‘I put the clubs away and started working for UPS – I was done’

Tour

Sep 24, 2019

He's is most in-form golfer on the planet, but there was a time when David Shacklady gave up on the game. He takes us through the highs and lows

David Shacklady is part of a rare breed of golfer who comes to the Staysure Tour without the relative riches of the European Tour behind him.

Ormskirk’s Shacklady has done it the hard way, playing a collection of PGA, pro-ams and regional events to get by, something he managed to do for over 30 years.

But then came his 50th birthday and, shortly after, his greatest disappointment when he failed to make it onto the Staysure Tour. Now, though, he is very much a part of things and has his feet very nicely under the table.

We spoke to him at the Scottish Senior Open, a tournament he finished in a tie for 4th, before then winning his next two events.

Here he talks about his journey to where he is today, how close he came to packing it all in and the darts legends that he’s taken on along the way.

Mark Townsend

Been watching and playing golf since the early 80s and generally still stuck in this period. Huge fan of all things Robert Rock, less so white belts. Handicap of 8, fragile mind and short game