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Cutting an unmistakable figure in red, white and blue
American flag pants, Daly tapped in his winning putt from one
inch to finish at 14-under-par 202 at The Woodlands outside
Houston.
"It's awesome," Daly told Golf Channel after being doused in
champagne on the 18th green.
"Hey, a win's a win. I hung in there and did the best I could.
It wasn't pretty at the end but I got it done. That's all that
matters."
Daly, nicknamed 'Wild Thing' by the British tabloids back in the
1990s due to his hard-partying lifestyle, won five times on the
PGA Tour, including two major championships, the 1991 PGA and
1995 British Open.
Daly was the longest hitter on tour for the first part of his
career, in an era before metal-headed drivers became
commonplace.
Now 51, he became eligible for the Champions Tour last April.
He had not won on the PGA Tour since 2004, losing a playoff to
Tiger Woods at the 2005 WGC-American Express Championship.
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina)
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