Golfer John Daly loved a punt.
IF you know anything about wild man golfer John Daly, you know that his appetite for gambling is as prodigious as his love of fast food and hard liquor (he even has a vodka-based cocktail named for him).
He famously won $750,000 at the 2005 World Golf Championship in San Francisco, then hit Las Vegas, where he went on to celebrate by dumping $1.65 million into high-stakes slot machines.
Despite his seeming passion for one-armed bandits, nobody can accuse Daly of gambling like an old lady.
But as revealed on ESPNs 30 for 30 documentary about him, Hit It Hard which premiered this week, the financial whipping was worse than many thought.
We figured I lost about $98 million and won about $45 million gambling, Daly t…
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