Noted fashionista and occasional golfer John Daly oscillates wildly between being a cautionary tale and a demigod to those who admire a bloke who does it his way.
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Especially if that way is littered with boozin’ and Hooters chicken wings.
His latest revelation about life as the original Wild Thing won’t change many opinions of him.
Daly’s vices are well known. Long John managed to earn enough that he’s in the black after gambling away an estimated $US50 million, but his latest revelation proves how reckless he could be.
After a dust-up with wife number four, Sherrie, he decided to teach her a lesson.
“I won like $55,000 in the casino and I said (to Sherrie), ‘if you’re going to yell and scream at me about this,’ and I threw it over the bridge going over to Memphis from Arkansas,” he told the Dan Le Batard Show on Tuesday.
“I threw all the money out the (car) window and said, ‘You know what, if you want that money, you can go find it. But let me tell you something, you don’t have a job. You’re not working. I’m supporting you; I’m paying all the bills.’
“My buddy (then) took her to a McDonald’s drive-thru and got her two cheeseburgers and some french fries and a soda, and (it was like), ‘OK, this is how you can live from now on if that’s the way you want it.’”
That's about $75k in dollarydoos. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average Aussie earned $78,832 in 2016, but that number is drastically affected by the Monopoly suit-wearing fat cats of banking and those whose living is subsidised by the government.
A cursory check of Sherrie Daly ‘s Teed Off: My Life as a Player’s Wife on the PGA Tour confirms the yarn – though she claims she went back and got the cash.
John Daly: two-time major winner, four-time survivor of the long walk down the aisle (soon to be fifth after his engagement to Anna Cladakis), and forever a loose unit.
