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07.02.05 Hvordan gikk det med "guttungen"?
Han er den yngste som kom
gjennom Tour School i USA
Men så ble han borte. Hva er
skjedd?
Ty Tryon var bare 16 år da
han kom med i 2001 Honda
Classic gjennom
mandagskvalifiseringen. Han
endte på en flott 39. plass
i turneringen.
Forventningene steg
himmelhøyt da han som den
yngste gjennom tidene klarte
å få kortet på
kvalifiseringsskolen. the
PGA Tour var lite vellykket.
Han fikk "kyssesyken" og
tjente bare 8.000 dollar på
åtte starter det året. I
2003 fikk han være med på
tour'en hvor han fikk "a
major medical exemption".
Han tjente bare 125.000
dollar på 21 starter. Langt
fra nok til å beholde
kortet. Året etter endte han
på 199. plass på Nationwide
Tour med bare 9.000
innspilte dollar på 22
starter.
Nylig vant han for første
gang siden han vant the PGA
Junior Championship med hele
10 slag i år 2000. Han vant
11.000 dollar i førstepremie
i en turnering på
Hooters
Tour i Florida på
Legends Golf Club. Han var
18 undre par
etter rundene 67-64-67.
Kanskje dette var det første
skrittet tilbake til spill i
de øverste divisjonene
igjen?
Selv sier han at han nå
satser på å vinne. Det
spiller ingen rolle hvor,
men han er interessert i å
fylle opp sin hjemmelagde
premiehylle.
Tillegg 16. januar 2009:
Ty Tryon har ikke klart å
komme tilbake. Han forsvant
i første kval-omgang til PGA
Tour'en sist høst med en
87-runde på 3. runden. I
2007 stoppet det i den andre
kval-omgangen.
Dette ble skrevet i The
Vancouver Sun 17. mai 2007:
Den triste historien om
Ty Tryon
Ty Tryon was touted as the
next Tiger Woods when he
became the second youngest
player to make a cut in a
PGA Tour event at age 16 at
the Honda Classic in March
2001. He ended that year as
the youngest player to earn
a PGA Tour card.
What happened to him? Tryon
turns 23 next month, is
married, has a infant son
named Tyson and lives in
Hobe Sound, Fla., but he has
effectively gone from
prodigy to a bust as
professional golfer. He's in
a desperate search to find
his game, playing in
relative obscurity on the
Gateway Tour in the U.S.
To date, he's missed the cut
in nine of 14 events this
season and withdrew from two
others. Total earnings:
$3,661.66.
Tryon's saga isn't a story
of how the mighty have
fallen as much as it is
about how a teenager with
promising talent was
misguided by parents and
over-hyped in the theatre of
sport. He was gobbled up by
corporate giants, in his
case Callaway Golf (which
banked on him being to them
what Woods is to Nike), all
too quick to dole out
millions in sponsorship
dollars long before he had
an opportunity to prove
himself worthy.
With his parents' approval,
Tryon passed up an
opportunity to attend
college, where he would have
a) received an education, b)
enjoyed one of life's great
experiences, and c) honed
his golf skills in a
intensely competitive
environment.
Instead he headed to the PGA
Tour, showing up at events
with an entourage larger
than life, and certainly
bigger than Woods's, with
his agent, a swing coach, an
image consultant, a
psychologist, a yoga
instructor and a couple of
massage therapists. Unlike
Woods, however, he couldn't
walk the walk.
Tryon, who forced the PGA
Tour to adopt a minimum-age
limit of 18 to be eligible
to play fulltime after he
earned his card, played in
six Tour tournaments in
2002, earning $8,620, and 21
in 2003, making $125,875,
well below the earnings
needed to retain his card.
Since then, he has bounced
around as wildly as an
errant drive into a forest
of trees, playing in Asia,
Europe, Australia and for a
time on the Canadian Tour.
With the exception of
winning a NGA/Hooters Tour
Winter Series event in
February 2005, his first
professional victory and
worth $11,000, he's done
little to convince anyone he
might some day be the player
he was projected to be.
He's become a poster child
of what not to do to a young,
aspiring athlete who clearly
isn't ready for prime time.
Tryon was born William
Augustus Tryon IV, but his
parents called him Ty after
Chevy Chase's character, Ty
Webb, in the golf movie
Caddyshack. Here's hoping he
doesn't end up as a
real-life golf comedy.
Hvis han kommer tilbake i
rampelyset vil det bli et av
tidenes største idrettslige
come backs.
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