John Daly to play twice Down Under,
including Australian Masters

Unkind golf writers would say that Big Bad John Daly has been doing "down under" for years.
Australia is certainly where he is heading this month, first to play in the Huntingdale tournament at Royal Melbourne from November 27 to 30 and then on to the Australian Masters, which is part of the European Tour's Race to Dubai.
How a tournament played in Australia becomes part of the European Tour involves a huge leap of logic.
Daly is in the field for this week’s Hong Kong Open. He must be there because the (Australia) tournament organisers are quoting him as saying “I am looking forward to coming back to Australia. I’ve always enjoyed my trips there and I’m looking forward to competing.”
In February 1997 at the Heineken Classic in Australia, Daly shot a third-round 83 and then played the final round in just 2hr, 10min, angering tournament officials who had paid him a large appearance fee.
In November 2002, playing a week after his mother died, Daly threw his putter and ball into the lake on the 18th green after a 78 in the Australian PGA, where he received a $200,000 appearance fee.He was disqualified for failing to sign his card and fined $5,600 and ordered to write an apology to a tour official he verbally abused.
A scuba diver retrieved the ball and putter and it has been mounted in the pro shop at the Hyatt Regency Coolum course in Queensland State.
Daly recently spent a night in jail after being found “extremely intoxicated and uncooperative,” police said, outside a restaurant in Winston-Salem, North Caroliina.
He has made only five cuts in 17 starts on the US PGA Tour this year and earned $56,000.