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It was 7am on Thursday morning when Danny Walker felt that his phone began to resonate in a restroom in the TPC Sugras Locker Rooms.
The call itself continued for a few minutes, but for the PGA Tour, its impact has not been less than changing life before-and can be even better.
In the last minute of the former World No.1, the evacuation saw that Jason Day parachute Walker in the Players Championships, where a Florida resident has pushed forward to better perform a large number of the biggest stars of the game.
Listed as the first alternative to the 51st edition of the PGA Tour’s flagship event, a 29 -year -old traveled short from his home from his home in Jacksonville to Ponta Vedra Beach, only when a player came out.
After seeing the action from behind the ropes last year, the dream of the first film of a tournament was delayed in at least 12 months when the call never informed Walker that the 2015 PGA Championship was withdrawn due to the day of illness.
The news was a kind of surprise that needed a few moments of isolation.
“That means the world for me,” Walker told reporters Thursday. “I wanted to play in this event because I was a toddler, especially living here locally … I couldn’t be more excited.
“I went and then sat in my car for a few minutes and just in a way he hit me a little, maybe let’s take a tear … I tried to get out quickly so that I could rest and play.”
The bombings did not stop there.
Joining World No. 284 Walker was a pair of Major Champions for 8:46 am: Jordan Speth and Windham Clark.
It was a valuable company for a golfer who received only PGA tour cards last year, with 28th position on the Corn Ferry Tour, which was a development tour for the top circuit.
Yet, Walker showed no hint of threats in his 19th career round of PGA Tour Golf, in which the famous 17th crossing of the Stadium Course was included in the opening One Over 73 carding route-2023 US Open Champion Clark is just more stroke.
Nevertheless, he left the University of Virginia with work to make the weekend. This goal was visible at the distance because six Birds saw that Walker reached the 17th T four underparts on Friday for the second round, for only two closed boogies to see if the overall one would be enough to squeeze from the under -crossed cross.
The cut line settled on the one under the under-under-under-Under-Under-one with his dental skin.
Absent with the host of big stars – the winner of the PGA Tour from Matt Fitz Prakat and Brian Herman, Victor Holand and Max Huma, from Walker left for the early round of the third round on Saturday, where the 2019 Open champion Shane Lauri waited for his game partner.
“It was a bit unrealistic, Walker told reporters on Saturday.” “I never met any of these boys, so just liked them and removed it from the way. Like, ‘Well, now we can play golf now.’
The first hole or more, I was very nervous and then managed to find some rhythm.
The rhythm was a small thing. When Lauri worked hard towards the disappointing two overs 74, Walker traveled around a sharp air-free TPC Sugras with a sharp air-free six under 66 to return to the club house within a high speed 10-before the second round leader Manwu Lee and Akshay Bhattia began with four shots.
Walker said, “It was just a good hair strike day where I was hitting it,” he added that he played the course nearly 100 times after going to Jackson Wheel in 2019.
“I was targeting the lines of my start, that was the key.”
Living within the Top 10 will lead to an extraordinary salary for Walker, who, in the early 2022, worked as a waiter in the Bahama air before deciding to return to the golf, According to Its PGA Tour Bio.
This year’s Players Championship will be awarded 681,250 SL Slice for a $ 25 million reward purse (without any relationship) – which has accumulated 684,667 walker in 97 incidents since the professional change in 2018.
Of these, approximately $ 180,000 revenue started in 2025 with a five -PGA tour, mostly in February the tide ended at the Mexico Open, which paid approximately $ 7 137,000.
However, on Saturday evening, Walker’s concept was more important than how he would spend any possible victory.
“Perhaps you blow, or try,” he said. “I didn’t get too much sleep last night, so see if I can make up for it.”
