The Legend Of JD
We love John Daly. Besides being the most talented golfer in the world (if he practised as much as Tiger Woods he´d be too good for anyone), he´s also a blinding songwriter too.
One of his best songs is called "All My Exes Wear Rolexes" on account of previous wives who have taken him to the cleaners. Most men would be battled scarred for life but Long John soldiers on.
He´s hit the headlines this week for a public spat with nauseating American golf coach-cum-pundit Butch Harmon.
Harmon, who along with the rest of the sycophants on the Sky Sports golf team consistently subject viewers to a painful periods of old boy network back slapping, recently sacked Daly over suspicions of heavy drinking.
Daly was seen lashing the beers back in a Hooters tent at the recent Pods Championship in Florida. And the fact that Harmon went public is believed to have cost Daly several lucrative contracts. Daly says he was entertaining guests for a charity he runs.
Either way it´s a shocking way to treat one of the true characters of the game. Sport needs characters like Daly. When he rocked up at the 1991 PGA Championship nobody knew him. He kipped in his car all week and shot the lights on the course to win his first Major.
When he won the Open Championship four years later the first thing he said when he grabbed the microphone in his victory speech was "Jeez it feels great to win a Major sober."
What a legend. Cheers JD on at the Italian Open this weekend. To bet on sports check out Bodog Sports.
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