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Daly back for Australian PGA: organisers


Two-time major champion John Daly John Daly is the name of:
  • John Charles Daly, veteran radio & TV newsman and television host on What's My Line?
  • John Daly (athlete), a British athlete who won an Olympic silver medal.
  • John Daly (golfer), a professional golfer on the PGA Tour.
 will return to play in the Australian PGA Championship The Australian PGA Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship, is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia. It is the home tournament of the Australian PGA and dates back to 1905.  in December, the PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used.

(2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA.
 of Australia said on Thursday.

The 43-year-old American will play in Australia?s oldest professional event for the second consecutive year at Coolum in Queensland, where last year he helped to generate record galleries.

On his last visit to Australia, Daly missed the cut in the Australian Masters The MasterCard Masters is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia. It is played annually in December at Huntingdale Golf Club in Huntingdale, Victoria, Australia. In 2006 it was co-sanctioned by the European Tour for the first time.  in Melbourne, the Australian PGA Championship and the Australian Open
    This article is about the Australian Open tennis tournament. For the Australian Open golf tournament, see Australian Open (golf).
The Australian Open is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments to be held each year.
 over successive weeks.

During last December's Australian Open at Royal Sydney Daly made headlines when he smashed a spectator's camera against a tree after the golf fan tried to take his picture from close range.

Daly, known for his long drives and flamboyant life away from the course, returned to the US PGA Tour The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the USA's main professional golf tours. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR".  in June after the lifting of a six-month suspension, imposed for conduct detrimental to the game's image.

"You think you're going to be out here for life. I took that for granted. I didn't take all the golf tournaments as serious as I should have," Daly said on his return to the US PGA Tour. "But the good news is I can still salvage a great career."

Daly has subsequently lost weight and hopes to reclaim at least a measure of the form that saw him capture the 1991 US PGA Championship and 1995 British Open titles.

The Australian PGA Championship is scheduled for December 10-13 and will be the final leg of the 2009 OneAsia Super Series.
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