John Daly took down Tiger Woods(Image: Getty Images)
John Daly and Tiger Woods enjoyed plenty of battles while out on the PGA Tour, and the former infamously got the better of the golfing legend at Sherwood Country Club.
John Daly once took down arguably golf’s greatest player in Tiger Woods back in 1994, all while hungover and enjoying a whiskey on his way around the course.
A two-time major champion in his own right, Daly proved to be one of the most popular players on the PGA Tour, and enjoyed many a battle with the game’s greatest. He now plays his golf on the Champions Tour, a circuit Woods could well turn to at the end of the year, as he continues to battle with injury.
Back in his prime, however, he was one of the most in-form stars on the Tour, and one round in particular saw him get the better of an up-and-coming Woods.
Discussing his booze-fueled 1994 match-up with Woods, which saw him come away victorious, Daly previously told the Tucker Carlson Encounter podcast: We had the roundtable at Sherwood and I had my bottle of Jack Daniels then. I just meet these guys, right?
“Tiger came in and I said: ‘T, come have a drink with us, man’. And he said: ‘No, I’m going to go hit some balls’. A few hours later, I said again: ‘Come have a drink with us’. Tiger said: ‘No, I’m going to go work out’. This is going on for about five or six hours and we’re still there just pounding, getting drunk, having a good time.
“I got a sponsorship out of it which I was happy about. TW comes out in a suit and I go: ‘Where are you going?’. He says: ‘I got a guitar on stage for you. You have to go to the dinner’. I didn’t know anything about a dinner.
“The funny thing about Tiger is, when I got on the tee, I had my caddie bring me a crown or a Jack and Coke. If you’ve never played Sherwood, the first hole, he’s walking and walking through all the cactuses on this hill trying not to spill my drink.
