Daly Approved To Use Cart On “Walking Only” Golf Course
- Updated: May 8, 2019
John Daly will be teeing it up at the PGA Championship next week, but instead of walking the course, he will be riding.
Bethpage Black, which will host the 101st PGA, is a walking only golf course (aka no carts allowed), but when you’re John Daly and won the 1991 PGA Championship, apparently an exception can be made.
According to the AP’s Doug Ferguson, the PGA of America’s approved the use of a cart for Daly who’s been battling through an injured knee.
“I hope I don’t get a lot of grief from the fans,” Daly said in a telephone interview. “My knee is screwed. I had the meniscus cut out. I have osteoarthritis so bad … I can walk up a hill, I just can’t walk down one.”
The PGA of America said Daly applied to use a cart through its American with Disabilities Act policy and provided “the requisite information to allow for a review of his request by the PGA’s medical team.”
It will be the first time player to ride a cart in a major since Casey Martin in the 2012 U.S. Open.
If we’re being honest, 7,436 yards sounds much more enjoyable riding rather than walking.
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