By: Nick Piastowski
December 21, 2024
John Daly and Tiger Woods successful May astatine the PGA Championship.
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Tiger Woods, upon seeing John Daly, seemingly didn’t forget. This time, though, the invitations were reversed.
The first time? For that, we must mention backmost to an article published by this site successful 2016. Its header was wonderfully: “That clip John Daly asked Tiger Woods to get a beer.”
Below is the matter of the story:
When it comes to training, Tiger Woods and John Daly mightiness person what you telephone different approaches.
In an question and reply pinch Golf Channel, Daly recalled a clip successful 2004 astatine the Target World Challenge erstwhile he was enjoying immoderate big beverages aft the Wednesday pro-am. Daly was pinch immoderate friends and was successful the clubhouse drinking and telling stories erstwhile Woods walked into the room.
“Tiger’s location successful his workout clothes, and I said, Tiger, travel person a brew pinch us, man,” Daly said.
Woods told Daly he couldn’t because he was headed to the gym, but Daly didn’t relent.
“I go, man, you don’t request to activity out,” Daly said. “You request to portion a small spot pinch us.”
Woods’ consequence whitethorn not beryllium what you’d expect.
“[Woods] said, ‘If I had your talent, I’d beryllium doing the aforesaid point you’re doing,’” Daly said. “I’m looking astatine him thinking, ‘You’re crazy, man.’”
With that setup, we spell to Friday and the PNC Championship, the (mostly) friends pro-relative scramble arena that wraps up the play year. Woods, the 15-time awesome winner, and teenage boy Charlie are playing; Daly, the two-time awesome winner, and college-golfer boy John Daly II are playing; and they spotted each different astatine the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club successful Orlando, Fla., the infinitesimal captured by the PNC Championship societal media team.
Shouted Woods, earlier smiling and laughing: “I’ll meet you successful the gym.”
In the video, he past walked up to Daly, they hugged — and they had this exchange:
Said Daly, laughing: “At slightest our gyms are three-letter words. Yours is g-y-m. Mine is b-a-r.”
Responded Woods, besides laughing: “Right.”
We’ll extremity things present pinch different short Daly point from the PNC. Saturday morning, up of his first-round tee time, Daly deed the scope — and he deed 1 shot earlier declaring himself bully to go.
That video, captured by the PGA Tour societal media team, is below.
Nick Piastowski
Golf.com Editor
Nick Piastowski is simply a Senior Editor astatine Golf.com and Golf Magazine. In his role, he is responsible for editing, penning and processing stories crossed the play space. And erstwhile he’s not penning astir ways to deed the play shot farther and straighter, the Milwaukee autochthonal is astir apt playing the game, hitting the shot left, correct and short, and drinking a acold brew to lavation distant his score. You tin scope retired to him astir immoderate of these topics — his stories, his crippled aliases his beers — astatine [email protected].