BOCA RATON – Among the 81 professional golfers at this week’s TimberTech Championship, a guy who can pull out a guitar and sing wonderful country ballads.
We’re also talking about John Daly.
Colt Ford can beat Daly on as much as Daly can beat Ford on the golf course. Ford, who in his past life, a professional golf singer named Jason Brown, played briefly on the now-called Korn Ferry Tour and other mini tours in the 1990s and taught golf before turning to country music.
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Ford has won a sponsor waiver for this week’s PGA Tour champions’ occasion at the Broken Sound Club. Ford will not only play in pro-ams, but will also fit score cards with Hall of Fame members Bernhard Langer and Ernie Els, and Daly, in the 54-hole tournament that takes place Friday through Sunday.
Ford also won a sponsor waiver at Sanford International last month in South Dakota, whether tournaments were made through Pro Links Sports, where he beat 80 each and every 3 rounds, but finished last in the box with one shot.
“I’m very excited to start here,” Ford said Monday before receiving a lesson from PGA professional Mike Malizia at Banyan Creek Golf Club in Palm City.
“I’ve done it (I’ve played professional golf) for a long time in the past, but that’s a long time ago. While I play music, those guys play golf every day.
Ford, 51, made his mulligan career. He sold 3 million albums and co-wrote one of the best-selling country music songs of all time, “Dirt Road Anthem”.
He that the difference between making birdsies and hit songs is like day and night.
“In passlf, it’s time to get up when top musicians go to bed,” Ford said with a smile. “The boys get up to hit balls when the party’s over. “
You can write a country song about Ford’s life. He played golf at school in Georgia and then turned professional. Known as “JB”, he won some mini-tours, but after getting married and having a child, he knew he needed more money. Security.
Ford returned to his love moment — music — and reinvented his image. He knew Jason Brown was not going to move the needle, so his wife to Colt
“I idea ‘perfect,’ Ford said, “what does more American sound like than that?”
Malizia has known Brown, uh, Ford, since they played junior golf in combination at age 12. Malizia said Ford was a smart striker who also knew how to sing.
“He’s touched and raped, ” said Malizia. ” It was good, but a lot of other people didn’t like country music at the time. Once country music became popular, his career took off. “
Ford fired rounds 74-78-72 at Sanford International, completing only one shot by Gary Nicklaus. Ford failed to succeed in his general purpose of not completing the latter, however, he beat several players in the first and third rounds.
“I was nervous, and it didn’t help that I did 52 degrees and it was raining,” Ford said. “I have learned that my intelligence is as intelligent as your intelligence. But my wickedness is not as intelligent as theirs. “
Ford participates on notable occasions such as pebble Beach Pro-Am, Diamond Resorts International and the American Championship of the Century. He has already won $100,000 for St. Children’s Hospital. Jude in a contest as close to the pin as imaginable in Pebble Beach. .
Ford realizes that he has to paint mentally if he needs to play well at his competitive time. “I just have to make more important decisions,” he said. You’re aiming at all the bowling here. Just because you can make a shot doesn’t mean you have to make a shot. “
Malizia won a Call from Ford three years ago to start running with the artist’s game. Malizia said she was looking for Ford to behave more like a singer on the golf course.
“When he plays on stage, he doesn’t think about what he’s doing,” Malizia said. “He concentrates and reacts to the crowd. That’s what you have to do in golf. Get off the left side (analytical) of the brain and compete. “
Ford prefers to play with a microphone in hand than with a golf club, but the coronavirus pandemic has practically ended the music industry (there will be no spectators this week at The Old Course). Ford said he usually play more than 130 performances a year. however, it has only controlled 40 this year.
“I’ve done more exhibitions than anyone else, but that’s not enough,” he said. “My organization and my team, my bus driver, is not a hobby. That’s what we do in life. Playing golf helped me” my mood. I don’t take the chance to play with those guys lightly. “
Ford said some of his old golfer friends like Chris DiMarco and Jim Furyk might call him “JB” this week, but they probably wouldn’t get much answer. It’s no big deal.
“I’m in that mood, ” he said. ” Besides, Colt Ford looks a lot cooler than Jason Brown. “