Daly on the book circuit
John Daly lunches at Hooters with a NY Times columnist and you couldn't ask for a better book plug. Sorry, it's one of those Times articles available only to subscribers, but here's a taste:
Daly has never lost his Arkansas-honed accent, though he has been a lost soul all over the map. He has never surrendered his Southern identity, though he has succumbed to Tennessee whiskey. He has never played the victim to an abusive father, though he has been haunted by suicidal thoughts.
"I know myself better than most people could know themselves, maybe, because I've been through rehab," he said over lunch.
The drinking tales and the Betty Ford visits, the slot-machine obsessions and the squandered millions, his past wives and his incarcerated wife, and his sex droughts, romps and corresponding golf slumps and streaks are detailed in an unvarnished voice for his book, "My Life In and Out of the Rough," published this month by HarperCollins.
But this is not a melodramatic James Frey-esque, self-pity memoir with a saccharine message of healing through darkness complete with a tidy epiphany. This is not a superstar's self-deification vehicle designed to buff his everyman goodness, either.
Daly is an unpolished man of loose ends, of addictions unconquered, of flaws unhemmed, of a life's journey mired in stop-and-go traffic. This is John Daly. And as Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris sing it, "This is us."
Daly tells the writer, Selena Roberts, he just wants to be loved and hopes his current wife will provide some when she's released from prison on a money laundering conviction.
As he'll tell you, Daly is at his best when surrounded by good lovin'. "I just want to go home, get a great big hug and a French kiss and feel like I'm loved," Daly said.
Comments
After his tournament loss to Tiger he went to Las Vegas and lost $1.6 million. That's just one of his problems.
Posted by: Cato | May 22, 2006 01:56 PM
I've always been a Daly fan. Anyone who can play golf like he does half sloshed earns my respect. The book sounds worth checking out. It will be a nice break from the Canterbury Tales (ah, summer school...). Anyone know when it's supposed to come out?
Posted by: Lulu | May 22, 2006 02:12 PM
Sounds good
Posted by: Gripper | May 22, 2006 02:56 PM
The guy is a brutish, fat slob. Why would anyone waste time on his ghost written book?
Posted by: JQ Public | May 22, 2006 11:12 PM
JQ is just made because Daily refuses to get a lobotomy and be a good little Bush clone for the good of big oil and Wal-Mart.
I grew up with a lot of human type humans like Daily. Good ole people were plentiful before the sense got bred and legislated out of the species.
There was a time when the elders of the church ended the Sunday service with a good smoke on the front steps while they talked about Jesus and fried chicken.
There was a time only 20 years ago when it couldn't have been called a funeral if all the men didn't stand down by the saddle house and pass a bottle around while telling stories about the departed.
Strange uncles, cousins that were bad to drink, grannies who dipped snuff. All of them human with no thoughts of conforming...what was there to conform to?
I like John Daily, he's real human. That's what makes the world like Bill Clinton. That's why my wife lets me stick around. Conformists are boring and when they run in a pack like the Neo-cons, they're down right dangerous. You take Ralph Reed, I'll stick with John Daily.
Posted by: Deathbyinches | May 22, 2006 11:59 PM