Gambling losses only part of unbecoming life as a pro golfer
Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2006-05-03
Author: DOUG FERGUSON * THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Intro: Typical of how he plays, John Daly holds nothing back in his new book.
There are stories of how he lost 60 pounds in college by drinking a fifth of whiskey and smoking three packs of cigarettes a day. . . .
"John Daly: My Life In and Out of the Rough" will be in bookstores Monday, and no one will mistake it for Ben Hogan's book on the fundamentals of modern golf.
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- Forced to lose 60 pounds at Arkansas if he wanted to play on his college team, he once went three days without hardly any food, drinking four bottles of whiskey until he passed out in his room and had to be taken to the emergency room.
"But you know what? My cigarettes-popcorn-whiskey diet worked," Daly wrote. "The pounds just peeled right off. By Christmas, I'd lost 65 pounds. I probably ought to have written a diet book or something."
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