The legend of Golf John Daly revealed that her bladder cancer has been in remission for four years.
Daly, 58, spoke of discovering that he had cancer in a recent appearance of Podcast which was broadcast last month.
“It was frightening,” said Daly during an appearance on the “Podcast Farmer”. “I was peeing blood, Pukin’s blood. … I thought my back killed me, and I didn’t know. And I went to Little Rock, I made an assessment and everything on my back and then was it a neurologist? Doctor saw him and said:” You have to come back. “”
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John Daly on the 16th green in the first round of the championship open to Royal Troon. (Jack Gruber / USA TODAY SPORTS)
“I was fixing to go to Hooters, get wings in Little Rock, and he called and said:” No, does not eat anything. I have to bring you back here. “And I’m going to:” Why? “And [he said]”Well, you have cancer. You have bladder cancer ”. What else can happen, you know? “”
Daly said that as long as he’s who crosses him and not his children, he can face it.
“As long as it is me and not my children, I can face it. So, I come back. They have caught up in time. I have been in remission for four years, but I have to take stock once a year – God thank you – and not two. Whoever has a bladder cancer, that thing that goes in your pee does not feel well,” said Daly.
The legend of the John Daly golf announces that he has undergone emergency surgery
“Hey, I take care of it.
As for her golf game, Daly admitted that her health problems did not allow him to play at the level he did.
“I can no longer set goals for golf. Fight bladder cancer and all this shit with all surgeries is not an excuse. It’s just that no one can play very well when they are not healthy,” said Daly.
John Daly flows a putt on the first green during the PNC championship at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. (Nathan Ray Seebeck / Imagn Images)
“I go out there, and I do my best I can. But I still want to play golf. I always want to play on the champions tour. I just want to compete better, and right now I can’t.
“But I’m going to continue to cringe it because you never know. This putter becomes hot. … I don’t care if you have an arm, one leg, this putter becomes hot, you can play a very good golf course because we have all struck it well.”
In addition to his cancer in remission, Daly revealed that he had undergone an emergency surgery in hand in January in a position on social networks and said that he would be back in time “.
The golf icon has not played during the PGA Champions tour since October.
Daly played at the PGA championship and the open championship last year, but retired after the first round in the two tournaments.
During her career, Daly won five PGA Tour victories, including two major championship victories.
John Daly after putting the 16th green in the first round of the championship open to Royal Troon. (Jack Gruber / USA TODAY SPORTS)
Daly won the PGA championship in 1991, then the British Open in 1995. His last victory over the PGA Tour was at the Buick Invitational in 2004.
Daly won the PNC 2021 father-son championship with her son, John Daly II.
Daly won nearly $ 13 million in earnings during her career, according to the PGA Tour website.
