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PGA Championship spotlight is on Tiger Woods' momentum and John Daly's wheels

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. - John Daly was a sight to behold Wednesday, rolling around Bethpage Black - a course that traditionally doesn't allow carts - with his green-swirled surfing shorts, a cigarette dangling from his lips and his platinum mullet glistening in the sun.

"Let's go, Johnnie!" rang the encouraging shouts from the gallery, cheers for an unvarnished man of the people knocking his way around a brutal, undulating, 7,426-yard public course.

This could be a weird PGA Championship.

One month removed from the most dramatic Masters in

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