Regular readers of this blog know about the rich Texas legacy in golf (for example, see here, here, here, here, and here). However, it doesn’t look as if Texas Governor Rick Perry is doing much to facilitate that grand heritage. Seems that Governor Perry played golf last week in the PGA Tour’s Frys.com Open in Las Vegas, where he was the amateur partner of John Daly during the first round. Apparently, “Long John” was not particularly pleased with the pairing:

Daly favors the softer Maxfli Fire but says he has been receiving a much harder ball, which he attributed to a first-round 3-over-par 74 at TPC at The Canyons.
(It was either that or the fact Daly continued losing focus waiting for amateur Rick Perry to reach the green in a timely fashion on most holes. I’m pretty convinced Texas today is by far our nation’s most efficiently run state, because it’s impossible to believe its governor spends much time playing golf.
Perry did, however, bring along a security contingent complete with those Secret Service-type ear pieces, which would have been interesting if it wasn’t so laughable given the only thing most knew about him was that he was the guy you backed up 20 yards from each time he addressed a shot.)

Ouch! H/t to Bogey McDuff.