Davies still a golf original

You have got to love Laura Davies. Through all of her success, she has remained one of the unique personalities in golf.
Davies has won 74 events in her professional career, including four major championships. One of those was the Women’s British Open at the age of 22 in 1986 at Royal Birkdale, where this week’s Ricoh Women’s British Open is being played.
Davies has always done things a little differently. When she played in the LPGA event at Wachesaw East in 1997, she also moonlighted as a soccer player for a few minutes as a member of the Myrtle Beach SeaDawgs soccer team in the first-year franchise's home opener the Friday night of the tournament. In future events at Wachesaw East she used a local friend as her caddie.
She has never been much for practice in order to keep the game fun, and was asked this week about her preparation for the Women’s British Open.
“Nothing has changed, just the same, an hour before tee time and no practice rounds because they are boring and slow, and play the Pro-Am every week, have fun with your amateurs. That's my buildup to any golf tournament, whether it's the Thailand Open or the U.S. Open, it’s always the same.”
She was asked how long ago she dispensed with the practice round? “Well, this is my 26th year, so 25 and a half years ago. Watching people chip and putt from every angle on a green for four or five or six hours in a day is not my idea of fun. Never has been, never will be.”