PGA Championship 2022: To nobody's surprise, John Daly is the most surprising man at Southern Hills
Fast play, it turned out, might have been the key to this early success. On the seventh hole, I heard a quiet voice behind me urging Micheel to hurry up as he stalked his ball in the left rough. This, it turned out, was Daly's daughter—I never caught if it was Shynah or Sierra—and she went on to explain that at his home course, Daly often completes a round in 45 minutes to an hour. When he has to wait, his mind intrudes, and she went on to claim that this was the reason he failed to sign his scorecard despite being relatively close to the lead at the Regions Tradition last Friday on the PGA Tour Champions. According to her, this was not a forgetful error, but a targeted protest at slow play—"he was making a point," she said, although it's not clear that he told anyone publicly. On one hole, he apparently had to wait so long that he changed his club three times with shifting winds. Nor does the cart help matters; he needs it, but it only gets him to his ball faster, giving him more time to wait.
