re: in honor of the last round of PGA Q School

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The ball struck the top edge of the cup liner and bounced back toward Daley. The cup liner by rule has to be set an inch beneath the putting surface, but it was dislodged, likely by a wary flagstick.
Daley was livid. He stepped back, hurled his black hat to the ground and pointed to the hole in disbelief. He stood with his hand on his hip, never taking his eye off the cup and conceded a triple bogey.
"It was the damnedest thing I had ever seen," he told reporters that day.
Before that hole, Daley was at 16 under and high on the leader board with two rounds to play. He played the next two days at 1 under. He missed his ticket to the PGA Tour by one stroke. A PGA Tour veteran in 1996 and '98, he never returned.


Twelve years later, Daley is sitting at No. 2 on the leader board of the Constellation Senior Players Championship after posting rounds of 66 and 64 at Fox Chapel Fox Golf Club. He was asked to recall the 2000 putt. He laughed and assented, his voice rising in anguish.

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