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John Daly’s a big white whale


In his new book, John Daly: My Life In and Out of the Rough, Daly claims he lost between $50M and $60M during 12 years of heavy gambling. That’s about $5M a year. And we thought Darren McCarty had a gambling problem.

It’s amazing that Daly with his alcoholism and his love of food is still alive. Now we wonder why he isn’t broke. He says that after taking home $750,000 for second place in a tournament, he drove to Vegas and lost $1.65M, mostly on $5,000 slot machines. We’ve never even seen a $5,000 slot machine.

Daly says that gambling replaced his alcohol addiction but he was able to pay off gambling debts with income from PGA winnings and appearance fees. Daily claims he has taken more control of his life in the past six years. He’s only going to play the $25 slot machines and if he does well, he’ll move up to $50 or $100 machines. Famous last words.

Links:
[CBS Sportsline]: Daly: Gambling is ‘going to flat-out ruin me’

By Vin

Vin is a Philly boy who shouldn't be invited into your house because he'll judge you on your book and music collection. He owns Dawkins, Utley, Iverson, and Lindros jerseys, which is all you really need to know about him. He can be reached at [email protected].

3 replies on “John Daly’s a big white whale”

$5,000 slot machines? — What kind of man plays slot machines anyway? Show this guy the blackjack tables. If you’re going out, go out like a man and not like an 80 year old woman.

hahahah — I agree. Why not just play War or Old Maid? But man $5,000 each spin? That’s just insane.

I love how he thinks you can play smaller amounts and keep it under control. It’s like an alcoholic saying he’ll only have the 5 oz sampler beers instead of the full pint.

DQ in tournament..in his book — On page 117 of his book, my life in and out of the rough, John says he was “DQ’d” for posting a score higher than he had.  There is no such rule.  If score is posted as “higher”, the golfer is not dq’d, butmust play with that score.

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