John Daly Reveals the Lowest Point of His Golfing Career

John Daly is a well-known golfing entity for his off-course antiques. Since the start of his career, he has been in the headlines for everything except golf. However, he still won two major championships in his career. Daly won the 1991 PGA Championship after coming in as a replacement, and the Open Championship in 1995.

However, he has seen a lot of hard times in his career as a golfer. His off-course habits and unorthodox lifestyle have troubled him immensely. Whenever fans hear about John Daly, they spontaneously associate him with alcohol and smoking habits. He was notorious for having a very un-sportsman-type lifestyle. And this lifestyle once got him suspended from the PGA Tour.

John Daly once received a suspension from the PGA Tour

In 2008, a picture of John Daly in an orange jail suit with half his eyes closed was making the rounds. Meanwhile, this picture got everyone to believe the police had arrested Daly. Hence, the PGA Tour suspended the golfer as they thought and believed what they saw.

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However, Daly later came out in public and revealed the reality of this incident. He said his friends called the police as they feared he had passed out. But they did not know he slept with his eyes open whenever drunk. Therefore, the golfer was in jail under state law, “Assistance to Intoxicated Persons.”

But people did not know the reality. They thought the police had arrested him. “The picture didn’t help,” said Daly. “People think I got arrested when I didn’t get arrested. It is what it is. I’ve got to deal with it and go on. Whatever reason the tour has, maybe positive will come out of this.”  

However, the PGA Tour had already decided on the suspension and stuck with it. “Is it fair that I got suspended?” questioned Long John. “It’s not fair in reality, but it’s probably fair in perception,” believes Daly.

Meanwhile, he said this was the lowest point of his career, “This is the lowest I’ve ever been,” concluded Daly. But as 2008 ended, he revealed that his goal for the next year was to do everything to make good things happen on the course.  

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