{"id":21513,"date":"2017-05-08T12:13:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/one-year-on-champions-tour-breakthrough-for-john-daly\/"},"modified":"2017-05-08T12:13:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:13:31","slug":"one-year-on-champions-tour-breakthrough-for-john-daly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/one-year-on-champions-tour-breakthrough-for-john-daly\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year On… Champions Tour Breakthrough for John Daly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John Daly made his PGA Champions Tour debut one year ago, in the Insperity Invitational. Many observers would have expected the five-time regular tour champion (including two majors, the 1991 PGA Championship and 1995 British Open) to make a fairly immediate mark after turning 50, even though his most recent victory had been as far back as the 2004 Buick Invitational. <\/p>\n

It wasn’t to be, however, with his breakthrough win eventually coming in his 22nd start and one year later, in the same tournament, the Insperity at The Woodlands in Texas. Daly shot a final-round three-under 69 to finish 14-under and win by one shot over Tommy Armour III and Kenny Perry (Miguel Angel Jimenez, who won on his Champions debut in 2014, finished joint seventh, six shots back). <\/p>\n

“It’s just awesome,” said Daly, who wore pants in the style of the American flag on Sunday. “I want to let all my sponsors know that I love them and thank them for everything.<\/p>\n

“These finishing holes are so hard. I didn’t hit the irons very good these last two days. I drove the ball tremendously with my Vertical Groove driver. And I putted so good. I just kind of hung in there and did the best I could. It wasn’t pretty at the end, but I got it done. That’s all that matters. <\/p>\n

“Some guys come out here and win right off the bat, get the monkey off their back, but now I can say I’m a champion on the PGA Tour Champions. It’s really cool and hopefully I can keep this confidence going.”<\/p>\n

Daly’s previous best finish on the tour had been joint 11th at last year’s DICK’S Sporting Goods Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Daly made his PGA Champions Tour debut one year ago, in the Insperity Invitational. Many observers would have expected the five-time regular tour champion (including two majors, the 1991 PGA Championship and 1995 British Open) to make a fairly immediate mark after turning 50, even though his most recent victory had been as far […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}