A day after Butch Harmon fired John Daly, John received another big disappointment. He had played in the Monday Pro-AM at Bay Hill and was asked to play in the Wednesday pro-am too. He was playing on a sponsor's exemption. But when he called in on Tuesday and asked for his tee time, he was given a starting time of 9:47 a.m. What he got was his Thursday tournament time. His Wednesday time was actually 8:40 a.m.
In Arnie's tournament, if you miss the pro-am tee time you don't get to play the Invitational. So when John arrived that morning, he was told he was disqualified from the tournament. Bummer.
"I didn't even know that was my Thursday tee time," Daly said. "I should have looked into it. It stinks for me. I want to do anything I can for the tournament as a sponsor exemption. I wanted to meet the people I was playing with in the pro-am. I love Arnold Palmer to death. I called and talked to him and apologized
"And the thing that upsets me is I cost Nick O'Hern and Ryuji Imada, so now I got these guys mad at me, too."Imada and O'Hern were alternates for the pro-am, and both thought they were assigned to the afternoon group. Instead, they were the first two names called when Daly didn't show, and when neither was around, they also were disqualified from the $5.8 million event.
Well, this is Sunday and Tiger just spiked his hat at 18. More on that later... Marion
March 17 -- Here's a little update on the above.
After calling Arnold Palmer to help set it up, John Daly played the Celebration golf course Sunday with three UBS sponsors to make up for his missed Pro-Am tee time Wednesday that disqualified him from the Arnold Palmer Invitational, according to a tournament official.
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