{"id":506475,"date":"2026-03-06T03:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506475\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:37:09","slug":"beach-time-john-daly-ii-plans-to-rest-enjoy-puerto-rico-after-first-pga-tour-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506475\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach time! John Daly II plans to rest, enjoy Puerto Rico after first PGA Tour round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico\u2019s beaches probably didn\u2019t need the extra publicity but John Daly II gave them just that following his opening round at Grand Reserve Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>The amateur, who is graduating from the<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/keyxOooxr2s?si=xFDIvyLXRJuV_cx3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> University of Arkansas this spring<\/a>, completed his first 18 PGA Tour holes at the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/2026\/puerto-rico-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Puerto Rico Open<\/a> on Thursday and told reporters that rest was in order. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say I\u2019d go hit balls, but I\u2019m a little tired so I\u2019m just probably going to go to the beach and probably do absolutely nothing for the rest of the day,\u201d Daly II said.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old son of John Daly collected four birdies and finished T-21 with a 2-under 70 on the day.<\/p>\n<p>His most impressive moment came when he holed out with a phenomenal pitch down the slope on the 16th hole.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeel like I left a few out there, but I made it up with just a couple good saves and nice chip-in on 16,\u201d Daly II said.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the second round on Friday, he sits six strokes behind <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/chandler-blanchet-leads-with-john-daly-ii-under-par-in-pga-tour-debut-in-puerto-rico\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leader Chandler Blanchet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Defending tournament champion Karl Vilips is not in the field this year, taking the week after being cut at last week\u2019s Cognizant Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico\u2019s beaches probably didn\u2019t need the extra publicity but John Daly II gave them just that following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-506475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}