Ranked No 1,848 in the world, Daly was eligible to play this week due to the PGA Championship victory that catapulted him into stardom in 1991. Within the rigid traditions of golf, where Tony Finau’s decision to wear a hoodie launched a type of nuclear fashion crisis, Daly has long been a figure of cult status. The aura around Daly has long been a work of a kind of golfing anti-culture. Golf’s walking antithesis, carved into a supersized Carmichael frame. After that, came the intermittent spells in rehab for alcohol and gambling addictions sandwiching an Open Championship win.

Source: The Star May 19, 2019 11:37 UTC