John Daly opens up on PGA Tour drinking buddies – | Golf News

Two-time major champion John Daly has revealed his favourite drinking buddy on the PGA Tour is Fuzzy Zoeller, opening up on his time on and off the course as his profession dwindles down.

Daly always had an outwards character on tour, and used to hang around at Hooters close to Augusta National during the Masters, and that custom has introduced him drinking buddies. “Me and Fuzzy had a few,” Daly told HardRock Bet.

“When Tim Herron came out, we always had a few. Michael Allen was a good buddy of mine. We had a few drinkers that we’d go out with. When we played back in the ’90s, it was play golf, have a good time, hopefully play good, win, and then have a few cocktails after you get done.

“Now these guys get three hours before tee time. They work out. They practice for an hour and a half before they go to the first tee. They play the round of golf, then they go work out again for two or three hours. It just wasn’t in my blood. I don’t work out—I put out.”

“And a lot of the quarterbacks, hockey players, and baseball pitchers are really good at playing golf. I play with a ton of them, and it’s just been an honor to be around those guys.”

The sport of golf has been on the rise since covid. Content creators have began their own tours and NBA stars, such as Lebron James, have taken a severe liking for the game as he has taken to social media a number of instances to categorical his help for World No. 1 Nelly Korda.

“Some of them—like a guy like Dan Hampton, who’s a good friend of mine, played for the Bears—I mean, he had more surgeries probably than I did in the last year of his career,” added Daly.

“But a lot of them love to play golf because they can actually go out and not have to worry about hitting somebody—they get to hit the golf ball.

“But I’ve been around a lot of great, great legends of a lot of sports and been honored to play golf with them and get to know them. And not really one story sticks out much, but we just have a lot of fun.

“We talk about how their families are doing and more into the business side of things, and that’s kind of what I am in my career now—more of the business side.”