John Daly News

Martin Laird finally came home, putting on quite a show at the Scottish Open. He twice chipped in for birdie on his way to a 6-under 65 that left him one shot behind Richard Green after the opening round at Loch Lomond.

John Daly is coming to the Canadian Open. Daly, one of golf's biggest attractions, has accepted an invitation to play in the tournament later this month near Toronto.

IAN POULTER doesn't believe John Daly could ever match him in the fashion stakes but hopes the American will be challenging all the top players on a leaderboard somewhere soon.

Several big names from the PGA will play at this year's Wyndham Championship. David Toms, Boo Weekly, Bubba Watson, and John Daly have all said they will play in Greensboro August 17-23. Toms currently is 11th in FedEx Cup points standings.

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Kevin VandenBerg, a Bellevue Country Club member, owns a one-stroke lead heading into today's final round of the Gerry Ashe Memorial golf tournament at Tuscarora Golf Club.

THE most famous shot at the last Australian Open came from spectator Brad Clegg.

OK, right up front I'm going to make a confession here. I am not that crusty old curmudgeon of a newspaper man that I've always tried to portray in this column.

Big plans are in store for Capitol City Golf Course. A gigantic shelf is being built to showcase some of the club's best shiny first-place trophies.

Chalk up another missed green for John Daly. Only in this case, the green he'll be missing is the nearly $272,000 in legal fees a judge has ordered him to pay after dismissing Daly's libel suit against the Florida Times-Union. For the record, the last time Long John won a check that large on the PGA Tour was in October 2005, when he was runner-up ...

Jason Bohn was the luckiest and least likely golfer to make the cut at the Travelers Championship on Saturday morning.

Professional golfer John Daly has been ordered to pay almost $272,000 in legal fees for his unsuccessful libel lawsuit against The Florida Times-Union. Duval County Circuit Judge Hugh Carithers ordered Daly to pay $263,088 in attorney's fees, plus costs of $8,675.99 and 8 percent interest rate per year until it is paid.

The world has long since known who wears THE trousers. Now it's Loch Lomond's turn to witness who brandishes THE bag.

England's Richard Finch overcame a rain delay to shoot 6-under 66 on Thursday in the first round of the BMW International Open, while John Daly struggled on the first leg of a three-tournament European swing.

On a blustery Tuesday afternoon, Kathy Ziglo could not be blown off the lead at the Saskatoon women's amateur golf tournament at Greenbryre Golf and County Club.

If you prefer your heroes a little flawed, but very real, make room at the table this morning for John Daly, a super-sized athlete formerly too big for the game he chose -- golf, where most of the violence takes place in your head.

If this year's Buick Open is to be the last one - and Buick officials are not saying one way or the other - the long-running PGA Tour event will go out with a flourish.

Professional golfer John Daly has made plenty of headlines both on and off the course since he burst onto the scene with his victory in the 1991 PGA Championship.

John Daly's bus turned out to be too big for a tunnel. Daly said a confusing set of signs at the entrance of the Bankhead Tunnel in Mobile, Ala., caused the top of his bus to be heavily damaged, with awnings and other parts hitting a Cadillac going in the other direction.

Professional golfer John Daly has made plenty of headlines both on and off the course since he burst onto the scene with his victory in the 1991 PGA Championship.