John Daly

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Posted Oct 29th 2008 4:45PM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)

Filed under: Golf, PGA

 

For most golf fans, the 2008 PGA Tour season ended with last month's Tour Championship. (Or, more realistically, the Ryder Cup since the FedEx Cup is basically the unofficial start to the silly season.) Which means that there's not much to talk about until January's Mercedes Championship, or until Tiger Woods decides to tee it up again.

 

That was the case until about an hour ago, anyway. Thanks to alert FanHouse reader Heather we've learned that John Daly, the Joe Six-Pack of professional sports, has been cuffed, stuffed, poured into an orange jumpsuit and detained.

 

According to News-Record.com, Daly was held in custody Sunday after police said he was drunk off his #### in a Winston-Salem, NC restaurant. And as if it needs clarification, yeah, it was a Hooters. (Inveterate FanHouse blogger, Winston-Salem-area local, and Hootes regular Will Brinson somehow wasn't on the scene.)

Police officers were called at 2:17 a.m. to the Hooters at 120 Hanes Square Circle on a medical call. When officers arrived, Daly, who had earlier lost consciousness, was being treated by EMS.

 

Daly "appeared extremely intoxicated and uncooperative," police stated in a news release. Daly repeatedly refused to be escorted to the hospital and was eventually asked to leave the restaurant by workers there.

If this weren't so depressing it would be hilarious. But Daly is 42 years old, not 21, and he has a long history of substance abuse, often played out in public.

 

Daly spent the night in the can to sober up and was later released. No idea where he goes from here; he's still without his PGA Tour card and he's mentioned playing on the European Tour in 2009. I could climb up on my soapbox and give my "you're going to drink yourself to death" speech, but I'm pretty sure Big John's heard that one a time or 50.

 

Of course, if the professional golf thing does eventually fall through (which optimistically assumes it already hasn't), there's always the circus. It's good to have a fallback plan, I suppose.

 

 

Arresting ImagesForsyth County Sheriff's Office, AP47 photos John Daly: The golfer was taken into custody Oct. 26, 2008, by Winston-Salem police after he was found drunk outside a Hooters restaurant. Officers said Daly "appeared extremely intoxicated and uncooperative."

 

 

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What's really sad, this happened at a sponsors restaurant. I think he's become a bigger joke than Mike Tyson.

[sonoman24]

This is just another of his many bounces off of "rock bottom."

[Guest imyahuckleberry]

I read his book a couple years ago and thought he'd turned it around.

 

Sounds like he's back at rock bottom and starting to dig.

[HitEmHarder]

According to Colin Cowherd...ESPN guy...he did turn it around...only it was his car that he turned around and went to Hooters!

[FreshClub22]

#### that is pretty sad, doesnt he almost look like a big blonde grizzly bear lately? man he has gottin huge...he must think he cant be touched