During the phone interview for this story, Kelly
was watching the NHL playoffs in his hotel room
on the night before the HP Byron Nelson
Championship in Dallas. With violent thunderstorms and tornadoes raging outside, he was
yelling at the TV during the first game between his
beloved Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red
Wings. "I have a friendly wager with Mike Weir,"
he laughs. Canadian Weir is another huge hockey
fan on the Tour.
(Kelly, who has the looks of a hockey player, also
follows the NHL's San Jose Sharks because of his
friendship with Madison native and University of
Wisconsin graduate Adam Burish, the team's right
winger.)
Though Kelly sometimes feels like he still practices
and plays hockey, he chalks up the aches and pains
to age. The way he's golfing this year, however, we
might soon be talking about him as one of the oldest winners on the PGA Tour.
On other PGA Tour topics: Kelly thinks belly putters should be banned and blood testing done. And
he thinks it's essentially a dead issue bringing the
Tour back to Wisconsin after the US Bank
Championship in Milwaukee was axed from the
schedule several years ago.
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