Daly Takes Approach from Golf According to Costner, Carding 18
The calls were predictable--”Tin Cup, Tin Cup”--and John Daly understood. “I still say they made that movie after me,” he said after carding an 18--yes, an 18--on the par-five, 543-yard sixth hole Sunday at the Bay Hill Invitational.
Kevin Costner had a similar experience in the movie.
“Driver in the water, three-wood in the water, three-wood in the water, three-wood in the water, three-wood in the water . . . how many was it, anyway?” Daly said of trying to cut the dogleg.
It was six, according to playing partner Paul Goydos, dealing with higher math while keeping Daly’s card in a round of 85.
Daly cleared the water on his seventh shot, but it plugged in the hazard. He took a drop, and his six-iron into the green landed in the rocks and ricocheted into a bunker. He blasted out and two-putted for an 18, then found a silver lining.
“I got a hell of a lot of practice with my three-wood,” he said.
And a birdie two on the next hole.
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