheffler headlines list of golfers who missed the cut at the 2022 PGA Championship

The World’s No. 1 player and Masters champion is heading home early from Southern Hills.

TULSA, Okla. – The cut line was every bit the attention grabber in Friday’s second round of the PGA Championship as was the first page of the leaderboard.

The winds whipping off the Oklahoma plains weren’t as ferocious as feared but strong enough to help bounce the projected cut line up and down most of the day as players yearned for par at Southern Hills Country Club.

In the calm of the end of the round, the cut fell at 4-over 144. The top 70 plus ties made it through to the weekend.

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World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler does not. But four-time Wanamaker Trophy winner and 15-time major champion Tiger Woods does.

Woods, who won the 2007 PGA Championship here, grinded his way to the weekend on his bad right leg and birdied two of his final six holes to move from one shot outside the cutline to one shot below. His 69 left him at 3 over.

“Coming back here to a place that I’ve had success on, to play against the best players in the world, that’s what we all want to be able to do,” Woods said. “Fortunately enough, I’m able to somehow do it. I’ve had a great staff that have put Humpty Dumpty back together, and we’ll go out there tomorrow, and hopefully tomorrow I can do something like what Bubba did today.”

Bubba Watson shot 63 in the second round. With rounds of 70-72, Shane Lowry extended the longest active streak of cuts made in major to 12. Will Zalatoris leads after two rounds.

However, here are those who were less fortunate and headed home.

A bettor could win $100,000 if John Daly wins the PGA Championship

One bettor could earn big money if John Daly wins the PGA Championship!

A bettor woke up this morning and decided it was the perfect day to place $100 on John Daly to win the PGA Championship, a wager that would win $100,000.

Is this simply a low-risk, high-reward bet? Or does this bettor actually think the 56-year-old golfer has a legitimate shot to pull off his first PGA Championship win since 1991?

It might be a combination of both. While Daly’s odds are appropriately long, he did begin the tournament briefly at the top of the leaderboards through two holes (-1). But he’d end his day with three straight bogeys to move to 2-over par and finish with an opening-round score of 72.

Potentially three more days of sweating it out for this optimistic bettor.

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Golf fans were flipping out over John Daly leading early at the 2022 PGA Championship

WHOA.

OK, look: By the time you read this, John Daly — the 1991 PGA Championship winner — may not, in fact, be on top of the leaderboard at Southern Hills.

But for a few glorious minutes on Thursday morning in the first round, the man known for his wild attire was actually right up there among the leaders. As of writing this he was 2-under through six, which is all great, but like a thousand golfers have yet to tee off and a bunch of others were in the middle of beginning their rounds.

Whatever, we can still say Daly led at the PGA Championship, and golf fans were pumped:

Steve Stricker leads, John Daly DQ’d at 2022 Regions Tradition

Steve Stricker holds the lead but John Daly won’t be around for the weekend at the PGA Tour Champions major.

Scott McCarron shot a 65 to post his best score in two years.

Steve Stricker continues to make a remarkable return from a mysterious illness.

And John Daly was disqualified after failing to sign his scorecard.

It all made for an interesting second round at the first PGA Tour Champions major of the 2022 season, the Regions Tradition.

Daly shot a 68 on Thursday which marked just his second sub-70 in 19 rounds so far this year. Friday he played the back nine first alongside Steve Flesch and Rocco Mediate and he was 4 under through 11 holes. But he double bogeyed the par-3 seventh and then finished his round with another double on the par-4 ninth for a 72. His 4 under score after two days had him in a tie for 16th before the DQ. It’s the first time he’s been DQ’d from a PGA Tour Champions event.

Stricker, the first-round leader at the Regions Tradition, battled an illness that is still a mystery about six months ago that put him in the hospital for 11 days. The winning Ryder Cup captain is playing in his third tournament in three weeks since his return and has a tie for second and a tie for 10th so far. A win this week would be his fifth major title on the PGA Tour Champions. His second-round 68 has him in the lead again, two shots ahead of McCarron and Padraig Harrington.

For McCarron, this week also marks the return to contention as he had surgery on his left ankle last year. After opening with a 70 on Thursday, he fired a 65 on Friday to tie Stricker for low round of the week so far at Greystone Golf & Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama.

Playing the back nine first, McCarron had four straight birdies on Nos. 12-15 and then had another on 17 before a bogey on his ninth hole. The 65 is his best score this season by four shots.

This is his ninth event in 2022 and his best finish is a tie for 34th at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai in January.

Ernie Els is solo fourth at 8 under after back-to-back 68s. Miguel Angel Jimenez is tied for fifth with Stuart Appleby and Steven Alker at 7 under.

Seeing Alker in the mix is no surprise. Since joining the senior circuit in August of 2021, Alker has 13 top-10s and nine top-5s in just 16 starts. He has also pushed his career earnings on the senior circuit above the $2 million mark.

The New Zealander has two wins and a tie for second in his last three starts. He didn’t play last week so that he could attend his son’s high school graduation but he’s back, doing what he does, climbing leaderboards.

Last week’s winner, Flesch, is in a large group of golfers at 6 under, tied for eighth.

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