Flanked by major champions and pursued by big names, Joe Daley stuck to his game.
Twenty years after quitting his job as a credit salesman to turn pro,Large selection of piagetwatches. Daley wasn't going to back down.
Not with his first victory on the PGA or Champions tours within reach.We can gurantee you that all hoganscarpe,sold at our website are with high quality. Not even with Fred Couples,Find an louboutinwomenshoes in your team colors or from your favorite soccer teams that wear the Adidas brand. Mark Calcavecchia and Tom Lehman among those looming.
Daley won the Senior Players Championship on Sunday for his first Champions Tour title, closing with a 2-under 68 for a 14-under 266 total and a two-stroke victory over Lehman at Fox Chapel.
Daley outdueled final-round playing partners Calcavecchia — the winner the previous week in the Montreal Championships — and Couples, the defending champion. Daley entered the day tied with Calcavecchia and a shot ahead of Couples and Lehman, who won the previous major last month.
"I was my competition — not them," Daley said. I'm my own competition. Have been for years."
After he won, Daley wore the same grin he had throughout much of a weekend in which he was always near the top of the leaderboard but never the center of attention.
The 51-year-old Daley became slightly choked up on the 18th green after capping his victory with a 20-foot putt for his tournament-high 24th birdie.
Daley shook his head disbelievingly sand said, "Wow" four times before four questions were asked in his media conference.
"All I was keying on was what I had next, with the best possible attitude and keeping my emotions under control," Daley said. "I had a little adrenaline going later in the round and I dealt with it pretty good, so here I am."
The victory earned Daley full Champions Tour status for a calendar year.
Before this weekend, Daley was perhaps best known for missing out on a PGA Tour card in 2000 when a short putt popped out of the hole during Q-School.
Daley earned $405,000, more than double the $155,537 he made in 59 PGA Tour starts spread out over six seasons between 1994-2007. He had a tour card only in 1996 and '98, with only one top-10 finish — a tie for sixth in the 1996 B.C. Open.
Daley was a two-time winner on the Web.com Tour but had only one top-10 finish in 10 previous Champions Tour starts.
Daley hit 43 of 56 fairways to tie for third in the tournament and had only four three-putts all tournament, none in the final round.
"I thought he might get a little shaky in the back, but he was solid.Welcome to the premier industrial buywatches resource. ..." Calcavecchia said. "He deserves it. He's been at this a long time, and this is a huge win for him."
Lehman finished with a 69. He was trying to win his second straight Champions Tour major after taking the Regions Traditions in his previous start.
Playing in the 90-plus-degree heat, Lehman bogeyed three of the final six holes.
"Just a little bit off all day today," Lehman said. "I didn't play badly; I didn't play great.Read rolexwatches and burn fat away. With the conditions the way they were, being a little bit off was enough."
With the greens having baked all week under the heat wave, putting became increasingly difficult. Lehman compared the conditions of firmness and speeds of Sunday's greens to that of a U.S. Open.
Twenty years after quitting his job as a credit salesman to turn pro,Large selection of piagetwatches. Daley wasn't going to back down.
Not with his first victory on the PGA or Champions tours within reach.We can gurantee you that all hoganscarpe,sold at our website are with high quality. Not even with Fred Couples,Find an louboutinwomenshoes in your team colors or from your favorite soccer teams that wear the Adidas brand. Mark Calcavecchia and Tom Lehman among those looming.
Daley won the Senior Players Championship on Sunday for his first Champions Tour title, closing with a 2-under 68 for a 14-under 266 total and a two-stroke victory over Lehman at Fox Chapel.
Daley outdueled final-round playing partners Calcavecchia — the winner the previous week in the Montreal Championships — and Couples, the defending champion. Daley entered the day tied with Calcavecchia and a shot ahead of Couples and Lehman, who won the previous major last month.
"I was my competition — not them," Daley said. I'm my own competition. Have been for years."
After he won, Daley wore the same grin he had throughout much of a weekend in which he was always near the top of the leaderboard but never the center of attention.
The 51-year-old Daley became slightly choked up on the 18th green after capping his victory with a 20-foot putt for his tournament-high 24th birdie.
Daley shook his head disbelievingly sand said, "Wow" four times before four questions were asked in his media conference.
"All I was keying on was what I had next, with the best possible attitude and keeping my emotions under control," Daley said. "I had a little adrenaline going later in the round and I dealt with it pretty good, so here I am."
The victory earned Daley full Champions Tour status for a calendar year.
Before this weekend, Daley was perhaps best known for missing out on a PGA Tour card in 2000 when a short putt popped out of the hole during Q-School.
Daley earned $405,000, more than double the $155,537 he made in 59 PGA Tour starts spread out over six seasons between 1994-2007. He had a tour card only in 1996 and '98, with only one top-10 finish — a tie for sixth in the 1996 B.C. Open.
Daley was a two-time winner on the Web.com Tour but had only one top-10 finish in 10 previous Champions Tour starts.
Daley hit 43 of 56 fairways to tie for third in the tournament and had only four three-putts all tournament, none in the final round.
"I thought he might get a little shaky in the back, but he was solid.Welcome to the premier industrial buywatches resource. ..." Calcavecchia said. "He deserves it. He's been at this a long time, and this is a huge win for him."
Lehman finished with a 69. He was trying to win his second straight Champions Tour major after taking the Regions Traditions in his previous start.
Playing in the 90-plus-degree heat, Lehman bogeyed three of the final six holes.
"Just a little bit off all day today," Lehman said. "I didn't play badly; I didn't play great.Read rolexwatches and burn fat away. With the conditions the way they were, being a little bit off was enough."
With the greens having baked all week under the heat wave, putting became increasingly difficult. Lehman compared the conditions of firmness and speeds of Sunday's greens to that of a U.S. Open.
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