john daly - thoughts???

John daly walks out of a tournament..............

TAKEN FROM BBC SPORT WEBSITE

American golfer John Daly has made an embarrassing exit from the Australian Open after walking off the course part way through the first round.

Two-time major winner Daly quit after hitting six balls into the water from the 11th tee at The Lakes Golf Club.

The American then shook hands with playing partner Craig Parry before walking off the course.

"I would say this is the last time we see John Daly at this tournament," said tournament director Trevor Herden.

"I'm extremely bitter and disappointed. It's becoming a bit of a habit."

Daly, 45, also walked off during his second round at the Austrian Open at Atzenbrugg in late September following a rules infringement. On a previous visit to the Australian Open in 2008, he smashed a spectator's camera.

On this occasion, he was penalised two shots at the 10th hole for hitting the wrong ball out of a bunker, leaving him seven over for the round approaching the 11th.

Daly later tweeted: "When you run out of balls, you run out of balls. Yes I shook my playing partner's hands and signed my card with [the] rules official."

But Herden said running out of golf balls was no excuse for quitting in the middle of a round.

He added: "If you run out of golf balls and are acting in a professional manner, you would call the course officials and we would replenish his stock."

Daly, nicknamed 'Wild Thing', continues to attract invitations to tournaments around the world despite failing to win a title since 2004.

The big-hitting American won the 1991 US PGA Championship in Carmel, Indiana after finding out he would be playing just the day before the tournament.

He won the Open Championship in 1995 and has rarely been out of the headlines since - as much for his struggles with alcohol, gambling and relationship problems as for his golf.

The PGA of Australia said it had withdrawn Daly's invitation to the 24-27 November Australian PGA Championship at Coolum and said he would receive no appearance fee for either tournament.

"The PGA does not need this kind of behaviour tarnishing the achievements of other players and the reputation of our tournaments. John is not welcome at Coolum," Australian PGA chief executive Brian Thorburn said.

i say ha ha a ,,, some time,s i feel like that ,,but u must go on ////////

I thought once you run out of balls that was it, game over.

He's been a Knob! bad example to juniors and the like, far to many chances he's blown , plus promoted other golfers to dress like clowns!http://www.golfshake.com/scripts/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/wink_smile.gif" title="wink" width="20" /> shame as always admired him and still do, especially a little known fact.That during the first tourney he had won a spectator was struck by lightning and died.He donated on the quiet all his winnings to the family as a wife and two young daughters were left.He was'nt rich at this time infact was a struggling golfer himself.  

It will make a great movie one day but hopefully will eventually have a happy ending!

Before anyone one else says it, I am one of his clowns !!!!!!!!

A Club Golfer will just walk off the course, go have a few pints and all is forgotten. Everyone will say "we all have days like that, just don't want to carry on playing like that".

Alex Higgins once confessed that he hated Snooker but it paid for his lifestyle so continued playing.

JD is in the limelight and needs help, fast.

TheLyth

A great talent wasted similar to George Best and Paul Gascoigne. Add Mr Daly to lifes list of under achievers. A shame really because after he won at at St Andrews I have alaways been a fan. He needs help as said before.

regards,

Mike