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At 42 years old, he’s rounding into some of the best form of his career: He clocked his best finish in a major at the PGA Championship last month (T-8), then followed with T-20 and T-13 finishes in his next two starts before finding himself in contention again through 36 holes at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.

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My ears always perk up when I hear a non-bomber talk about how he’s been able to withstand the effects of time — which is exactly what Streelman did after his second round on Friday.

So take notes, golfers everywhere…

How to practice smart

One of the biggest shifts Streelman has made in his game in recent years hasn’t come on the golf course, but rather, how he practices.

After every tournament, Streelman says he goes through the Shotlink data from his last tournament, takes note of what he didn’t do well and spends a few extra minutes practicing just that. They aren’t long practice sessions, Streelman says, but they are targeted ones.

“I’ll go home in an off week and go, all right, I’ve got to make more 5- to 10-footers this week,” he says, “then I come out the next week and make my 5-to 10-footers in the tournament and finish sixth.”

The rest of us may not have Shotlink at our disposal, but there are enough stat-tracking apps (shoutout to our sister-company GolfLogix) where you’ll be able to see where you’re losing strokes. And once you do that, all it takes is a few extra minutes before your next round to improve it.

“It’s not rocket science, but it’s smart practice, smart work and smart preparation,” Streelman says. “The older you get, it’s kind of important.”

How to stay healthy

Streelman isn’t the kind of prototypical athlete we’re growing accustomed to seeing on the PGA Tour nowadays, but he does boast something every player would kill for: 20 years as a professional golfer, injury-free.

“I’ve been very, very blessed to be 20 years as a pro without major injuries and back pain,” he says.

But it’s not by accident. When it comes to his health, Streelman follows two rules:

He doesn’t follow a strict diet, but makes sure he never goes overboard on anything. It’s an “everything in moderation” approach.

“I like to have some fun when I have some time off,” he says.

As for his workout routine? Streelman says he doesn’t hit the weights hard, but focuses more on twice-a-day stretching before and after his round.

“It’s just important to keep our backs loose. It’s important to keep our hips open and flexible,” he says. “I just kind of know my body and know what I can and can’t do.”

How to improve your attitude

And finally, there’s the mental side — arguably the most important element of all to playing good golf for a long time.

Streelman says he’s mellowed over the years, and if he could back to give advice to his former self, his words would be simple:

“I would say just enjoy the journey,” he said. “There are opportunities I let slip by because I was almost scared of the moment, which was silly, and now it’s kind of, who cares? You’ve got nothing to lose. Enjoy it, because if you don’t do well, everyone forgets and you don’t care anyway. And if you do do well, that’s gravy.”

It’s the fear of failing, he says, that paradoxically can cause you to fail.

“Knowing who I am as a man and a husband, and now a veteran out here, it’s something I’m proud of,” Streelman says. “There are lots of times when you fear losing a card or fear screwing up. You’ve just got to enjoy it. That’s what I’m doing now, and I think that’s why I’m playing a lot better right now.”

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But it’s the duo’s experience in 2017 — the year before the their maiden victory — that makes the best story. On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar, Fitzgerald sat down with hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz to explain the reason why he abandoned his partner, Streelman, for five holes during third round’s back nine.

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“Before I got my invitation to play that year — it’s one of those things you kind of wait in the mail for — they send this really cool invitation and I hadn’t gotten it yet,” Fitzgerald began. “So, the Coyotes asked me if I would drop the puck. It was the Larry Fitzgerald bobble-head night, and they were playing against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Got a chance to meet [Pittsburgh Penguins Evgeni] Malkin and Sidney Crosby for the first time. So I committed to it, and I got the invitation, and I told Mr. Johnson, look, I appreciate this invitation, but I’ve already committed to dropping the puck, so I need to get back.

“So, we’re on No. 13. I hit my shot, play the hole, and I just duck off to the road, jump in the car, take me to the airport,” Fitzgerald continued. “I fly in, drop the puck, jump back on the plane and get back. And Streels goes two-under on the way home. Therefore, we make the cut, and then we [finished runner-up] on Sunday. [I was checking my phone] the whole way. The whole way. But he was hitting it so good that day. He’s used to playing by himself in these tournaments anyway. So I don’t think [my absence] really changed anything for him.”

Fitzgerald and Streelman ended up finishing two shots shy of Ken Duke and Carson Daly’s 33-under total. But the near-miss clearly fueled future greatness, as Fitzgerald and Streelman took the title in two of their following three appearances.

For more from Fitzgerald — including what is was like to play Augusta National for the first time, and make a hole-in-one in front of President Obama, check out the full interview below.

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Sweat beaded on his brow, and tears welled in his eyes. His ball found the fairway, which is not why Boze felt weepy. At 80, he was back to playing golf for the first time in nine years.

“A dream come true,” Boze said. “I never thought I’d be doing this again.”

For most of his life, the game had been engrained in his weekly routine. But in 2010, around his 70th birthday, Boze noticed that his hands had started shaking. In time, the tremors spread. His balance grew unsteady. On bad days, he could barely raise his arms.

Tests confirmed what doctors suspected: Boze had Parkinson’s disease, a disorder of the central nervous system.

A former collegiate swimmer and ex-Air Force fighter pilot in Vietnam, Boze wasn’t one to give in to physical discomfort. In the high desert around his home in Scottsdale, he kept pegging it with friends at local courses. But it was difficult to walk, much less swing a club. Before long, he was forced to mothball his sticks.

“Giving up the game was painful,” Boze said. “I lost touch with people. I got knocked out of friendships.”

Amicably divorced, with two grown daughters, Boze lived alone and liked it. But that, too, became a struggle he could no longer sustain. In early 2019, he sold his place in Scottsdale and moved to the Glencroft Center for Modern Aging, a senior living community in nearby Glendale.

The relocation came with a whiff of resignation.

“I felt like I was leaving all the good stuff behind,” he said.

Set on 40 tree-lined acres, some 20 minutes northwest of the Phoenix airport, the Glencroft Center is home to more than 900 residents age 62 and older, all receiving customized degrees of care. Picture a college campus, crossed with the film set from “Cocoon.”

When Boze arrived, settling into a condo in a complex set aside for independent living, the Glencroft Center had just hired Steve Heller, an energetic man in his mid-40s with a background in exercise physiology. At the dawn of his career, in the late 1990s, Heller had trained NFL and NBA prospects before founding Fore-Max Training, a golf-focused fitness program, based in Scottsdale, that attracted a range of talents, from weekend duffers to collegiate stars and PGA Tour stalwarts such as Kevin Streelman and Ricky Barnes.

Heller’s work with golfers — on strength, flexibility, mobility and balance — put him in good stead to help clients with the challenges of aging. At the Glencroft Center, he was tasked with creating a fall-prevention program. Heller recognized this as a crucial mission. But, he thought, why stop there?

“So much of aging care in this country seemed to me to be about keeping people safe in their wheelchairs and their scooters so they could go play bingo or cards,” Heller said. “My feeling was, these people are capable of so much more and eager for so much more. Let’s help them continue doing, or get back to doing, the things they love the most.”

As Heller saw it, Mike Boze was a poster child for this ambition. Soon after they’d first met on the Glencroft Center campus, the two men had discovered their shared love of golf. Boze lit up when they discussed the game. But he only spoke about it in the past tense.

Heller suggested he focus on the future.

“I told him to give me two weeks of working out every day,” Heller said. “Not only would he have better balance, and be moving way more fluidly, but I’d eventually get him making solid contact with a golf ball again.”

Boze was skeptical but told Heller: “If you can pull that off, I’d be forever grateful.”

With Boze as inspiration, Heller expanded on his fall-prevention classes, stitching golf-specific movements into the mix. He dusted off equipment from his Fore-Max days — swing fans, impact bags, training aids, weighted clubs — and pushed Boze through modified versions of the same exercises he’d once made Streelman do.

At the same time, through a $20,000 private grant, Heller acquired virtual reality consoles and linked them to golf platforms, providing Boze with an immersive “golf” experience as he worked on getting back to the real thing.

As Heller’s program took shape, it also took a name. At the Glencroft Center, it was christened ZoeLife, a name derived from a Biblical term for pursuing an active and purposeful existence.

It instilled new meaning into Boze’s days.

“You could hear the change in his voice,” Kelly Thomas, Boze’s daughter, said. “For so many years, he had so much taken away from him. It had gotten him really down. Now, suddenly, there was excitement when he talked. You could tell that he felt like he had something to look forward to again.”

Boze’s path forward was not a cakewalk. Heller’s regimen for him involved 90 minutes of daily morning workouts, a challenging routine made more demanding by Boze’s condition. Boze would leave each session feeling loose and limber, but within hours, his muscles would seize up.

“It’s something we see in all our Parkinson’s guys,” Heller said. “The disease just grabs them, and takes over. It becomes a mental battle on top of the physical challenge. There are just so many hurdles they have to clear.”

The Covid-19 crisis further complicated matters, throwing a wrench into daily rhythms. But Boze persisted, making incremental progress with his morning workouts. Within weeks, he was back to chipping golf balls. Within months, he’d regained enough balance to start making full swings.

By then, other Glencroft Center residents had taken notice. Some were also golfers who’d given up the game. A second senior joined Heller’s morning sessions. Then a third. Then a fourth.

Word of the ZoeLife program began to spread. It reached Wigwam Golf Resort, where Warren Schutte, a former Tour pro, runs a golf academy that bears his name. Liking what he heard, Schutte contacted Heller and offered his facility as a practice and training ground for Glencroft Center seniors.

“I run junior programs here, and there’s no doubt in my mind that junior programs are vitally important,” Schutte said. “But just because we’re working with a lot of kids doesn’t mean we should forget about the older population.”

It is, after all, a large pool.

In 2019, golfers 65 and older accounted for 19 percent of the country’s 24.3 million golfers, according to data from the National Golf Foundation. In the coming years, that percentage is expected to grow, as Baby Boomers age into the demographic. How long they’ll stick with golf is another matter. Though exact figures are hard to come by, it’s no secret that every year, large numbers of seniors give up the game due to illness, injury, financial constraints or other reasons. For all the talk of growing the game by bringing newbies to it, less attention goes toward keeping longtime players in it.

“How many others are out there like Mike Boze?” Heller said. “No doubt in my mind. There are a lot.”

Out on the first hole at Wigwam, Boze climbed into a cart. Heller sat beside him at the wheel. June in Arizona. The sun was searing. Boze smiled and shook his head in disbelief. Nearly six months after he’d begun his workouts, and nearly a decade since he’d last struck a shot that counted, he had just split the fairway with a lazy draw. Arriving at his ball, Boze smacked another shot. And then another. The hole was a par-5. Boze reached the green in 4, with 12 feet left for par.

Boze ran his first putt past, then lipped out the come-backer — the sweetest double bogey he had ever recorded. From the heat and the excitement, he felt fatigued already. That wasn’t going to stop him. Riding to the next tee, Boze dabbed his eyes again. Golf had supplied him with a life of memories. Now he was bent on making more.

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After the first round of the event, where he eventually went onto to finish T10, Streelman walked me through his current equipment setup. In the video below, Streelman provided some great insight on what’s in his bag and why.

Here are five of my key takeaways from our interview with Streelman.

1) Social distancing friendly Sunday bag

Due to social-distancing precautions, the Scottsdale AZ Open looked a bit different than regular Tour events. Players took their own carts instead of walking and having caddies carry their bags. As such, many golfers left their heavy staff bags at home, opting instead for lighter carry bags to lessen the load.

Ahead of the event, Wilson sent Streelman an awesome MacKenzie Sunday bag for the event. As an Illinois-native, Streelman was especially proud of the Chicago Cubs logo that was stitched on the interior of the golf ball pocket. Check out the full video above to see the reveal, and what Streelman had to say about the carry bag.

2) An open-faced driver

Going back 15 years to his days with Cleveland, Streelman says that’s he always preferred an open-faced driver. He calls it his “secret sauce.”

With the face cranked open, however, there are some adjustments that need to be made. Streelman explains how his new Ping G410 LST driver is setup:

“I like to look down and see a lot of face so I feel like I can release it. The key to that is when you open the face you have to have a lot of loft. I have a 10.5-degree head that I maximized open, which brings the loft down. It’s kind of the opposite of what a lot of people think. To open the face it actually brings the loft down, so it brings the actual (loft) down to about 9 degrees. And because it’s so open, I have to put a bunch of glue and weight in the draw-bias. I feel like that stabilizes the face and prevents the flair out to the right.. So that’s kind of been my secret sauce for the last 14 years on Tour of how I’ve setup my drivers.”

3) R.I.P. Rocketballz

Look in any PGA Tour player’s bag, and it’s likely that the oldest club in their setup is a fairway wood. For many golfers, it’s difficult to find a fairway wood they truly trust, so when they find one, they stick with it. And when something happens to that fairway wood, it can be upsetting.

Streelman, for example, is still heartbroken over an accident with his former TaylorMade Rocketballz fairway wood. He’s since moved onto something new that he loves: a TaylorMade M2 Tour head, with the same Oban Kiyoshi Purple shaft he had in his Rocketballz.

“I was playing the Rocketballz a few years back,” Strelman explains. “Great 3-wood, and I loved it. It shattered at Bay Hill. I’ll never forget it. It just cracked right along the top. The entire front line of my Rocketballz was just shattered, and I was in tears basically. So TaylorMade was like, ‘Let us make you up a new one,’ and I was like, ‘No, no.’ I pull this shaft out of my Rocketballz head … they threw this head on there, and it’s been like my baby ever since. But this shaft has literally been in my bag for five or six years now.”

4) A hybrid 5-wood

As Streelman explains, he’s struggled a bit finding the right club to fill the gap between his 3-wood and his longest iron. For him, hybrids tend to hook, and 5-woods tend to balloon and get caught in the wind.

His solution is a modified Ping G fairway wood that sits in the middle between a hybrid setup and a 5-wood.

“My 5-wood is also a little sneaky,” Streelman says. “It’s a Ping G … I wanted a versatile club. This is sitting at 17.5-18 degrees. Kind of a standard 5-wood, but I got it very short and very heavy. It’s a 110 gram shaft and it’s an inch-and-a-half short, so I find that really stabilizes that extra spin factor that was causing me heartache.”

5) A big putter change

Throughout his golf career, Streelman has always preferred blade-style putters with thin toplines and plumber’s necks. He’s used Wilson 8802 putters, Scotty Cameron Newports, Swag Golf blade putters and more. He’s a putter tinkerer who changes putters often, but he’s always stayed in the blade wheelhouse.

After a poor putting season in 2019, however, Streelman decided to get a putter fitting at Ping with a completely open mind. Here’s what happened:

“I went to Ping in November,” Streelman explains. “I said (to them), ‘I’m not going to tell you what I like. I’m not going to tell you my length, I’m not going to tell you anything. I want you to tell me where I fit.’ And it was amazing going from my Newport 2 to (a Ping PLD mallet). The stabilization of the face. It’s a double-bend shaft. I’ve always been more of a plumber’s neck guy. That took out a ton of face rotation for me. The topline is way thicker than what I’m used to. It was a big change for me, but I just trusted them and I’ve been putting great ever since.”

Full “What’s in the Bag?”

Here is Streelman’s full setup (he also has a Wilson D7 3-iron that he replaces his 5-wood with, depending on course conditions):

Driver: Ping G410 LST (Aldila Rogue Silver 70X shaft), 10.5 degrees

3-Wood: TaylorMade M2 Tour (Oban Kiyoshi Purple 75X shaft), 15 degrees

5-Wood: Ping G (Graphite Design Tour AD-DI 110 Hybrid), 17.5 degrees

Irons: Wilson Staff FG Tour V6 (3-9 iron; Project X 6.5 shafts)

Wedges: Wilson Staff FG Tour (48, 54 and 60 degrees)

Putter: Ping PLD prototype

Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

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PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan walked through many of the conceptual procedures that will be put in place at future tournaments; the vote of confidence from the players was a necessary step for the Tour to press on. “The message from Jay,” Kevin Streelman, a PAC member, told GOLF.com Tuesday, “was that we’ve talked to doctors, talked to professionals, talked to politicians — these are the steps we need to take to be safe. Now are you guys comfortable playing competitive golf in this arena? The answer was a resounding yes.”

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Many questions remain, beginning with whether the Tour can obtain enough testing kits — which Monahan has laid out as a prerequisite to returning to competition — while they remain scarce to the public. (And if the Tour can get the tests, what is the public relations fall-out when they are used on players, caddies and support staff while public health officials continue to scramble for tests?)

The complicated logistics of moving the Tour circus from town to town was addressed at length during the call. The first four events will be played without fans and the Tour is pushing the players to accept a streamlined approach during those tournaments, with no daycare being provided as families are discouraged from traveling. One “talking point,” as Streelman describes it, is for the Tour to provide jumbo jets to ferry players and caddies from event to event, providing a more sterile environment than commercial or even private airports.

“They think it is a reasonable solution to keeping our circle tight,” says Streelman, who this week is playing in the Outlaw Tour’s Scottsdale Open to keep his game sharp. “We’re all going to be together during the week so we might as well travel together. We would all be tested before being allowed on the plane.” All players will be charged the same amount and caddies will get a bill, too, but how those numbers will be determined remains nebulous. Of course, airplanes could be a fertile place to spread the virus in the event that an infected pro or looper somehow slips on. “Yeah, that’s tricky,” Streelman says. “But nothing is 100%. We are all going to have to accept that.”

And what of the fraught moment when a player tests positive for the virus during a tournament week, which is inevitable. They will be forced to withdraw immediately but then what? “Now you’re getting into the local authorities and their rules and regulations in that city and that state,” Streelman says. “Do you have to stay at your hotel for the next 14 days? Will they even let you back to your hotel or do we need our own place to quarantine? The Tour is looking into all those situations and hypotheticals. It’s very complicated because every week we play somewhere new.”

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Getting everything locked down in time for Colonial feels like a Herculean task. “I’ve had some doubts myself but I feel more confident we’re going to play after that phone call than I did before the call,” Streelman says. “It’s not 99% sure, but it’s not 65% either. Somewhere in between.”

In a world of uncertainty this will have to suffice. Streelman says the conference call was defined by longing.

“We all have questions and we all have concerns but it’s what we do, it’s what we love,” he says. “I know the fans are missing it like crazy. If we can do something safe to appease the fans and sponsors and our crazy golf addictions, it’s good for everybody. Right now we’re just making sure we can tick all the boxes. But one thing I took from the call is that despite all the issues, we’re all very anxious and eager to get back out there.”

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It might be a mini tour event, but with the other major tours still shuttered, the Scottsdale Open is the biggest tournament in golf this week — and the field has the clout to back it up.

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Headlining the field and the current betting favorite is PGA Tour up-and-comer Joel Dahmen, who has 5/1 odds to win the 54-hole event, according to golfodds.com. Dahmen is currently ranked No. 70 in the world and is coming off a fiery round of 58 last week at Mesa Country Club. Dahmen won the Scottsdale Open in 2017 before rising to PGA Tour acclaim.

Two-time PGA Tour winner Kevin Streelman owns 12/1 odds as he looks for his first professional victory since 2014. Coming in just behind Streelman at 14/1 is the hottest golfer in the world, Alex Cejka, who has racked up several victories during golf’s hiatus.

Matt Picanso and Nate Lashley — who won on Tour in 2019 — sit at 16/1 odds, while Dylan Wu, Callum Hill and Brandon Harkins round out the top five at 20/1.

You can find odds for the entire field below.

Scottsdale Open odds to win

Joel Dahmen 5/1

Kevin Streelman 12/1

Alex Cejka 14/1

Matt Picanso 16/1

Nate Lashley 16/1

Dylan Wu 20/1

Calum Hill 20/1

Brandon Harkins 20/1

KK Limbhasut  25/1

Jeremy Paul 25/1

Mark Anguiano 35/1

Kevin Lucas 35/1

Nick Mason 35/1

JJ Spaun          35/1

Taylor Montgomery 35/1

Brent Grant 35/1

Jimmy Gunn 40/1

Colt Knost 40/1

Patrick Fishburn 40/1

Brady Calkins  50/1

Yannik Paul 50/1

Riley Wheeldon 50/1

Brandon Crick 50/1

Andrew Yun 60/1

Colton Yates 60/1

Patrick Flavin  60/1

Peter Kuest 60/1

Kirk Triplett 80/1

Brady Schnell  80/1

Kyle Pritchard 80/1

Brad Hopfinger 80/1

Blake Cannon  80/1

Steven Alker 80/1

Ben Geyer 80/1

Steve Allan 80/1

Carson Roberts 100/1

Andrew Funk 100/1

Kolton Lapa 100/1

Joe Fryer 100/1

Andre Metzger 100/1

Daniel Miernicki 100/1

Michael Weaver 100/1

Kaleb Gorbahn 125/1

Daniel Hudson 125/1

Samuel Cyr 125/1

Jake Staiano 125/1

Matthew Liringis 125/1

Ryan Williams 125/1

Riley Arp         125/1

Sam Triplett 150/1

Ryan Gronlund 150/1

Eric Ash 150/1

David Longmire 150/1

Jared Sawada 150/1

Nick Arman 150/1

Doug Quinones 150/1

Kyle Slattery 150/1

Ryan Porch 150/1

Tyler Weworski 150/1

George Markham 150/1

Mitch Carlson 200/1

Matt Gurska 200/1

Samuel Saunders 200/1

Hans Reimers  200/1

Dylan Healey 200/1

Chris Evans 200/1

Gregor Main 200/1

Neil Johnson 200/1

Jhared Hack 250/1

Daniel Mazziotta 250/1

Michael Davan 250/1

Zander Winston 250/1

Steven Kupcho 250/1

Ryan Dillon 250/1

Jonathan Khan 300/1

Spencer Fletcher 300/1

Johnny Ruiz 300/1

Jeff Nichols 300/1

Brandon Kida 300/1

John Greco 300/1

Kyle Weldon 300/1

Otto Black 300/1

Vinnie Murphy 300/1

Coby Welch 300/1

Manny Manzone 500/1

Austin Fletcher 500/1

Luke Vivolo 500/1

Mitchell Balbridge 500/1

Jeff Swegle 500/1

Andrew Buckle 500/1

Jesse Mueller  500/1

Jim Carter 500/1

Matt Snyder 500/1

Grant Brown 500/1

Sean Carlon 500/1

Taylor Myers 500/1

Li Wang 500/1

Kyle Karazissis 500/1

Ben Doyle 500/1

Bobby Kalinowski 500/1

Nate Barbee 500/1

Kaz Hoffman 500/1

Daniel Longmire 500/1

Oliver Roberts 500/1

Ben Shur         500/1

Jake Byrum 500/1

Jeff Berkshire  500/1

Jere Pelletier   500/1

Chris Figueroa 500/1

Jesse Heinly 500/1

Neal McCarty  500/1

Griffin Wood 500/1

Evan Knight 500/1

Nathan Ouimette 500/1

Redford Bobbitt 500/1

Zach Smith 500/1

Jack Elliott 1000/1

Grant Booth 1000/1

Jacob Loya 1000/1

Brett Johnson 1000/1

Joey Park 1000/1

Joseph Lambert 1000/1

Andrew Wilkinson 1000/1

Tyler Jessop 1000/1

Brad Golden 1000/1

Andrew Romano 1000/1

Quinn Carbol 1000/1

Alex Moore 1000/1

Danny Gorman 1000/1

Mike Keller 1000/1

Rodney Hamblin 1000/1

Bobby Park 1000/1

Eric Hawerchuk 1000/1

Ethan Castle 1000/1

Colton West 1000/1

Preston Alder  1000/1

Matt Bohrer 1000/1

Conner Burdick 1000/1

Logan Holt 1000/1

Terry Cook 1000/1

Mitchell Homb 1000/1

Lamar Carlile 1000/1

Ari Gulugian 1000/1

Peter Badawy  1000/1

Zach Allred 1000/1

Mitch McDowell 1000/1

Connor Klein 1000/1

Bradley Harrelson 1000/1

Willie Yacknow 1000/1

Marcus Bantel 1000/1

Mikkel Reese   1000/1

Nicholas Shanahan 1000/1

Dominic Brutocao       1000/1

Michael Pfitzner 2000/1

Eric Condry 2000/1

Dave Yarnes 2000/1

Michael Dominick 2000/1

Luke Kristo 2000/1

Cole Adams 2000/1

Nicholas Timm 2000/1

James Andrews 2000/1

Gabe Laske 2000/1

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Some Daly tales are also the stuff of legend, most notably his love for Diet Coke. In last week’s Subpar Podcast, for example, he told hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz that the most Diet Cokes he’s had in one day was 28. Twenty-eight.

So, with Daly fresh on their minds, two-time PGA Tour winner Kevin Streelman had his own Big John story when he sat down with Subpar this week. Streelman said the first time he was paired with Daly was in the third round of the 2008 Mayakoba in Mexico. Streelman was a rookie, and Daly was the well-known giant he still is today, so Streelman said it was quite the thrill to tee it up alongside him. He also said it was ridiculously hot and humid that day. Streelman was pounding waters. Daly, on the other hand, had a different go-to drink.

“My caddie and I had a wager though,” Streelman said on Subpar. “It was over/under on the number of heaters and over/under on the number of Diet Cokes he’d have. We put it at 18 cigarettes and I think it was 10 Diet Cokes. And he went over on both of those. He had a smoke a hole, two on the par-5s. And he literally had like 12 or 13 Diet Cokes without one single water. It was one of the most athletic things I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Daly shot a one-over 71, and Streelman signed for a 67. He also said the round was a blast.

“He was great,” Streelman said. “Class act. Down to earth. Fun. Relaxed. I really enjoyed playing with him.”

You can watch the entire Subpar episode with Streelman below.

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