Relying on the weather to tame the Tiger

GOLFER John Daly has described Jack Nicklaus’ farewell to St Andrews at last weekend’s Open as “very emotional”, while admitting that he and other competitors were relying on the weather to help reel in eventual winner Tiger Woods.

Daly was speaking in Cork, where he is co-designer with Mel Flanagan of the new Blarney Golf Resort, and didn’t think last Sunday’s victory for Woods was a matter of a return to form.

“Tiger’s never lost his form. He just seems to get better and better. We were kind of hoping for some bad weather because if you go out and you’re real, real hot, then Tiger gets on a par roll. The wind at St Andrew’s blows really hard and you’re happy with pars.