"Are athletes now going to use social media as a form of retaliation?"

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Garry Smits files an SI My Shot this week about the John Daly cell phone posting saga.

At first I was mostly amused and then a bit annoyed when the call count surpassed my usual golf score. But my main concern was the precedent. Are athletes now going to use social media as a form of retaliation? Daly posted my office cell number — in reality, no big deal. But many athletes have reporters' home numbers. Will that be the next line crossed? I would not have wanted my daughter to hear some of what her father heard. I can take it, but my child or my wife shouldn't have to.

Hopes Dim For Daly Suspension After Golf Writers Request PGA Tour To Intervene

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The Commish and Drones 1-6 were reportedly in an intense meeting discussing the length of John Daly's next suspension after his posting of writer Garry Smits' phone number on Twitter when a low level VP interrupted with the GWAA's letter requesting a suspension.

GWAA president Vartan Kupelian told PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem in a letter on Wednesday that Daly should be suspended given the vindictive nature of his actions, adding Smits was reporting on a matter that was public record. The golf writers organization also wants the PGA Tour to make public any suspension since the Tour’s policy is not to disclose player discipline.

Sources say the meeting was immediately adjourned, the whiteboards scrubbed clean of Daly's name and by the dinner hour, several VP's were reportedly mentioning a possible award for Daly. Just kidding.

"Frankly, it's the tour that should be admonishing Daly in public, since he dragged his laundry into the public square on Twitter."

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Steve Elling files an extensive look at John Daly's attempt to harrass Florida Times-Union's Garry Smits via Twitter and notes the absurdity of Daly going public with this but the tour still insisting it's a private matter, even though the entire Daly file has gone public!
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"Is the tour afraid it would have to announce too many of these annoying indiscretions, that its players are not as pristine as advertised?"

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Bob Harig wonders what might have happened to John Daly had his fines, suspensions, warnings and other assorted disciplinary red flags been made public years ago. And he asks why the tour is so determined to keep disciplinary actions private.
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"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."

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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."
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"We have 'legal and conforming' grooves, and we have 'approved for play,' and I have sent in legal grooves that have not been approved, and these grooves in my opinion are, just like Scott felt, are non-conforming grooves, but they are approved."

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Phil Mickelson addressed Scott McCarron's charges following the second round at Torrey and unfortunately, was all over the map in his comments. See if you can make sense of this:
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