Golf is hard and even if you’re a major winning golfer like John Daly, the game never gets any easier it seems as his latest showing on the PGA TOUR Champions shows.
Daly is still strutting his stuff out on the Champions Tour from time to time and in the last two months alone, he’s played in four different events.
Sadly for Daly, the results haven’t been ideal and his best finish in 2025 is T50 at the James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational last month.
For a player like John Daly – widely regarded as one of the most naturally gifted players to ever play on the PGA Tour – being so far out of contention will be hurting him.
However, at the latest TOUR Champions event, The Insperity Invitational, Daly has sunk to a new low in terms of scoring as he suffered a complete disaster over three rounds.
John Daly’s nightmare score at The Insperity Invitational
It doesn’t matter what level of golf you play to, not performing is frustrating and at times, embarrassing.
Therefore, for a player like John Daly to suffer as he has done this weekend, it’s almost painful to just write about it.
Nevertheless, Daly’s score is worth noting and in the end he finished a terrible 27 over par to finish out his tournament.
Daly carded rounds of seven over, 11 over and nine over par to come dead last and finish a whopping 38 shots back of the eventual winner, Stewart Cink.
Indeed, Daly was so far back in the field that he even finished 11 shots behind the next worse player in the tournament, Corey Pavin, who shot a dismal 16 over for his tournament.
Of course, these things can happen in golf but after going bogey, bogey, bogey, double, triple, double in a six hole stretch in round two, Daly might well be questioning why he’s bothering.
After well documented and self confessed health issues, along with a recent hand surgery, it begs the question of if Daly could start to consider retirement soon.
Not the first time John Daly has had a meltdown
Every golfer in the world has, at some point, had a round to forget and while 27 over for three rounds will be right up there in the record books of worst scores, it’s not the first time John Daly has suffered.
Back in 1998 and somewhere near his prime, Daly was playing at The Arnold Palmer and with his big hitting a feature of his game, was trying to drive the par four sixth over water.
However, in a show of defiance more than anything, Daly attempted to clear the water SIX times as he tried to make the 350+ yard shot.
In the end, Daly signed off for an 85 and 13 over par.
He did, of course, recover from that and carried on for some time but now aged 59 and well on his way to winding down his career, you have to wonder if Daly will bother much more after such a nightmare showing this week.
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