Everyone wanted to talk to Brett Quigley in 2001. And they all had the same question: What club was he swinging off the tee? That was a familiar feeling for the 5-foot-11, 160-pound Quigley. “I’ve always hit it long for my size,” he said in a phone interview this week. But it felt different when fellow PGA pros were the ones trying to copy his driver in 2001, after the slender Quigley ranked second to John Daly and ahead of Tiger Woods in driving distance with an average of 298.5 yards. “That brought me a lot of attention, which is great,” said Quigley, who will play in the Rockford Pro-Am on Monday at Forest Hills Country Club. “The biggest compliment people paid to me, and they didn’t realize they were complimenting me, is probably 30 pros asked me what kind of driver I was using. They tried to have one made up the same way. “They thought it was the club. It was funny. It’s been that way my whole life. People take a look at me and think, ‘No way you can do that!’ They have clubs made up identical to mine, looking for the magic pill.” It’s not the club. “It’s clubhead speed,” said Quigley, who compares the delayed cock of his wrists with Sergio Garcia’s famously wristy swing. “I create a lot of speed through lag. I also fire my hips quickly,” he said. Quigley, 38, seems born to play on the PGA Tour. His uncle, Dana Quigley, was the Rockford Pro-Am headliner two years ago when he was the reigning Senior Tour Player of the Year. An ...
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Everyone wanted to talk to Brett Quigley in 2001. And they all had the same question: What club was he swinging off the tee? That was a familiar feeling for the 5-foot-11, 160-pound Quigley. “I’ve always hit it long for my size,” he said in a phone interview this week. But it felt different when fellow PGA pros were the ones trying to copy his driver in 2001, after the slender Quigley ranked second to John Daly and ahead of Tiger Woods in driving distance with an average of 298.5 yards. “That brought me a lot of attention, which is great,” said Quigley, who will play in the Rockford Pro-Am on Monday at Forest Hills Country Club. “The biggest compliment people paid to me, and they didn’t realize they were complimenting me, is probably 30 pros asked me what kind of driver I was using. They tried to have one made up the same way. “They thought it was the club. It was funny. It’s been that way my whole life. People take a look at me and think, ‘No way you can do that!’ They have clubs made up identical to mine, looking for the magic pill.” It’s not the club. “It’s clubhead speed,” said Quigley, who compares the delayed cock of his wrists with Sergio Garcia’s famously wristy swing. “I create a lot of speed through lag. I also fire my hips quickly,” he said. Quigley, 38, seems born to play on the PGA Tour. His uncle, Dana Quigley, was the Rockford Pro-Am headliner two years ago when he was the reigning Senior Tour Player of the Year. An ...