Wild Thing tamed by savage Pinehurst course

Thirty strokes separated John Daly from the winner of the US Open the last time it was held at Pinehurst in 1999 – and it looked like being a similarly wide gulf the way he started his final round today.

Daly, whose frustration boiled over last time when he smashed the ball with his putter as it came back down a slope to him, ran up a triple bogey seven on the second hole and dropped into the last place he held on his angry exit six years ago.