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Old rivals Tiger Woods and John Daly had been reunited in a healthful 2nd at the PNC Championship.
Nevertheless Woods couldn’t resist taking a cheeky pot shot at his faded adversary.
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The two iconic golfers are each taking share in the PGA Tour’s family match this weekend, teeing it up alongside their sons – Charlie Woods and John Daly II.
After Friday’s be aware rounds, photos reveals Woods spotting Daly outside the clubhouse.
“I’ll meet you in the gym,” Woods shouts to essential laughter from those around.
The 15-time major winner then embraces Daly, who answered: “At least gym is a three-letter word.
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“Yours is G-Y-M. Mine is B-A-R.”
While the PNC Championship is a glorified hit-and-giggle, Woods and Daly used to compete against each other at the highest level.
That was despite dramatically different approaches to the sport.
Woods transformed the way golfers lived with a deeply athletic way of doing things – and his workout regimes became the stuff of legend.
Daly, on the other hand, could often be found in a local Hooters, or a casino, knocking back drinks late into the night during events, then puffing on cigarettes all day.
That did not stop the ‘Wild Thing’ beating arguably the greatest golfer of all time on occasion.
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In 1994, Daly lately recalled: “We had the roundtable at Sherwood and I had my bottle of Jack Daniels then.
“I honest meet these guys, factual? Tiger got here in and I talked about ‘T, attain safe a drink with us man’. And he talked about ‘No, I’m going to plug 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 5 or 6 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 the rest about a dinner. I got no shoes on, I got my shirt tucked out, I got shit spilled all the method in which via me. Good drunk. The bar room wasn’t very a ways, so I stumbled over there.
“There’s a chair and a guitar. I did ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ and got a standing ovation and said I’ll see you tomorrow.
John Daly reveals how he once beat Tiger Woods whilst DRUNK
“So [the next morning] we tee off, my caddie was drunk with us… but 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.
“I grab my 3-iron and go on the tee. To make a long story short, I shoot like 65 he shoots like 71, he was shaking his head all day.”
