Because of osteoarthritis, the 53-year-old golfer will be riding in the PGA Championship.
John Daly will be using a cart in PGA Tour Champions events. By Cindy Boren Cindy Boren Reporter covering sports, with an emphasis on politics and national stories Email Bio Follow May 15 at 2:10 PM John Daly heard Tiger Woods’s jab about using a golf cart to compete in the PGA Championship and he isn’t angry. He says he just wishes Woods had taken time to learn “all the facts” about his health issues.
Daly, who has osteoarthritis in his knee and says he takes a daily injection for type 2 diabetes, was granted a medical exemption under the Americans With Disabilities Act so that he can ride rather than walking the Bethpage Black course as he competes in the tournament. That was a reminder that he won the U.S. Open in 2008, playing with a tibial stress fracture and anterior cruciate ligament tear that required reconstructive surgery days after the win. Daly noted that he doesn’t have a surgical option for what ails him and has left him unable, he says, to walk downhill because he has no meniscus in the knee.
Daly, a perennial fan favorite for an Everyman look and approachability, uses a cart to get around on the PGA Tour Champions for players 50 and over. There it is allowed, but playing in the PGA Championship, for which he has lifetime entry as a former champion, required an exemption from the PGA of America, which was granted last week.
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