John Daly turns 50 on April 28 and will be playing his first event on the Champions Tour barely a week later.
Daly committed to the play in the Insperity Invitational on May 6-8 at The Woodlands Country Club in The Woodlands, Texas.
“It’s been seven years since I had a good schedule,” Daly said during a conference call with reporters. “My golf game hasn’t been that great, but I have been working really hard lately and I’m excited to really just get a schedule.
” … It is more laid-back (on the Champions Tour), that’s what everybody says, and I’m looking forward to it, and really most of the time, with them not having a cut, you can get really aggressive.”
Daly, who has won five times on the PGA Tour including the 1991 PGA Championship at Crooked Stick and the 1995 Open Championship at St. Andrews, has not had a PGA Tour card in almost 10 years and relies on sponsor’s exemptions to get into tournaments.
He has played only seven regular PGA Tour events in the last year, none since the Barracuda Championship in August, and his last victory on the circuit came in the 2004 Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines.
Daly also said he will play in a second Champions Tour event, the Principal Charity Classic at Wakonda Club in Des Moines, Iowa, on June 3-5 in Iowa.
