John Daly

[ScriptOhio]

Gambling addiction can be a real problem, I didn't even know Vegas had $5000 slots.


Updated: May 2, 2006, 12:15 AM ET
In book, Daly says gambling problem will 'ruin me'

John Daly says he has lost between $50 million and $60 million during 12 years of heavy gambling and that it has become a problem that could "flat-out ruin me" if he doesn't bring it under control.
Daly discussed his addiction to gambling in the final chapter of his autobiography, "John Daly: My Life In and Out of the Rough," to be released next Monday.
He told one story of earning $750,000 when he lost in a playoff to Tiger Woods last fall in San Francisco at a World Golf Championship. Instead of going home, he drove to Las Vegas and says he lost $1.65 million in five hours playing mostly $5,000 slot machines.
"If I don't get control of my gambling, it's going to flat-out ruin me," he says in the book, co-written with Glen Waggoner and published by HarperCollins.
The book got the attention of PGA Tour headquarters, and commissioner Tim Finchem met with Daly on Monday at the Wachovia Championship in Charlotte, N.C.
Finchem said the book does not violate PGA Tour regulations, although "it is clear that he continues to be concerned about and grapple with significant personal challenges."
"I have expressed to John the tour's concern for his well-being, as well as his ongoing need to uphold the image and standards of the PGA Tour," Finchem said. "While we will continue to enforce the regulations and policies of the PGA Tour, I have advised John of the tour's willingness to support him in his efforts to deal with his personal issues."
The two-time major champion wrote that he has spent the last 10 years paying off gambling debts with his sponsorship income, hustling appearance money and "running myself ragged doing corporate outings instead of spending time with my family and working on my game."
He recalled former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson telling him at a Tucson, Ariz., rehab center in 1993 that Daly would find something he loves as much as drinking and that he would have to be careful.
"The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck," Daly wrote. "What I found was gambling."
He said he owed $4 million to casinos in two years of gambling until he won the 1995 British Open at St. Andrews, his second major. That victory and the ability to get handsome appearance fees enabled him to pay off the debt.
But the gambling continued.
Daly three-putted from 15 feet on the second playoff hole against Woods at Harding Park. He headed to Las Vegas and lost $600,000 within 30 minutes. He said he took out another $600,000 line of credit and lost that in two hours.
"And here's how my sick mind analyzed the situation," Daly wrote. "My sponsorship payments would be coming through in January, so I'd be able to pay everything off and get back to even by the beginning of the new year. Everything's fine. Everything's OK. No problema. Hell, yes, there's a problema."
Daly says he has taken more control of his life in the last six years.
"I'm off those ... medications. I don't drink JD [Jack Daniel's] anymore. I don't beat up on hotel rooms and cars as much. Only gambling remains a problem," he wrote.
He said he plans to start at the $25 slots in the casinos and set a "walkout loss number," which would tell him it's time to leave.
"If I make a little bit, then maybe I move up to the $100 slots or the $500 slots, or maybe I take it to the blackjack table," he wrote. "It's their money. Why not give it a shot, try to double it? And if I make a lot, I can ...
"Well, that's my plan," he wrote.
Daly has been one of the most popular figures on the PGA Tour since he won the 1991 PGA Championship as the ninth alternate. He has five PGA Tour victories and career earnings of $8.7 million.
http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=2429380

[Thump]

Read that this morning.

I wish I could say I was shocked.

[scooter1369]

I actually picture a "Jeckyl and Hyde" transformation when Daly falls off the wagon. Neat clean cut ready for the Masters and then a sip of Tequila and BAM!!! 5 O'clock shadow, hair's a mess, shirt untucked and unbuttoned down to his navel and full of rage.

[strohs]

Originally Posted by scooter1369

I actually picture a "Jeckyl and Hyde" transformation when Daly falls off the wagon. Neat clean cut ready for the Masters and then a sip of Tequila and BAM!!! 5 O'clock shadow, hair's a mess, shirt untucked and unbuttoned down to his navel and full of rage.

He does still drink, hes always pounding beers on his show (at least the 2 times I saw it he was)

[OH10]

This is what happens when otherwise cool people, or the "everyman", gets money.

I've pretty much determined that I do not want to be rich.

[buckeye247]

I dont see how you could have that much money and just throw it away. I like to play cards but i would never bet 5,000 on one hand maybe if i was a really rich, My whole life i have gambled and i still do but ive never could get addicted to it.

[Folanator]

"I'm off those ... medications. I don't drink JD [Jack Daniel's] anymore. I don't beat up on hotel rooms and cars as much. Only gambling remains a problem," he wrote.

For gods sake John start drinking. It is freeken cheaper.

For those of us that battle those deamons that is brutal to read.

[ysubuck]

Is there anything that guy isn't addicted to???

EDIT Working out, I suppose. Answered my own question

[Steve19]

Originally Posted by StadiumDorm

This is what happens when otherwise cool people, or the "everyman", gets money.

I've pretty much determined that I do not want to be rich.

I think that is an admirable stance and I quite agree that you are definitely right.

I know you won't get a lot of support for your point of view, so please let me assist you. Please PM me and I will give you an account number into which you can deposit excess funds so that you are not tempted to be rich. I have some Nigerian friends who you also can trust. They had a client, the late John StadiumDorm, who is deceased and had no will. Take it from me, they can help you too!

Just remember:

Rich = BAD StadiumDorm. GREAT UNHAPPINESS.

Sending money to Steve19 = GOOD StadiumDorm. GREAT HAPPINESS (for Steve19, but let's not quibble about the details right now!)

[sandgk]

This is the part that absolutely kills me ..

He said he plans to start at the $25 slots in the casinos and set a "walkout loss number," which would tell him it's time to leave.
"If I make a little bit, then maybe I move up to the $100 slots or the $500 slots, or maybe I take it to the blackjack table," he wrote. "It's their money. Why not give it a shot, try to double it? And if I make a lot, I can ...
"Well, that's my plan," he wrote.

This is evidence of someone with no ability to understand the depths of his problem.

You start down that road inevitably you will be sucked in and lose more.

[Folanator]

Originally Posted by sandgk

This is the part that absolutely kills me ..



This is evidence of someone with no ability to understand the depths of his problem.

You start down that road inevitably you will be sucked in and lose more.

So true, that part looked like a quote from Charlie Hustle himself.

Here's a better idea John, shut the [censored] up and go to a [censored]ing meeting you moron.

[jimotis4heisman]

or the guy is trying to sell a book...

god bless america, one of the few places a guy can write about and fabricate his flaws to make millions...

[strohs]

Originally Posted by jimotis4heisman

or the guy is trying to sell a book...

In JD's case I highly doubt it

[OH10]

Originally Posted by Steve19

I think that is an admirable stance and I quite agree that you are definitely right.

I know you won't get a lot of support for your point of view, so please let me assist you. Please PM me and I will give you an account number into which you can deposit excess funds so that you are not tempted to be rich. I have some Nigerian friends who you also can trust. They had a client, the late John StadiumDorm, who is deceased and had no will. Take it from me, they can help you too!

Just remember:

Rich = BAD StadiumDorm. GREAT UNHAPPINESS.

Sending money to Steve19 = GOOD StadiumDorm. GREAT HAPPINESS (for Steve19, but let's not quibble about the details right now!)

Don't worry. Me becoming rich is not something to be concerned about.

[jimotis4heisman]

TSN : GOLF - Canada's Sports Leader

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - John Daly told authorities his wife tried to stab him with a steak knife, and the golfer had red marks on his cheeks when he showed up to play Friday on the course where he lives.
Daly called police about 6 a.m. on Friday, Shelby County Sheriff's department spokesman Steve Shular said. When deputies arrived, wife Sherrie and the couple's children were not there. Deputies could not find the knife he claimed she used.




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