Jon Gruden Caddies for John Daly, Somehow Manages to Make Him Worse

This is easily the most interesting news to come out of the PODS Championship, which, as it turns out, isn't a Nationwide event, but an actual tournament on the PGA calendar. Anyway, John Daly, who can't even manage to shoot even-par golf at a tournament nobody's watching, had a new caddie on the bag for part of yesterday's round.

After a two-hour rain delay, Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden took time out from randomly grimacing at people to carry Daly's bag on the back nine Thursday.

Daly spent the rain delay at the Hooters Owl's Nest, a corporate hospitality tent near the 11th fairway, when he hooked up with Gruden. That's when he hatched the plan to turn the Bucs' coach into a caddie the rest of the afternoon.

Did a new caddie help? "Oh, yeah," Daly said. "He fires you up."

And by "fires you up," Daly means "helps you go from 3 over to 7 over in the span of seven holes." (Also, I'm very surprised to learn Daly bolted for the Hooters tent as soon as it started to rain. That's not like him.)

After seven bogeys and no birdies yesterday, the Daly has sandwiched four birdies around five consecutive bogeys today. And he has six holes to play. Despite the mini-comeback, Daly's still at 10 over, 16 shots off the lead. Or for a different, more familiar perspective, three shots out of last place. Yep, that tour card should be coming any day now.