By now, everyone is aware of John Daly and his drinking habits. You’d be living under a rock to not know that. But there was a time when Daly was consistently trying to get rid of it. In fact, before his infamous fallout at the 1997 Players Championship, he had been in rehabilitation twice.

In an interview with GOLF’s Subpar, former ESPN host Trey Wingo shared the story from the 1998 Players Championship. Daly was again trying to fix his drinking habit. Before he teed off, Daly received the coin, aka the sobriety coin, that signifies how long a person has been sober. “So, I’m writing this lead and thinking, ‘This is going to be the greatest thing in the world,'” Wingo says.

“So I wrote this sentence right before he teed off: John Daly received his coin signifying one, six months, whate

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