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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.


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