I’ve heard worse. Not much else to say about this one really.
John Daly
Long drive phenom Jamie Sadlowski will tee it up this afternoon at the Albertson’s Boise Open in his first ever Nationwide Tour start.
Sadlowski played in a 9-hole charity skins match on Monday with John Daly. While he lost the match to Daly 7 to 2 (shooting even par), he did manage to drive a 359-yard par-4 with a 14* hybrid, which reportedly left Daly “flabbergasted”.
Sadlowski’s stated goal is to try to beat Jason Zuback’s record of 5 Re/Max long drive titles before transitioning into competitive golf. He’ll have a shot at winning his 3rd title on Nov 4th in Nevada.
[Image golf.com]
John Daly, that’s who. A 3rd round 67 has put him 3 off the lead going into Sunday.
Just when many golf fans were thinking that Daly was done, the 2-time major champion with eye searing clothing comes out and shows that he can still play with the best. It’s been a long time since we saw John Daly on a weekend leaderboard, and the real trick is whether or not he can perform like this consistently. But it’s certainly not a bad start.
Check out Daly’s post-round interview after the break.
Playboy recently published an piece on John Daly. (I probably wouldn’t click on the link at work). It paints an interesting, if not entirely flattering portrait. In the article, Daly talks about his relationship with girlfriend, Ana Cladakis (he claims to either be a nympho or close to it), his monthly expenses (a mere $43k down from $120k), and probably most notably, his problems with gambling and other addictions.
Daly has been through some significant highs and lows in his life, most notably due to his gambling. Fortunately for him, Cladakis seems to have put the kibosh on it, because “[she] hates it”. Of course it probably helps that he doesn’t have millions of dollars to blow through right now either.
Who knew that Rodney Dangerfield was actually predicting the future in Caddyshack?
Today at the Viking Classic, literally no other golfer had a gallery larger than a dozen people or so. There were more volunteers than spectators on some holes. Contrast that to John Daly, who was followed by throngs of people everywhere he went. I was taking some pictures on the range before lunch when he walked up near where I was standing. Within 30 seconds 50+ people that had gathered to watch him hit balls.
I took the picture above on the 13th fairway at the Viking. I’m not exaggerating when I state that virtually no other golfer had more than 10-12 people in their gallery. In order to spot Daly on the course, you just needed to look for the crowd.
As the tour struggles to keep viewership numbers up, you can expect to continue to see Daly walking tour fairways, regardless of whether or not he has a tour card.
I never thought I would write so many posts (two!) about golf clothing in one day, but apparently the Tampa Bay Devil Rays got together with Loudmouth Golf yesterday to try on some of Loudmouth’s unique golf apparel. Maybe they could be the clothing provider for the US Team at the next Ryder Cup?
John Daly on the putting green at the Congressional Country Club during the Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am prior to the 2007 AT&T National tournament - Carl Lindberg
72strokes doesn’t have an official logo (working on it as we speak) but we do have our first twitter follower… John Daly! So what if he follows about 70k people on twitter. And I guess technically he’s the 2nd follower because the first was some guy I blocked that was posting porn links. But regardless, hopefully this is the first of many more to come.
I’ve always liked John Daly. My father played in a pro-am with him several years ago (I think at the Southern Farm Bureau Classic) and had a really great time. I believe he even got to go check out the RV afterwards, which I’m told was very impressive. Hopefully John will be able to build on the consistent play he’s had this year and come back even stronger for the 2011 season.
