What Lincoln is Thinkin’ - John being John

What Lincoln is Thinkin' - John being John

With John Daly again in the news this week for conduct unbecoming of a professional golfer, I count down the Top 10 "John being John" moments.

10. In March 2008, Daly's swing coach Butch Harmon quit, saying that "the most important thing in [Daly's] life is getting drunk."

9. In May 1993, he was upset by his opening round at the Kemper Open, threw his scoring card in the scoring tent, walked off, and was disqualified.

8. In July 1994, Daly claimed that many PGA golfers were cocaine users, and said that if drug testing was done on tour, he would be "one of the cleanest guys out there" which brought an uproar among the golfing community. Daly voluntarily missed the remainder of the 1994 season citing physical and mental exhaustion.

7. During the 1998 Greater Vancouver Open, Daly was visibly shaking as he tried to play, causing the television announcers to audibly wince at the sight. These incidents resulted in a stretch between 1996 and 2001 without a professional victory.

6. Shortly after earning his PGA Tour card in 1991, Daly trashes a hotel room while drunk. Daly once claimed that he drank a fifth of Jack Daniel's every day during the year he was 23 years of age.

5. In late 1993, Daly was given an indefinite suspension for 1994 after quitting in the middle of the Kapalua International and told to seek treatment for his alcoholism. He was at first suspended for the first 12 tournaments of the 1994 season, but he came a few weeks earlier than expected and played in the Honda Classic, finishing fourth.

4. In December 1992, Daly was charged with third-degree assault for throwing his second wife Bettye into a wall; although the actual circumstances of the incident, by all current accounts, indicate the charges were overstated and Bettye did not want them pressed. Daly has said in his autobiography that he did not, nor has he ever, hit or hurt a woman. He apologized for the incident, which has now been characterized more as "shoving" than "throwing", and entered an alcohol rehabilitation center and took time off from golf tournaments in early 1993.

3. After winning $750,000 at the WGC-American Express tournament, Daly gambled away $1.5 million in October 2005, most of it lost on $5,000 Las Vegas slot machines. Daly has been able to pay his gambling debts mostly through making more paid public appearances and through sponsorships opportunities. In 2006, Daly revealed in the last chapter of his autobiography that he has had great difficulty with a gambling problem. He claims to have lost between $50 and $60 million dollars over the past 15 years.

2. Last Sunday, Daly was taken into custody by Winston-Salem police after he was found drunk outside an area Hooters restaurant. He was travelling with a band, which left him without transportation.

1. On June 8, 2007, Daly and his wife Sherrie got into a fight at a restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, site of that week's tour stop, the Stanford St. Jude Championship. Daly claims that later that night his wife attacked him with a steak knife. He showed up for his 2nd round on Friday afternoon with cuts and scrapes across his face. Authorities were contacted by him and came to his house, but his wife had already fled the scene and taken their children with her.

What do you think is the worst "John being John" moment?

Posted by on 11/02 at 04:30 PM