John Daly tweets about swollen knee, faces challenges at Senior PGA Championship

It's been a rough ride for John Daly at the PGA Tour of Champions. The American golfer has been struggling with his game since the beginning of the year. He even withdrew from the PGA Championship at Oak Hills citing an undisclosed malady last week.

Injury has seemingly been the valid explanation for his degrading performance. Despite that, the PGA Champions players decided to give it a try at the Senior PGA Championship, which is underway at Field Ranch Fast in Texas from May 25 to May 28.

John Daly started the game with a double bogey and then again made a double bogey at the 13th after which he called it a day citing swelling in his knee. Just within hours of withdrawing from the Senior major Championship, John Daly ripped the PGA Tour on Twitter, saying:

"So hard to play tee boxes that are down grade. Golf course is great but I wish they would make their tee boxes level! We are not young anymore!! Some guys are ADA and we can not follow through on down hill tee boxes!! I’m sorry @PGA you are going the wrong way in golf but I love y’all. But you are making holes really really long.. St Andrew’s never had a downhill tee box. Quit while your NOT ahead…. Thank you 13."

So hard to play tee boxes that are down grade. Golf course is great but I wish they would make their tee boxes level! We are not young anymore!! Some guys are ADA and we can not follow through on down hill tee boxes!! I’m sorry @PGA you are going the wrong way in golf but I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… https://t.co/Uajbg2HRA4

John Daly ended the message by sarcastically complimenting the 13th hole, a reference to the hole on which he decided to withdraw from the Senior major.

It is worth noting that John Daly had knee replacement surgery in December, shortly after competing in the PNC Championship.

Padraig Harrington secures the lead at the Senior PGA Championship

After the second round of the 2023 Senior PGA Championship, Padraig Harrington secured the lead with a scoring deficit of 12. He registered a three-stroke lead in the tournament.

Katsuyama Miyamoto sits at the second position followed by Stewart Cink, while last year's winner Steven Alker finished in a three-way at ninth place alongside Miguel Angel Jimenez and Marco Dawson.

Here's the full leaderboard of the Senior PGA Championship Round 2:

1. Padraig Harrington
2. Katsuyama Miyamoto
3. Stewart Cink
4. Steve Stricker
T5. Y.E. Yang
T5. Adilson da Silva
T5. Alex Cejka
T5. Darren Clarke
T9. Miguel Angel Jimenez
T9. Steven Alker
T9. Marco Dawson
T12. Retief Goosen
T12. David Toms
T12. Stephen Ames
T15. Chris DiMarco
T15. David Branshaw
T15. Colin Morikawa
T15. Robert Kartsson
T19. Steven Flesch
T19. Lee Janzen
T19. Scott MaCarron
T19. Rocco Mediate
T19. Shaun Michael
T19. Thomas Bjorn
T19. Vijay Singh
T19. Paul Stankowski
T27. Glen Day
T27. Jerry Kelly
T27. Bernhard Langer
T27. Justin Leonard
T27. Richard Green
T27. Hiroyuki Fujita
T27. K.J Choi
T27. Charlie Wu
T35. Bob Estes
T35. Paul Broadhust
T35. Ken Tanjgasa
T35. Timothy O'Neal
T39. Clark Dennis
T39. Gary Wolstenholme
T39. Harrison Frazar
T39. Mark Hensby
T39. Rod Pampling
T39. Corey Pavin
T39. Phillip Price
T39. Dicky Pride
T39. Cameron Doan
T39. Kevin Sutherland
T39. Mike Weir
T39. Tom Grills
T39. Arjun Atwal
T39. Ricardo Gonzalez
T39. James Kingston
T39. Dave McNabb