U.S. golfing wild child today hit the skids big time. Playing on the first day of the Australian Open, Daly worked his way to the ninth, where the wheels suddenly fell off his game. On the three par hole, he scored a double bogey, but this was just the beginning of a torrid run. Onto the tenth, he drove into a bunker, then hit the wrong ball on his next shot, a mistake that cost him a two shot penalty. The stink was on. A rather heated head to head then ensued with an official. Of course he came out on the wrong side of things. Now seeing red, he three putted for a triple bogey. He'd just dropped five shots in the last two holes. Onto the next hole, the eleventh. He must have been spinning by now. His second shot on the par five landed in the water. He must have been livid. He tried again, same deal...the water. He tried again, and again. Twice more he hit the water. Never a man to handle pressure too well, he lined up again, yep you guessed it, water. He tried once more. His ball drowned. That was it for Big John Daley. He stormed off the course. His invitation for the Australian PGA to be played next week has already been withdrawn. Sanctions are being called for. To make matters worse, he now has an uncanny resemblance to Shane Warne. How ****ed is that?
Earlier this summer I played golf with my son. First hole - my drive ended up a yard behind the narrowest tree on the course, directly in line with the pin. My 2nd shot hit the tree. The ball shot back, hit me and landed in the exact same spot, much to my son's amusement. My 3rd shot -hit the bloody tree and came back at me ! By now my son has ( actually ) split his trousers as he went into an uncontrollable fit of hysterical laughter.
Funniest thing I saw on a golf course was in Spain. A guy on the opposite fairway to us drove a golf buggy up to his ball which was perched on the edge of a lake. The lazy git drove right up to the very edge and jumped out. These buggies normally stop pretty much immediately when you take your foot off the gas, but this one had just enough momentum to take it over the edge and into the lake. My mates and I were pissing ourselves as it slowly sank beneath the surface. The guy's mates went mental because their clubs were on the back. When we were playing back up the way, we saw a tractor towing the buggy back to the clubhouse with water still streaming off of it and all sorts of plants and fronds draped over it.
Well - that's what you get for using a driver incorrectly ! ( my jokes are about as good/bad as my golf )
It was one of those days ! And when I say a tree - it was a mere sapling - no more than 2" wide. If I aimed for it, I would not have hit it in a million years - let alone in consecutive shots ! Still, my son had a good laugh. - You have to accept it sometimes and be able to laugh at yourself.
