John Daly May Join The European Tour
Various news sources are reporting that John Daly is threatening to join the European Tour.
“I’m probably going to play seven or eight more tournaments in the States and maybe six or seven over here,” said Daly, who hopes to return for the Wales Open in three weeks. “I’ll make a decision at the end of the year. I enjoy playing in Europe and I wouldn’t rule out joining the European Tour”
That’s just what we need: someone to reinforce the European stereotype of the “ugly American.” He’s bound to be a hit over there, in the same fashion as David Hasselhof and Jerry Lewis.
On a slightly different note it appears that Daly is out of sponsors. Former swing coach Butch Harmon recently said:
“John Daly called me on Thursday and said he had lost all of his endorsement contracts because of me and my statements and asked if I could print a retraction. I said,‘John, you lost your contracts because of you and not anyone else….you need to quit blaming everyone else….I wish you well and I hope you play well.”
Daly himself seems to confirm that:
“After what Butch said…my marketability went right down. I told him ‘you cost me quite a bit of money through the stuff that you said, I wish you would have called me then you could have got the facts straight.’”
He also appears to be in trouble with the Tour over the half-naked video he shot
“There are certain things about presentation that we must insist on,” Finchem said. “There are certain things about presentation that are not going to be tolerated. I think that the world changes and you make adjustments, but I think perhaps we need to be more direct in our comments to players about specific do’s and don’ts, and increase focus in that area to make sure that we have a level of professionalism going forward that we’re comfortable with.”.
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Would Finchem still feel that way if if it had been a half naked, well sculpted Adam Scott doing a video?
Posted by Miranda on 05/13
Finchem is a joke. Tiger ignores him, Phil ignores him, why should Daly or any other player pay any attention to what he says?
Daly was pretty pathetic with his shirt and shoes off, but that is Big John. Also, if he was drunk in that video, he was as lucid as most of the guys I play with when they are sober.
Daly does need to take some responsibility for his train wreck of a life, but he is hardly alone in blaming everyone else. We have two candidates for president now which think that nobody is responsible for their own situation, and why should that not apply for the big fat alcoholic white guys too?
I think it would be hilarious if JD can somehow strink together 30 good holes on a Friday and Saturday and end up winning one of the American tournaments this year.
I also wonder, what was Taylormade thinking when they signed him a couple years back? They built a lot of the Maxfli brand around him, heck, he is the only player I know of with his silhouette on a box of major brand balls (Maxfli Powermax), and they built the whole Fire campaign around John, just to dump him a year later?
Also, did he get dumped from Hooters too? Surely not.
Posted by martin on 05/13
Actually, I think the MaxFli story has several components. If you remember, TaylorMade sold MaxFli to Dick’s Sporting Goods when it decided to promote the TaylorMade balls exclusively. So if he lost hsi contract, it was in theh transition, or perhaps Dick’s decided to drop him.
Posted by The Golf Blogger on 05/13
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