JOHN DALY

Tiger Woods called it “historic” and his “favorite.”.

One of the famous lines of Bobby Jones often cited by Jack Nicklaus is that a golfer's career is not complete without winning an Open at St. Andrews.

Jack Nicklaus is at St. Andrews for the first time in 17 years, this time without his golf clubs.

British Open St Andrews Capsules Golf FILE - Sam Snead holds the British Open trophy he won, July 5, 1946, at St. Andrews, Scotland, with a 72-hole score of 290. He beat a 26-man field, most of them local, on a soggy St. Andrews. 1882Bob Ferguson, a caddie by trade, threatened to become the first player to break 80 in an Open at St. Andrews. As the train pulled into St. Andrews and he saw the Old Course for the first time, he wasn’t sure what it was. Tiger Woods, in his bid to win a third straight Open at St. Andrews, tied for 23rd.

Tom Kidd won the first British Open at St. Andrews.

Shaggy John Daly produced yet another wild ride around a PGA Championship. The 56-year-old two-time major champion, whose booming drives propelled him to win the PGA in 1991, drove the slopes and swales of Southern Hills in a golf cart the PGA allows him to use because of osteoarthritis in his right knee.

Rory McIlroy has the lead at the PGA Championship after the first round, shooting a 5-under 65 at Southern Hills.

PGA Championship Golf Scottie Scheffler chips to the green on the second hole during a practice round for the PGA Championship golf tournament, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) (Eric Gay)TULSA, Okla. — (AP) — The Latest on the first round of the PGA Championship (all times local):___3:15 p.m.World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has kick-started his opening round at the PGA Championship with an eagle on the fifth hole in the chase to catch leader Rory McIlroy. “It’s just golf.”___1:30 p.m.Rory McIlroy’s birdie on the final hole put him back on top early in the PGA Championship at Southern Hills. ___12:30 p.m.Another wild ride for John Daly has ended at the PGA Championship. ___11:30 a.m.Tiger Woods is starting to face an uphill battle early in the PGA Championship.

PGA Championship Golf John Daly putts on the fourth hole during a practice round for the PGA Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Matt York) (Matt York)TULSA, Okla. — (AP) — The Latest on the PGA Championship (all times local):___12:30 p.m.Another wild ride for John Daly has ended at the PGA Championship. ___11:30 a.m.Tiger Woods is starting to face an uphill battle early in the PGA Championship. ___11 a.m.Rory McIlroy’s pursuit of his first major victory since 2014 is off to a big start in the opening holes of the PGA Championship at Southern Hills. Playing with Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth in the featured group of the first round, McIlroy birdied holes Nos. He hasn’t led a round of a major championship since that 2014 victory.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — (AP) — Steve Stricker shot a 4-under 68 to maintain a two-stroke lead Friday over Scott McCarron and Padraig Harrington in the second round of the Regions Tradition, the first of five PGA Tour Champions majors. He had only his first bogey of the tournament on the par 5 fifth hole but never lost his lead. “The three-putt kind of put a little skid into my round really quick,” said Stricker, who was captain of the winning U.S. Ryder Cup team at Whistling Straits last year. McCarron, who started on the back nine, had a five-birdie, six-hole stretch before his only bogey of the round on No. 15 to highlight a 70 after joining Wes Short Jr. in second place after the first round.

Tiger Woods says, for now anyway, he’s planning to play this week in the Masters, a little more than a year after he nearly lost a leg in a car crash.

Tiger Woods is wearing Nike apparel this week as always.

Tiger Woods has arrived Augusta National but it's still not clear whether he'll play in the Masters.

Is Tiger Woods appearing at the Masters this year? The five-time Masters champion has flown to Augusta and played 18 holes at the famous golf course, sources told ESPN. It is believed this is the first time Woods’ 13-year-old son has played at Augusta National. ESPN reported that Woods is on the list of 91 participants in next week’s Masters, but he hasn’t officially said he is playing. Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 38 Photos: Tiger Woods through the years Here are some memorable photos of golf legend Tiger Woods through the years.

John Daly and his college son won the PNC Championship.

Tiger Woods can still hit great golf shots, just not that many.

Reigning world champion Kaillie Humphries has been announced as part of this season’s USA Bobsled national team.

Louis Oosthuizen is leading the British Open and that's not all that surprising.

Play was suspended twice in the afternoon because of rain and lightning, with 30 players unable to finish before dark. After dropping a stroke on the par-4 18th to finish his opening nine, Stuard birdied five of the next six holes in the morning round at Keene Trace. “I felt like my iron play was nice today,” Stuard said. Stuard won the rain-shortened Zurich Classic of New Orleans in 2016 for his lone PGA Tour title. “It was a good start, but in all honesty, it doesn’t really mean much,” Stuard said.

The British Open could have big crowds at Royal St. George's.

Corey Conners made it look stress-free amid the wind and havoc of Kiawah Island.

Patrick Cantlay follows his shot from the seventh tee of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Pebble Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Patrick Cantlay looked just as good Thursday at Pebble Beach as the last round he played 18 days ago. That tied the course record at Pebble Beach last matched 24 years ago by David Duval, and it gave Cantlay a two-shot lead in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Bhatia hit all 18 of the small greens at Pebble Beach, the first player to do that at Pebble since Ryan Palmer in 2008. AdIt helped being at Pebble Beach, typically the easiest course when the weather is dry and relatively calm. The AT&T Pebble Beach and Honda Classic offered him exemptions.

The PNC Championship announced Thursday that Woods will play with 11-year-old son Charlie in the tournament that has paired major champions with their sons since 1995, the year before the 44-year-old Woods turned pro. “I can't tell you how excited I am to be playing with Charlie in our first official tournament together,” Woods said. The PNC Championship is Dec. 19-20 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando in central Florida. It allowed Fuzzy Zoeller to play with his daughter, Gretchen, and Arnold Palmer to play with his grandson, Sam Saunders. Until deciding to play in the PNC Championship, it was thought Woods ended the year at the Masters.

Cameron Champ hits from the fairway on the 18th hole during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at TPC Harding Park Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)John Daly famously won a PGA Championship 29 years ago by swinging as hard as he could every time he got on the tee. Swinging hard comes naturally to Champ. Before Bryson DeChambeau bulked up and began crushing drives this year, the 25-year-old was the gold standard on the PGA Tour when it came to swing speed and distance. Two negative tests days after that prompted the PGA Tour to change its guidelines and he was playing in Detroit the next week.

Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, hits from the third tee during practice for the PGA Championship golf tournament at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. The PGA Championship is a major he has won four times, more than anyone except Jack Nicklaus and Walter Hagen. A year ago, he played 18 holes a week before the PGA Championship and only nine holes in the three days leading to the opening round. Now he's the two-time defending champion for the PGA, and he found some form last week with a runner-up finish in a World Golf Championship. The PGA Championship has never been known for its sweaters.

Bryson DeChambeau holds the Rocket Mortgage Classic golf tournament trophy Sunday, July 5, 2020, at Detroit Golf Club in Detroit. DeChambeau won the tournament by three strokes for his first victory of the season and sixth overall. That was John Daly at Crooked Stick in 1991 when he followed his caddie's instructions Kill it! on his way to winning the PGA Championship. Bryson DeChambeau took that to another level last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. The real measure of his plan is whether DeChambeau changes the way golf is played.

Of the 384 vacancies, the most, 104, can be found in the Mike Chitwood-led sheriff's office, which is short 36 deputies and 24 911 dispatchers. As Volusia County considers a proposal to add 25 positions to next year's budget, the county already has nearly 400 unfilled positions, with more than one-third of the vacancies in public safety departments such as beach safety, the jail, and sheriff's office, records show. [Read: Volusia sheriffs Chief Deputy John Creamer resigns abruptly]Another deputy told Chitwood last week he was leaving for Orange County where pay is better. In 2019, the number of positions authorized was 958, while the number employees in the salary database was 838, a difference of 120. "What concerns me is the vacancies within the sheriffs office," said County Chair Ed Kelley.