Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on John Daly: 'I like the way he does life'
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones explains why he is a big fan of golfer John Daly.
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John Daly had a health scare over the weekend when he collapsed and was taken to the hospital, but made a quick recovery and was back on the golf course the next day. Daly is a big Dallas Cowboys fan and is friends with owner Jerry Jones, who is a fellow University of Arkansas alum.
Last week, Jones went on on the Ben and Skin show on Dallas radio station KRLD-FM and spoke about why he's a big Daly fan. Jones got a bit existential and explained how he loves not just Daly as a golfer, but how he approaches life.
“I guess it’s just obvious when you’ve been down and out seemingly as many times as John has been, then you just become endeared to your fans,” Jones said, via GolfDigest.com. “And that’s happened with John. And we all know no one’s had more foibles or demonstrated more foibles than John looks like than Jerry knows Jerry’s had. And so that’s easy for me to identify with John. On the other hand I guess it’s from that Dardanelle (Arkansas) background in him that is really appealing to me as well. I like the way he plays the game, I like the way he does life.
“I think his swing…it’s indicative of what John is about. That thing, when he draws back and hits it, he curls all the way around and he’s got that big old belly, he goes completely around and that golf club seems to touch the other toe and he just unwinds and hits that little old ball on the other side of that 360-degree arc. Now that’s impossible to do almost. He does it almost every time. But imagine the leverage. And that’s the way he hits life, I think.”
It's actually a pretty eloquent statement from Jones about Daly's golf game mirroring his life approach and how he tries to get everything he can out of both. Daly is certainly a free spirit and, whether you agree with the rest of his choices in lifestyle, that's something we all can strive to be.
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