Wild Thing tamed by savage Pinehurst course
Thirty strokes separated John Daly from the winner of the US Open the last time it was held at Pinehurst in 1999 – and it looked like being a similarly wide gulf the way he started his final round today.
Daly, whose frustration boiled over last time when he smashed the ball with his putter as it came back down a slope to him, ran up a triple bogey seven on the second hole and dropped into the last place he held on his angry exit six years ago.
The former British Open champion – he returns next month to the scene of his triumph at St Andrews – was 16 over par as a result.
That was 19 shots adrift of South African Retief Goosen, who took a three-stroke lead into the final day of his bid for a third victory in five years.
