The Open odd couple: DeChambeau and Daly pairing proves inspired
by Kevin Mitchell at St Andrews from US news | The Guardian on (#61DP1)
After their first round together as professionals, the wildly contrasting Americans ended day one like old friends
It is doubtful this 150th Open could have thrown up bigger beasts of such towering cultural polarity as Bryson James Aldrich DeChambeau and Long John Daly. Yet, after their first round together, they ended day one like old friends. If they never meet again, they will cherish this memory at least.
Asking the 28-year-old cerebral timebomb from California and the bewhiskered good old boy from Arkansas to gambol alongside each other over the rolling landscape of the Old Course - in company with the altogether uncontroversial Cameron Tringale - turned out to be inspired match-making.
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