Long John has been getting lots of press covering his PGA Tour file. Including 21 citations for not giving his best effort and listed on a 456-page rap sheet.

However John’s most pressing problem is his putting.

"I don't have anywhere to put my elbows when I putt now," Daly said. "That's the problem. I used to be able to rest my right elbow right perfectly on my right fat part of my stomach when I putted, and now I can't do that."

So if you’ve also experienced and overcome such a problem I’m sure “Grip it, and rip it” would appreciate it if you dropped him a line at his web site.

In case you missed the Sunday News article about Cambo who believes it’s going to be a good year for him.

So why does he think it’s going to be a good year?

"My golf goes in five-year cycles," Cambo said. "Go back to all my great years: 1995 was a great year for me when I finished third in the British Open and fifth on the European Tour order of merit; 2000 I won four times, finished top five in Europe again; and in 2005 I won my first Major.

"So 2010, if my maths are right, it's going to be a big year."

My thought is that if it’s going to be a good year it will be due to him stopping mucking about with his swing.

God forbid that should I ever reach a pinnacle in my golfing life and then start changing what worked, for something which maybe will work better.

Can’t recall the names but Cambo is not alone in changing things after having won a big one.

Cambo’s cure is; "Basically, I've always faded the ball from left-to-right. I wanted to draw the ball right-to-left which means you get more distance. I'm going back to what worked before and hopefully it will fall into place.”

And then there’s his David Duval-like admission, "Winning my first Major was like climbing Mt Everest. You think, `what's after that?' There's no higher mountain to climb."

Michael said, "All it takes is one good week, one good day, one good round and I'll be away." And although it sounds simplistic, sometimes that’s all it takes to turn your game around.

“These are the times that try men’s (golfing) souls”, as Thomas Paine would have said if he’d played golf and was experiencing a slump, instead of focusing on what became the American Revolutionary war.

Thought for the day:

“Last year, I’m sure the British Open seemed light years away to him. But really you never know. You’ve got to seize the day”
                       Zach Johnson commenting on Ben Curtis winning The Open

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