John Daly was disqualified from this week's Arnold Palmer invitational after he missed his tee time for the Wednesday pro-am. Under PGA Tour rules, a player who misses the pro-am is automatically disqualified from the tournament unless he is ill or has extenuating circumstances. Daly's DQ also effectively disqualified two other players, Ryuji Imada and Nick O'Hern, who were the first alternates for the pro-am. Neither were at the golf course when Daly failed to show so they also were knocked out of the tournament. Hardly seems fair that they have to pay for Daly's mistake. It will be interesting to see how many more tournament sponsors will be willing to take a chance on Daly given recent events.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Kel Nagle.
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