John Daly AWOL
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John Daly has missed his pro-am time at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and faces disqualification from the tournament. His curious absence comes one day after he was fired by his swing coach.
Daly lost his PGA Tour card two years ago and was invited to Bay Hill on a sponsor's exemption. Under PGA Tour regulations, anyone who misses the pro-am without a valid reason cannot play in the tournament.
A call to Daly's agent was not immediately returned Wednesday.
Butch Harmon, one of golf's most renowned teachers, said Tuesday night he was done working with Daly because of his behavior last week at the PODS Championship. Daly used Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden as a caddie and spent Saturday drinking at a corporate tent on the course.
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John Daly has missed his pro-am time at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and faces disqualification from the tournament. His curious absence comes one day after he was fired by his swing coach.
Daly lost his PGA Tour card two years ago and was invited to Bay Hill on a sponsor's exemption. Under PGA Tour regulations, anyone who misses the pro-am without a valid reason cannot play in the tournament.
A call to Daly's agent was not immediately returned Wednesday.
Butch Harmon, one of golf's most renowned teachers, said Tuesday night he was done working with Daly because of his behavior last week at the PODS Championship. Daly used Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden as a caddie and spent Saturday drinking at a corporate tent on the course.
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sadly - i agree
he is gonna live life his way - as short as that may be. will be interesting to see who dies first: Daly, Britney or Amy Winehouse
too close to call
sadly - i agree
he is gonna live life his way - as short as that may be. will be interesting to see who dies first: Daly, Britney or Amy Winehouse
too close to call
OMNIVOROUS FROG
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He's in some gutter somewhere passed out. Or his wife beat the shit out of him. I always wanted that match made in heaven, him marrying Tonya Harding, but getting his ass kicked by her with a garbage can lid daily must have scared him off. I think he is just back in training somewhere.
Damn I could use a drink.
Best wishes...oF :cheers
He's in some gutter somewhere passed out. Or his wife beat the shit out of him. I always wanted that match made in heaven, him marrying Tonya Harding, but getting his ass kicked by her with a garbage can lid daily must have scared him off. I think he is just back in training somewhere.
Damn I could use a drink.
Best wishes...oF :cheers
Ego74
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One goes hand in hand with the other, especially if you are a depressed individual with a self-destructive side
One goes hand in hand with the other, especially if you are a depressed individual with a self-destructive side
Blackcloud
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Sad. I met a guy years ago when Daly was first getting started on tour. He played at Daly's home club and told me then that Daly enjoyed drinking and gambling way too much to last very long on the tour or in life. But what a character. I saw him at an event right after he lost all his sponsorships the first time. He was wearing cargo pants, had a golf bag with Arkansas logo's on it and sipping something from a styofoam cub throughout the round.
Sad. I met a guy years ago when Daly was first getting started on tour. He played at Daly's home club and told me then that Daly enjoyed drinking and gambling way too much to last very long on the tour or in life. But what a character. I saw him at an event right after he lost all his sponsorships the first time. He was wearing cargo pants, had a golf bag with Arkansas logo's on it and sipping something from a styofoam cub throughout the round.
OMNIVOROUS FROG
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The guy would get three sheets to the wind, and lose tens of thousands playing $5 and $25 dollar slots. He had nobody looking out for him, and was left to his own demons, which he has many. Probably not a mean bone in his entrie body, but boy, what a waste of life, time and money, let alone talent. If there was ever someone I actually felt sorry for it was him. He desrved better.
Best Wishes...OF :cheers
The guy would get three sheets to the wind, and lose tens of thousands playing $5 and $25 dollar slots. He had nobody looking out for him, and was left to his own demons, which he has many. Probably not a mean bone in his entrie body, but boy, what a waste of life, time and money, let alone talent. If there was ever someone I actually felt sorry for it was him. He desrved better.
Best Wishes...OF :cheers
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I know Greta on Fox News Channel concentrates every night on missing white women stories, but I think she might make an exception with Daly.
I know Greta on Fox News Channel concentrates every night on missing white women stories, but I think she might make an exception with Daly.
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Daly disqualified after missing Bay Hill pro-am
John Daly disqualified from Arnold Palmer Invitational | Tours & News | Golf.com
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — John Daly woke up Wednesday morning to read that swing coach Butch Harmon fired him. Then he got a phone call when he was at the entrance to Bay Hill letting him know he had been kicked out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational for missing the pro-am.
"Hasn't been a good day," Daly told The Associated Press. "This is the last thing I needed in my life. I feel like I let Arnold down."
Daly, who received a sponsor's exemption, played a Monday pro-am at Bay Hill and said he was asked to play the Wednesday pro-am, too. He requested a morning start, then called Tuesday to find out his tee time. A woman in the tournament office told him 9:47 a.m., which instead was his starting time for the first round.
"I didn't even know that was my Thursday tee time," Daly said. "I should have looked into it. It stinks for me. I want to do anything I can for the tournament as a sponsor exemption. I wanted to meet the people I was playing with in the pro-am. I love Arnold Palmer to death. I called and talked to him and apologized.
"And the thing that upsets me is I cost Nick O'Hern and Ryuji Imada, so now I got these guys mad at me, too."
Daly disqualified after missing Bay Hill pro-am
John Daly disqualified from Arnold Palmer Invitational | Tours & News | Golf.com
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — John Daly woke up Wednesday morning to read that swing coach Butch Harmon fired him. Then he got a phone call when he was at the entrance to Bay Hill letting him know he had been kicked out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational for missing the pro-am.
"Hasn't been a good day," Daly told The Associated Press. "This is the last thing I needed in my life. I feel like I let Arnold down."
Daly, who received a sponsor's exemption, played a Monday pro-am at Bay Hill and said he was asked to play the Wednesday pro-am, too. He requested a morning start, then called Tuesday to find out his tee time. A woman in the tournament office told him 9:47 a.m., which instead was his starting time for the first round.
"I didn't even know that was my Thursday tee time," Daly said. "I should have looked into it. It stinks for me. I want to do anything I can for the tournament as a sponsor exemption. I wanted to meet the people I was playing with in the pro-am. I love Arnold Palmer to death. I called and talked to him and apologized.
"And the thing that upsets me is I cost Nick O'Hern and Ryuji Imada, so now I got these guys mad at me, too."
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Daly's getting a bad rap in all of this....here's the rest of the story from the link Ego provided...
Imada and O'Hern were alternates for the pro-am, and both thought they were assigned to the afternoon group. Instead, they were the first two names called when Daly didn't show, and when neither was around, they also were disqualified from the $5.8 million event.
O'Hern lives only five minutes away at Isleworth and was furious to learn he would not be eligible.
"When I should have been on the tee, I was giving my girls breakfast," O'Hern said. "I thought common sense would have prevailed. This is a tough one to take. Unfortunately, we got caught up in John's snowball effect."
The snowball is starting to look like an avalanche.
Daly lost his full PGA Tour card two years ago and relies mainly on sponsor exemptions. In seven events this year, he has missed the cut three times and withdrew from the Bob Hope Classic, where he was spotted at several after-hour parties.
His best finish was a tie for 60th in Mexico, an opposite-field event.
The Bay Hill mix-up comes one day after Harmon, one golf's most renowned swing coaches, said he was done working with Daly because the two-time major champion appeared more interested in drinking than working on his game.
"My whole goal for him was he's got to show me golf is the most important thing in his life," Harmon said. "And the most important thing in his life is getting drunk."
Harmon said Daly's behavior last week at the PODS Championship was enough to end the short-lived relationship.
Daly spent a 2 1/2-hour rain delay during the first round in a Hooters corporate tent behind the 17th green at Innisbrook. He was 3 over, and when play resumed, he had Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden caddie for him the rest of the day. After missing the cut with rounds of 77-80, Daly spent Saturday at the Hooters "Owl's Nest" next to the 17th hole, drinking beer, mingling with fans and signing autographs, including one on the back of a woman's pants.
"I just wish Butch had called me before getting slapped in the face," Daly said. "I love Butch to death. I still think he's the greatest coach out there. I just told him, 'Don't always believe what you read in the paper.' I texted him, 'All I wish you'd done is call me.' It was a shock to me."
As for his escapade at the Owl's Nest?
Daly said he thought he was doing the tournament a favor by drumming up business at the raucous tent.
"I signed about a thousand hats," Daly said. "I love Hooters. I had a few beers and some chicken wings. It was Saturday. I wasn't even playing in the tournament."
Daly has been on a downward spiral since losing a playoff to Tiger Woods in 2005 at Harding Park in a World Golf Championship event. He injured his ribs last year at the Honda Classic when he tried to stop his powerful swing upon hearing the click of a fan's camera, and Daly recently said he was contemplating a lawsuit against the tournament, which gave him a sponsor's exemption.
"My life is upside-down right now," Daly said. "No matter what I do, it's wrong. I'm thinking of writing a new song. I'll call it, 'I guess it's my fault, even when it's not my fault."'
Daly said he played Tuesday at a nearby course with Robert Gamez, who helped sort out his putting problems.
"I was looking forward to a great week," Daly said. "I've always had great success at Bay Hill. I usually don't ever miss the cut. I called Arnold, and said he feels just as bad about it. I saw him Monday and he gave me a big ol' hug and said, 'Thanks for being here."'
Success at Bay Hill is in the eye of the Wild Thing.
Daly has played 14 times at Palmer's event, and his best finish is a tie for 10th. He has missed the cut three times, and four times shot in the 80s in the final round. One of those scores came in 1998, when Daly hit six balls in the water on the par-5 sixth and made an 18.
"I hope things get better," Phil Mickelson said. "I think we all do."
....I've seen this story reported on ESPN umpteen times today and no one has reported it sorrectly. They all made it sound like Daly was at fault for missing the pro-am today, when in fact Daly was already present at another pro-am there on Monday and he asked to play in the Wed pro-am also but was given the wrong teetime information. I fault the tournament for that. A multi-million dollar tournament should be run better than this. It's not like Daly missed a flight and didn't show up in Orlando; he was there, probably living right on the course. All these players have cellphones; why wasn't he called? He was on the way to the course when his earlier teetime for the pro-am teed off. I just always assumed these big tournaments had liaison people all over the place making sure their golfers were being taken care of properly, certainly not being given the wrong teetime information! I think less about the Bayhill Invitational and certainly much less about Butch Harmon than I do about John Daly, who is getting all the blame for this today. Most amazing are the comments by the two alternates, who are trying to blame Daly for their not being there to serve as alternates!
Daly's getting a bad rap in all of this....here's the rest of the story from the link Ego provided...
Imada and O'Hern were alternates for the pro-am, and both thought they were assigned to the afternoon group. Instead, they were the first two names called when Daly didn't show, and when neither was around, they also were disqualified from the $5.8 million event.
O'Hern lives only five minutes away at Isleworth and was furious to learn he would not be eligible.
"When I should have been on the tee, I was giving my girls breakfast," O'Hern said. "I thought common sense would have prevailed. This is a tough one to take. Unfortunately, we got caught up in John's snowball effect."
The snowball is starting to look like an avalanche.
Daly lost his full PGA Tour card two years ago and relies mainly on sponsor exemptions. In seven events this year, he has missed the cut three times and withdrew from the Bob Hope Classic, where he was spotted at several after-hour parties.
His best finish was a tie for 60th in Mexico, an opposite-field event.
The Bay Hill mix-up comes one day after Harmon, one golf's most renowned swing coaches, said he was done working with Daly because the two-time major champion appeared more interested in drinking than working on his game.
"My whole goal for him was he's got to show me golf is the most important thing in his life," Harmon said. "And the most important thing in his life is getting drunk."
Harmon said Daly's behavior last week at the PODS Championship was enough to end the short-lived relationship.
Daly spent a 2 1/2-hour rain delay during the first round in a Hooters corporate tent behind the 17th green at Innisbrook. He was 3 over, and when play resumed, he had Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden caddie for him the rest of the day. After missing the cut with rounds of 77-80, Daly spent Saturday at the Hooters "Owl's Nest" next to the 17th hole, drinking beer, mingling with fans and signing autographs, including one on the back of a woman's pants.
"I just wish Butch had called me before getting slapped in the face," Daly said. "I love Butch to death. I still think he's the greatest coach out there. I just told him, 'Don't always believe what you read in the paper.' I texted him, 'All I wish you'd done is call me.' It was a shock to me."
As for his escapade at the Owl's Nest?
Daly said he thought he was doing the tournament a favor by drumming up business at the raucous tent.
"I signed about a thousand hats," Daly said. "I love Hooters. I had a few beers and some chicken wings. It was Saturday. I wasn't even playing in the tournament."
Daly has been on a downward spiral since losing a playoff to Tiger Woods in 2005 at Harding Park in a World Golf Championship event. He injured his ribs last year at the Honda Classic when he tried to stop his powerful swing upon hearing the click of a fan's camera, and Daly recently said he was contemplating a lawsuit against the tournament, which gave him a sponsor's exemption.
"My life is upside-down right now," Daly said. "No matter what I do, it's wrong. I'm thinking of writing a new song. I'll call it, 'I guess it's my fault, even when it's not my fault."'
Daly said he played Tuesday at a nearby course with Robert Gamez, who helped sort out his putting problems.
"I was looking forward to a great week," Daly said. "I've always had great success at Bay Hill. I usually don't ever miss the cut. I called Arnold, and said he feels just as bad about it. I saw him Monday and he gave me a big ol' hug and said, 'Thanks for being here."'
Success at Bay Hill is in the eye of the Wild Thing.
Daly has played 14 times at Palmer's event, and his best finish is a tie for 10th. He has missed the cut three times, and four times shot in the 80s in the final round. One of those scores came in 1998, when Daly hit six balls in the water on the par-5 sixth and made an 18.
"I hope things get better," Phil Mickelson said. "I think we all do."
....I've seen this story reported on ESPN umpteen times today and no one has reported it sorrectly. They all made it sound like Daly was at fault for missing the pro-am today, when in fact Daly was already present at another pro-am there on Monday and he asked to play in the Wed pro-am also but was given the wrong teetime information. I fault the tournament for that. A multi-million dollar tournament should be run better than this. It's not like Daly missed a flight and didn't show up in Orlando; he was there, probably living right on the course. All these players have cellphones; why wasn't he called? He was on the way to the course when his earlier teetime for the pro-am teed off. I just always assumed these big tournaments had liaison people all over the place making sure their golfers were being taken care of properly, certainly not being given the wrong teetime information! I think less about the Bayhill Invitational and certainly much less about Butch Harmon than I do about John Daly, who is getting all the blame for this today. Most amazing are the comments by the two alternates, who are trying to blame Daly for their not being there to serve as alternates!
NickPappagiorgio
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One of the saddest things in sports happened about 5 years ago. Daly was playing with the chills because he was going through withdrawal symptons. It was in the 80s or 90s and he was wearing a jacket and freezing. It was someting Ill never forget seeing.
One of the saddest things in sports happened about 5 years ago. Daly was playing with the chills because he was going through withdrawal symptons. It was in the 80s or 90s and he was wearing a jacket and freezing. It was someting Ill never forget seeing.
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They just covered this story on the Mike and Mike show....unfairly again, I might add. What is so difficult about covering this story fairly? They have access to all the pertinent information, but instead they said things like this..."John Daly missed his teetime yesterday because he thought his teetime was 9:46 when it was really 8:40". Well DUH....of course he thought his teetime was at 9:46 because that's when he was told by the tournament staff that his teetime was supposed to be. If anyone should be disqualified, it should be the tournament staff! Arnold should be ashamed and make a statement taking the blame for his staff's poor performance.
They just covered this story on the Mike and Mike show....unfairly again, I might add. What is so difficult about covering this story fairly? They have access to all the pertinent information, but instead they said things like this..."John Daly missed his teetime yesterday because he thought his teetime was 9:46 when it was really 8:40". Well DUH....of course he thought his teetime was at 9:46 because that's when he was told by the tournament staff that his teetime was supposed to be. If anyone should be disqualified, it should be the tournament staff! Arnold should be ashamed and make a statement taking the blame for his staff's poor performance.
MIKEH75
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once years ago i guarded his house for a good while and the property where he and others lived at an expensive closed community.trust me when i say the escorts where pretty,the alcohol was flowing and the violence was always close at hand.too many shady characters coming and going.drugs were prevalant too but they might've been for the strippers because i don't think john does dope because he loves his drink too much.
once years ago i guarded his house for a good while and the property where he and others lived at an expensive closed community.trust me when i say the escorts where pretty,the alcohol was flowing and the violence was always close at hand.too many shady characters coming and going.drugs were prevalant too but they might've been for the strippers because i don't think john does dope because he loves his drink too much.
OMNIVOROUS FROG
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He is a magnet for those bad types, very similar to Stu Ungar in Vegas. Would have been fine on his own, but those bad news types just corrupt and ruin people for their own profit. Despicable.
Best Wishes...OF :cheers
He is a magnet for those bad types, very similar to Stu Ungar in Vegas. Would have been fine on his own, but those bad news types just corrupt and ruin people for their own profit. Despicable.
Best Wishes...OF :cheers