UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, August 18, 1997
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Daly finishes PGA on a rough note
Golfer argues with tour official
The Associated Press
MAMARONECK, N.Y. — John Daly's rocky return to major championship golf took another bumpy twist Saturday when he engaged in a sharp verbal exchange with a rules official in the final round of the PGA.
The tense confrontation came one day after Daly tossed his driver over a fence on the 12th hole after a wild tee shot.
Daly, trying to drive the 324-yard sixth green, hit an extreme hook that ended up behind a rain shelter near the seventh tee Saturday. He had an angle to the green, but his line of sight to the pin was obstructed.
A PGA Championship rules official was called in, but Daly was denied relief because the shelter was an immovable obstruction.
Daly asked to appeal to a PGA Tour official but was denied.
"I had something like this at Hartford and got a drop," Daly said to PGA Championship rules official Ed Hoard.
"You guys are making differentrulings every day. This is ridiculous."
Daly hit a flip shot from the rough short of the green, then chipped up and missed his putt and made a bogey.
Hoard used his radio to contact PGA Tour rules official Mike Shea before denying Daly's request for an
appeal.
"Mike Shea is not coming," Hoard told Daly. "I am chairman of the rules committee for this tournament."
Daly finished the front nine with a 36 and was 7 over par for the tournament. Leaders Justin Leonard and Davis Love III started the final round at 7 under par.
The PGA Championship is run by the PGA of America and not the PGA Tour, which has jurisdiction of all but the major championship events — the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and PGA.
"A PGA Tour official can not get involved in a ruling unless he is a member of the rules committee for the PGA Championship," PGA of America official Terry McSweeney said.
He started the PGA with a 66 , stayed in contention with a 73, then fell out with a 77 when he was spraying his tee shots wildly.
Daly, continuing a return from his second stay in an alcohol rehabilitation center, was playing in his first major championship since walking off the course after nine holes of the second round at the U.S. Open.
Daly made a double bogey on the sixth hole in the third round when he tried to drive the green and missed it in the right rough, dumped his next shot into the bunker, blasted out and three putted.
Most players use an iron off the tee on No. 6 and then go at the green with a full sand wedge shot they could spin into the difficult green.
Seles advances to final
Top seed seeks third du Maurier title
The Associated Press
"I played well but I also had spurs of terrible play when she started playing well," Seles said. "When I needed, I made some great shots."
Seles, the top seed, dropped the opening game to the upstart Spaniard and had the late-arriving crowd in doubt. But Seles broke Martinez the next game, climbing back from a 15-40 deficit, and took a 5-1 lead en route to a 6-2, 7-6 (8-6) victory.
TORONTO — Her game may have arrived fashionably late, but when Monica Seles decided to dispatch Cecchita Martinez in the du Maurier Open semifinal, she did it with style.
Martinez beat Seles three weeks ago for the first time in 12 tries, and said the key was to remain aggressive.
On the road to her third du Maurier final — aiming to be the first to win three consecutive titles — Seles has shown a penchant for going into corners and keeping her foes on the run.
"I started out real good (last time), but it took me longer to get into the match," Martinez said. "I came close in the second set, and in the third,
you never know."
In the other semifinal, Anke Huber qualified for her first du Maurier final when Mary Joe Fernandez withdrew after losing the second set.
Monica Seles
Fernandez won the opening set but dropped the next one to Huber, who came back in the quarterfinal against South Africa's Amanda Coetzer.
After a visit from her trainer, Fernandez had one eye on her right wrist and the other on the U.S. Open, only a week away, and called it quits, which means she also forfeited her doubles quarterfinal with partner Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.
Fernandez cited a recurring tendinitis problem that grew worse as the week grew older at York University's National Tennis Center.
"I didn't think her injury was going to be that bad," Huber said. "She was hitting quite well; it's a pity."
"I started a bit slow but my serve was already a little bit better by the end of the first set. It was hard for me to get into the match, but I played better once I found my rhythm.
Golf with Woods full of possibilities
Chances taken add excitement
The Associated Press
By Jim Litke
MAMARONECK, N.Y. — For sheer excitement, he is still your man.
Nobody is talking Grand Slam any more, the way they did after the kid smoked the field at the Masters by a dozen strokes. But Tiger Woods can still raise a fuss on any golf course, anytime, anywhere.
Because he never, ever does anything — cue Tina Turner here — nice and easy.
Woods shot a second round of even-par 70 at the PGA Championship. That was good enough to make it into the weekend, but too far down the leaderboard to make the Lees, Davises and Costantinos perched near the top lie awake.
The second round featured not just chances, but enough chills and spills to make some golfers' week. At the first, a 446-yard, par-4, Woods hit 3-wood and maybe wedge to a foot. One under. At the second, a 411-yard, par-4, it was 2-iron and maybe wedge again to 4 feet. Two under. Then the real fun began.
Hero shots are rarely smart shots, but when you're 21 and the world is alive with all kinds of possibilities, there is plenty of time to be smart. And so, at No. 3, after pulling an iron left into the spinach 50 feet from the pin, Woods tried not one, but two heroes shots. The first, a full-swing flop shot, only got as far as the light spinach on the collar of the other side of the green. The second, a putt with a 3-wood that he fully expected to make, left Woods to clean up a 4-footer coming back just to save bogey.
On the very next hole, Woods drove the ball into the right rough. But instead of the conservative play back to the fairway, he took a vicious rip with an 7-iron from 168 yards. He dislodged a divot the size of Long Island before the ball came to rest 15 feet from the cup.
Chastened?
Not.
So it went all the way around. Plenty of people inside the game shake their heads when Woods turns holes into adventures, but his galleries can't get enough of it.
OPINION
Because of a grandstand erected alongside the 11th green, after putting out, the players head for the No. 12 tee while their caddies take a
shortcut through the crowd to make their way down the fairway. So well-known is Woods' caddle, Fluff Cowan, that he needed his own police escort to get there. So big was the gallery by that point that Woods' own mother had no idea whether her son was still on the tee.
"Fluff," she called out from behind the ropes, "has he hit vet?"
"Yeah," the caddie grunted,
"left rough."
And with that, Cowan stubbed out a cigarette, swung the bag around and took off in pursuit of his man. As it turned out, there was no need to hurry.
No. 12 is a par-5, 540 yards,
and Woods still had at least
230 yards to negotiate. He had
a good lie in the rough, but a
stand of trees 40 yards in
front of him and all along the
left side. He also had mischievous smile on his face.
On Thursday, Woods made double-bogey at the hole attempting a different kind of hero shot. But he was clearly considering trying another. First he asked Cowan where the pin was positioned on a green he couldn't see. Then, when he motioned in the direction of a marshall, there were mischievous smiles all around.
Assured that it was, Woods went through his checklist one more time, but scrubbed the mission at the last moment. Instead, he lofted an 8-iron over the trees, hit sand wedge onto the green and left the birdie putt hanging on the lip. After all that, it was just another one of those chances he failed to cash in.
"John," the marshall whispered into a walkie-talkie, "is the green clear up ahead?"
"The important thing," Woods stressed again, "is to keep giving myself chances."
With chances come possibilities, and with possibilities come huge crowds. This being New York, Woods' crowd also contained a sprinkling of celebrities. Heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, in town to promote a TV replay of his last title fight against Mike Tyson, came out to Winged Foot to meet Woods before his round, and Miss Universe stood alongside the clubhouse after the round hoping to do the same thing.
The first time he breezed by, on his way to the scorer's tent, Woods didn't so much glance in her direction. We can only assume Mr. Universe had had enough excitement for one day.
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