http://www.linkslifegolf.com/2009/01/01/not-the-common-man/ For All Things Golf Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:28:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.linkslifegolf.com/2009/01/01/not-the-common-man/comment-page-1/#comment-2039 Jamessmith Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:45:38 +0000 http://www.linkslifegolf.com/?p=54#comment-2039 Thank you for this articels Thank you for this articels

]]> http://www.linkslifegolf.com/2009/01/01/not-the-common-man/comment-page-1/#comment-10 George Skinner Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:57:23 +0000 http://www.linkslifegolf.com/?p=54#comment-10 Linkslifegolf, You're on the mark as far as no further tolerance for JD. I hope that he'll find his way to back to the US Tour becuase he is a character and we can use a bit of color on our white bread PGA circuit. But the tour should keep the discipline and ( presuming he does return) not cut him any slack if he falls off the straight and narrow. That said , most of us who follow golf and who attend pro tournaments or exhibitions from time to time will have stories about Long John. Heres's one of mine. Back when JD was in the Reebok camp ( and Reebok was involved in golf, mid 90's) I went down to WillowBend Golf Course on Cape Cod for a pro-am sponsored by Paul Fireman , the chairman of Reebok. Willow Bend was his course, a scenic layout with a lot of forced carries over cranberry bogs. JD and Greg Norman were both Reebok atheletes at the time so my best friend, Crazy Larry, and I decided we would follow Norman ( world #1 at the time) for 9 holes and then do the same for Daly. They we're both bombing, to say the least , and that was before the revolution in ball and club technology that we have today. No one was as long as The Shark and Daly back then. The amateur foursome that was paired with Daly must have had leprosy or something 'cause John wouldn't go near them for anything. The pace of play is always lethargic at these events, so JD spent his time pacing back and forth in the fairway or around the tee box waiting on the group ahead and chain smoking cigarretes. He was so impatient on one downhill par three that he hit his tee shot while the group ahead of him was in their carts driving to that green after teeing off! On his last hole of the day, a 4 par with a green fronted by water and cranberries, JD hooked a long iron low off the tee. It screamed into the gallery striking a woman in the hip- she fell like she was shot with a rifle. JD quick walks from the tee to where his ball lay with the same club in his hands, waves the gallery back and hits a low laser 230 yds over the water , stops it on the front of the green. Never stopped to check on the felled spectator, offer a word of apology or thanks, just took off to the green and sunk the birdie putt and beat feet. Two months later JD gets suspended from the tour for pulling that stunt where , in a pre tournament clinic, he hits a ball over the head of the audience into a parking lot. That was his first suspension from the tour, this, I hope, is his last. George S Linkslifegolf,
You’re on the mark as far as no further tolerance for JD. I hope that he’ll find his way to back to the US Tour becuase he is a character and we can use a bit of color on our white bread PGA circuit. But the tour should keep the discipline and ( presuming he does return) not cut him any slack if he falls off the straight and narrow. That said , most of us who follow golf and who attend pro tournaments or exhibitions from time to time will have stories about Long John. Heres’s one of mine. Back when JD was in the Reebok camp ( and Reebok was involved in golf, mid 90′s) I went down to WillowBend Golf Course on Cape Cod for a pro-am sponsored by Paul Fireman , the chairman of Reebok. Willow Bend was his course, a scenic layout with a lot of forced carries over cranberry bogs. JD and Greg Norman were both Reebok atheletes at the time so my best friend, Crazy Larry, and I decided we would follow Norman ( world #1 at the time) for 9 holes and then do the same for Daly. They we’re both bombing, to say the least , and that was before the revolution in ball and club technology that we have today. No one was as long as The Shark and Daly back then. The amateur foursome that was paired with Daly must have had leprosy or something ’cause John wouldn’t go near them for anything. The pace of play is always lethargic at these events, so JD spent his time pacing back and forth in the fairway or around the tee box waiting on the group ahead and chain smoking cigarretes. He was so impatient on one downhill par three that he hit his tee shot while the group ahead of him was in their carts driving to that green after teeing off! On his last hole of the day, a 4 par with a green fronted by water and cranberries, JD hooked a long iron low off the tee. It screamed into the gallery striking a woman in the hip- she fell like she was shot with a rifle. JD quick walks from the tee to where his ball lay with the same club in his hands, waves the gallery back and hits a low laser 230 yds over the water , stops it on the front of the green. Never stopped to check on the felled spectator, offer a word of apology or thanks, just took off to the green and sunk the birdie putt and beat feet. Two months later JD gets suspended from the tour for pulling that stunt where , in a pre tournament clinic, he hits a ball over the head of the audience into a parking lot. That was his first suspension from the tour, this, I hope, is his last.
George S

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