John Daly will always be my favorite train wreck

John Daly went to North Carolina to hang out with some of his buddies and have some fun.

Sounds innocent enough except for the pesky fact that we are talking about John Daly.

According to Winston-Salem police, Daly appeared ``extremely intoxicated and uncooperative'' when he was found outside a Hooters restaurant early Oct. 27. With no other means of transportation, he was taken to the Forsyth County jail for 24 hours to get sober.
Daly said it could have been avoided if his friends had realized he tends to sleep with his eyes open when he's tired, stressed and has been drinking. He said the driver of his private bus, parked near Hooters, panicked when he saw Daly and called the paramedics.

``Nothing is going right in my life right now,'' Daly said in a telephone interview Sunday. ``I'm going through a hell of a divorce. I haven't seen my son. It was an unfortunate incident, but it's a joke what people are saying. I take full responsibility for what happened, but it wasn't that big of a deal.'' "If I had seen someone like that, I probably would have done the same thing,'' he said. ```The thing I want people to know is when I called my girlfriend at 11:30 p.m., I was going back to the bus to go sleep,'' Daly said. ``I'm not going to say I wasn't drunk. I did have a few drinks. I said to them, 'I'm tired, I'm drunk and I'm going to bed.'''
Daly said his friends woke him up about 2 a.m.
``The bus driver called 911 because my eyes were open,'' Daly said. ``I said, 'What's going on?' He said, 'We thought you were dead.' Anybody who knows me ... when I'm tired, I sleep with my eyes open. They know it takes awhile to wake me up.''`They were only trying to protect me.''

His endorsements are drying up, and Daly fears his sponsorship with Hooters could be the next to go.
``The world perceives that I passed out at Hooters, that I was thrown out at Hooters,'' he said. ``I was asleep on the bus. I didn't pass out at Hooters. I've never had an incident at Hooters. I hate that their name is brought into it this way. They'll probably have to terminate me because of the negative publicity.''

Doubtful, without Daly who else do they have? Who else could they want? He is the perfect spokeman for them on so many levels. Every one of his wives looked they might have worked there at one time of another in their lives, and he certainly has the physique of someone who spends time in a Hooters. They are the perfect marriage of sponsor and athlete.

As interesting as John Daly is on the golf course, it's his life off the course that always gets our attention. Is his being drunk in public interesting? Not really, the fact that he was passed out in front of a Hooters is interesting. The fact that he's going through another divorce, his 4th or 5th, it's hard to remember how many, not interesting, the fact that he stayed married to a woman who was in jail for her role in drug and gambling ring; interesting.

What will happen to him is anyone's guess, but it's no doubt whatever happens next to him will make the news.

Quotes are from From Golf.com.

Link:http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1855840,00.html