John Daly Part 147

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A question for GPK and any other golfers among us.....

John Daly seems reborn yet again by his 2012 PGA/EURO performance over the last six months but more so recently.....

So far this year JD has about 300K in earnings combining his PGA and EURO circuit earnings having made 4 of 5 PGA cuts and 5 of 7 on the European tour.

His June play rewarded final round improvements twice as he finished 24th yesterday at the Euro Irish Open shooting a final round 67 after three weeks previously dropping a 64 final round on his PGA competitors in the Fed Ex St. Jude at TPC Southwind netting him 67K for the effort.

JD is scheduled to play the next 3 weeks in the Greenbrier (6.1M) ,John Deere (4.6M) and British Open (8.0M) for almost 20 million in prize money which could easily bump his 2012 earnings north of a half million by the end of July.

To keep your card last year you had to finish better than 125th place on the money list which was about $364,000. Daly has better than 80% of that combining his earnings on both circuits which is not allowed. I wanted to know if he did earn the number in PGA events, does he get his card back?



Is there a mechanism for JD to earn his PGA card back here by his play and money earned or is the new DOT.Com the only way in the door to full time player status ......??

Does money earned in the British Open count toward earnings used to calculate the Money List for the PGA?

Daly has certainly been his own enemy for well publicized reasons during his career but he does seem to be playing more consistently and better at the ripe ole age of 46....I am aware of his gastric surgery but I doubt that is responsible for all of this performance improvement.

Why so, and does he have a way back to his PGA card by money earned under the current format?