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John Daly and Tiger Woods may have had very different approaches to the game of golf, but that didn’t stop the pair from enjoying a boozy round together.
John Daly, the two-time major champion, once defeated Tiger Woods, arguably golf’s greatest player, in 1994 while sipping whiskey on his way around the course. Daly, who was one of the most popular players on the PGA Tour, now plays on the Champions Tour, a circuit that Woods might join at the end of the year as he continues to grapple with injury.
In his heyday, Daly was one of the most successful stars on the Tour, and one round in particular saw him outperform a rising star, Woods. Recalling his alcohol-fuelled 1994 match-up with Woods, which resulted in a victory for him, 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.
