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Daly news good so far, but hazards lie ahead
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So, whatever happened to John Daly? It has been three weeks
now since the long-hitting blond bomber from Arkansas was seen
launching 300-yard drives over Pete Dye's 7,300-yard Crooked Stick
Golf Club en route to the PGA Championship, his first tour victory.
Along the way, Daly, a rookie, captured the hearts of average
Americans the way no golfer has since Arnold Palmer in the late 1950s
and early '60s. Daly's big drives, his passion for victory and his
simple, down-to-earth hum...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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Daly's Downfall Nothing Personal
Chicago Sun-Times
; ST. LOUIS When John Daly's tumultuous reign as 1991 PGA champion officially ends today, it will be with a whimper rather than with one of Daly's patented bangs. Golf is the poorer for it. Daly, who barely made the cut at 6-over par after the first two days of this year's PGA at Bellerive, shot
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Golf: Action Replay - The day Daly produced his longest drive
The Independent - London
; Golfing history was made on Sunday, 11 August, 1991 when unconsidered John Daly won one of golf's majors, the USPGA at Crooked Stick, Indiana. Daly, later to be nicknamed "Wild Thing" hit the ball for miles and lived his life at high speed. Tim Glover was there to see the birth of a golfing
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Daly Makes Cut, `Shoves It' To Critics
Chicago Sun-Times
; ST. LOUIS The legend of Crooked Stick lives on this year at Bellerive, but only as an oversized footnote. Defending PGA champion John Daly has virtually no chance of retaining his PGA Championship title, but at least he earned the right to play on the weekend. And the right to "shove it in the
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Golf: The Open 2004: Gripping tale of bumpy road from Crooked Stick; BOOK REVIEW John Daly: The Biography By Gavin Newsham (Virgin Books, pounds 9.99) 4SportsBooks.co.uk price: pounds 6.99.(Sport)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Few sportsmen have exploded onto the world stage quite as spectacularly as John Daly, the golfer from California with the dodgy haircut and the 'grip it and rip it' philosophy so often adopted (though not necessarily executed) by the average Sunday morning hacker. The manner of Daly's arrival in
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Daly captures hearts, PGA title
The Boston Globe
; CARMEL, Ind. -- The many miles John Daly has traveled between the nine-hole golf course he grew up on in the village of Dardanelle in the north central region of Arkansas and the 72d green in the 73d PGA Championship yesterday at Crooked Stick GC in the northern outreaches of Indianapolis are
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Golf: Disciplined Daly takes early lead
The Independent - London
; If John Daly was a surprise winner of the USPGA Championship at Crooked Stick in 1991, being the ninth reserve and better known for destroying hotel rooms and bottles of Jack Daniels than championship golf courses, his claiming of the early clubhouse lead in the first round of this year's
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Daly's life story reads like novel // Golfer's tale is similar to Dead Solid Perfect
Chicago Sun-Times
; It was obvious from the start, when John Daly stomped up the fairway on the final hole at Crooked Stick, that this was a figure larger than life, a character from a storybook. At the time, however, it was not so obvious that the storybook was Dead Solid Perfect, Dan Jenkins' 1974 novel that took an
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Stress Puts Daly in Hot Water // Suspended Golf Star Finds Demands Of Career, Personal Life Too Difficult
Chicago Sun-Times
; ORLANDO, Fla. John Daly's swing takes the golf club to near-impossible positions. It launches the golf ball to improbable distances. It has brought him fame and fortune. And trouble and confusion and more pain than he'd ever experienced. It has taken him to places in life he never expected to go
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DRIVING HOME HER POINT // McGann Won't Be Compared To Daly
Chicago Sun-Times
; CARMEL, Ind. Maybe it's the nature of the golf course, or the mentality of Indiana golf fans. Crooked Stick Golf Club played well for John Daly at the 1991 PGA Championship. He's the longest hitter on the men's pro golf circuit. This week it's playing well for Michelle McGann, the longest hitter on
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GOLF;Rookie Daly Drives Into the Limelight
The Washington Post
; The pitching and wooing of Long John Daly began in earnest yesterday, less than a day after this virtually unknown professional golfer race-walked up the 18th fairway Sunday afternoon, knocked in a six-foot putt for par and became the unlikeliest winner of the PGA Championship in its 73-year
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