John Daly is no stranger to high scores and his 75 in the opening round of the Senior PGA Championship on Thursday was 15 shots under that PGA Tour career-high 90 he shot at the 2014 Valspar Championship.
John Daly’s first blowup on the Champions Tour is a quintuple bogey
Daly’s wild seven-hole ride ends with a quintuple-bogey 9.
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But that quintuple-bogey on the par-4 16th in his first start in a Champions Tour major was, Big John fans will have to admit, vintage John Daly. After rinsing his tee shot, Daly’s third shot ended up dry but deep in the weeds.
We’ll let the play-by-play guys take it from here:
The nine was just half of his personal and PGA Tour worst single-hole score of 18 on Bay Hill’s par-5 sixth in 1998 and a shot better than that 2015 PGA Championship 10 on the par-3 seventh during which he flung the offending stick into Lake Michigan.
This time around -- in his third Champions Tour start -- Daly’s quint ended a roller-coaster ride of birdie-bogey-birdie-bogey-quintuple on his third through seventh holes of the day. Four birdies, two bogeys and a double on his second nine came to 4-over for the day, which put him four shots south of the projected cut line and 13 strokes back of 18-hole leader Rocco Mediate, who flirted with a 59 before settling for a flawless 62.
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