John Daly plans to tee it up in a serious subsequent week, simply not on the PGA Championship.
The largest quirk of the 2025 schedule is that the Areas Custom in Birmingham, Alabama – the primary of 5 majors on the PGA Tour Champions – is similar week because the PGA Championship at Quail Hole Membership in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“I can go there and miss the lower and get $6,000,” Daly mentioned of the PGA Championship, which final yr paid $4,000 to gamers who missed the lower. “However I am taking part in Birmingham. I like Areas. They’re an important sponsor. However why are they scheduling Areas the identical week because the PGA Championship, the place I can see Brooks (Koepka) and all the fellows?”
Could sometimes is crowded for golf and the Areas Traditions did not need to take this week as a result of it is powerful getting help on Mom’s Day. The week after the PGA Championship is the Senior PGA Championship at Congressional.
Going earlier was powerful with NASCAR at Talladega on April 27.
Daly additionally shouldn’t be in prime kind after surgical procedure on his left hand in January. He mentioned his greatest problem stays getting via the ball on three-quarter pictures – that and his placing. He completed at 27-over par final week on the Insperity Invitational, a match he gained in 2017 and was runner-up in 2020.
However he is not able to pack it in from taking part in on the PGA Tour Champions, even with 16 surgical procedures and bladder most cancers.
“I am like Lazarus – I hold getting back from the lifeless,” he mentioned. “Waking up is a win for me.”
Daly is not the one former PGA champion lacking subsequent week.
Rich Beem, who took down Tiger Woods at Hazeltine in 2002, selected to not play this yr after a tough go at Valhalla final yr. Beem now works for Sky Sports activities on the massive occasions and felt he did not have sufficient time to organize this yr for an enormous course. Quail Hole is 7,262 yards and performs as a par 71.
“I received my (butt) handed to me final yr,” he mentioned. “Although I had success at Bethpage (2019), you lose 10 yards, you would possibly as nicely lose 100.”
He mentioned he plans on skipping Aronimink subsequent yr however will return to the PGA Championship in 2027 in his dwelling state of Texas, the place he hopes dry and agency circumstances will assist.
Davis Love III (recovering from coronary heart surgical procedure) and Y.E. Yang additionally are usually not within the PGA Championship subsequent week.
