"Daly’s file, now public record, provides an unprecedented look into his professional and personal life, and the Tour’s efforts to get him help."
Garry Smits gets ahold of John Daly's PGA Tour file on the eve of Daly's positively horrific-sounding reality show. The file became public record after Daly sued Morris Publishing in 2005, and it "became part of the court file after Daly dropped his appeal last fall of a summary judgment issued in favor of Morris on March 23, 2009, and after Daly was ordered to pay Morris’ attorney fees."
The PGA Tour ordered John Daly to undergo counseling or enter alcohol rehabilitation centers seven times, once disciplined him for hitting golf shots off the top of a beer can during a pro-am and cited him 21 times for “failure to give best efforts,” during Tour events.
Daly has also been accused of nearly hitting an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent after failing to stop his car at a security checkpoint at the 2005 U.S. Open in Pinehurst, N.C., and of launching golf balls over the heads of spectators who were sitting in the bleachers during a 1993 golf clinic, according to the PGA Tour’s confidential personnel file on Daly.
Now this is just funny...
Eventually, his personnel file at the PGA Tour swelled to 456 pages, with incidents covering 18 years, through the fall of 2008. Daly was fined nearly $100,000 during that span, suspended from the Tour five times, placed on probation six times, cited 11 times for “conduct unbecoming a professional” and 21 times for “failure to give best efforts.”
Monday, March 1, 2010 at 08:22 PM
Reader Comments (21)
A favorite line from the Times article: "Another time the narrator intones, “After receiving the Sony Open exemption” — allowing Mr. Daly to play in that tournament — “next came the painstaking process of packing for the long trip to Hawaii.” How can one man endure so much hardship?" Hard to believe GC could go lower than the Haney Project (Round Mound of Rebound Edition), but they seem to have done so. Geoff, you have to watch it for us.
Poor decisions.
and i am going on a trip tomorrow, guess i 'd better start the "painstaking process" of packing huh...
Daly is an ass who i wish would go away from the game of golf FOREVER
"Great courses, charity work form certain players, etc., etc...and they give us this shit"
It ain't a perfect world ... shows like Daly's make TGC money, bio's on boring golfers don't ... if you want the latter, put together a documentary crew and produce your own show and then try and sell it ...
Doesn't make it right but that the way the business works ...
What I find worse than the actual shows TGC choose to make, is the production of those shows. It seems to me they don't have anyone over there who actually knows how to make a good TV show. Their editing and pacing is horrific, the repetition is mind-numbing and it is probably because they will not spend the money it takes to get real people of talent in to produce those shows.
John Daly is a moron, most people can't stand him, and this show is going to be a disaster, but their are people in the business that would be able to make an entertaining show out of it - just not at TGC.
No expectations with Daly . . . Really? . . . I think we golf fans were pretty excited about John when he came upon the scene at Crooked Stick. . . Longer than anyone we had ever seen with soft hands and could execute under major championship pressure. . . Sure, at some point many of us had decided he just was too out of control to be a factor anymore - but many of us would not be much more shocked if he won at St. Andrews again this July than if Sergio Garcia or Ben Curtis did - Daly has that much natural ability.
Tiger raised our expectations - through his unprecedented consistent performance on the golf course. And, he exceeded our expectations. . . So, are you saying that because Tiger worked substantially harder and exceeded our wildest hopes he must fall further and harder than John Daly? . . .
Tiger had more ambition - a greater work ethic - higher IQ - better focus - less give up in him - but NOT more talent and natural ability than John Daly had. . . So John Daly - to me at least - is the young man with all the ability in the world who through an almost total lack of effort and discipline threw it all away. . . Tiger Woods took his golf ability - continued to work on swing changes and his body - never ever quit on the golf course and thus performed like no one ever before.
So, my view is that all this criticism of Tiger is based upon his off course behavior which was minor league compared to Daly off the golf course - and that people who never liked Woods now feel free to criticize. . .Most of those same people though feel sympathy for John Daly while not voicing criticism as much as disappointment for him.. . Give me the guy who put it all on the line - every week - who flew a little close to the Sun and got burned - while the other guy - who was just lazy and hardly cared gets no respect from me for anything other than good genes for golf. . . So I repeat my question - why does Daly get way less criticism than Woods does - what did these people have against Woods all along?