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Teed Off: My life as a player's wife on the PGA tour
Sherrie Daly, the former wife of PGA tour superstar John Daly, takes a swing at the controversial man called “Wild Thing” in this jaw-dropping memoir about what really goes on behind the scenes of professional golf.
In this explosive tell-all, Sherrie Daly goes beyond the polite clapping, collared shirts, and hushed voices and exposes the darker side of the golf the groupies, party-crazed athletes, and blatant infidelity. After being married to player (in all senses of the word) John Daly for nine years, Sherrie knows this better than anyone.
It’s no secret that John, one of the PGA tour’s most popular stars, was known for his erratic behavior and on-the-edge lifestyle as much as for his powerful, grip-it-and-rip-it style on the green. But Sherrie goes beyond the public persona to dish on John’s out-of-control antics throughout their marriage, many of which she helped cover up to protect his career, and his self-destructive addictions to whiskey, sex, and gambling, which led him to lose one of his biggest purses ever—nearly one million dollars—in an hour. She writes candidly about the physical and emotional abuse she endured and why she continued to play the role of golf wife despite the trashed hotel rooms, wrecked homes, and demolished cars. Then she turns the tables on herself, sharing the truth behind her catfights with his girlfriends, her legal troubles, and especially the night John alleged she attacked him with a steak knife.
After years in the exclusive players’ wives club, Sherrie Daly is Teed Off and ready to rip the game’s well-groomed facade to shreds.
In this explosive tell-all, Sherrie Daly goes beyond the polite clapping, collared shirts, and hushed voices and exposes the darker side of the golf the groupies, party-crazed athletes, and blatant infidelity. After being married to player (in all senses of the word) John Daly for nine years, Sherrie knows this better than anyone.
It’s no secret that John, one of the PGA tour’s most popular stars, was known for his erratic behavior and on-the-edge lifestyle as much as for his powerful, grip-it-and-rip-it style on the green. But Sherrie goes beyond the public persona to dish on John’s out-of-control antics throughout their marriage, many of which she helped cover up to protect his career, and his self-destructive addictions to whiskey, sex, and gambling, which led him to lose one of his biggest purses ever—nearly one million dollars—in an hour. She writes candidly about the physical and emotional abuse she endured and why she continued to play the role of golf wife despite the trashed hotel rooms, wrecked homes, and demolished cars. Then she turns the tables on herself, sharing the truth behind her catfights with his girlfriends, her legal troubles, and especially the night John alleged she attacked him with a steak knife.
After years in the exclusive players’ wives club, Sherrie Daly is Teed Off and ready to rip the game’s well-groomed facade to shreds.
234 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 4, 2011
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April 17, 2023
RICK “SHAQ” GOLDSTEIN SAYS: “DISGUSTING DRUNKEN GOLFER AND THE SHOPPING… DRINKING WIFE… WHO SPENT HIS MONEY”
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I have never played a round of golf in my life and I have never watched a golf tournament on TV. But being a non-golf sports fanatic it’s impossible not to know about John Daly and all the other star golfers over the years, simply by osmosis when watching Sports Center or reading the myriad of sports magazines that I subscribe to. I bought this book to dig deeper into the utter personal meltdown of the “everyman” underdog favorite… John Daly. Daly is known to even the non-golf fan as a long-driving-drunken-strange-clothes-wearing-addicted-gambler-multi-married-multi-divorced-chain-smoking-mercurial-professional-spectacle. His life… and this “tell-all” book by ex-wife number four… is simply missing the family dog being run over by a truck… in order to be the all-time prototypical drunken country western song. Sherrie Daly divides her writing time equally between discussing John’s pass-out drunken episodes and infidelity… his Jekyll and Hyde persona… with equal parts claiming not to have married him… nor stayed with him… for the money and fame… and yet every other page describes shopping sprees in the tens of thousands… and more thousands… and more thousands of dollars.
Each time John either gets pass-out drunk… or literally whips it out… whether in front of his Mother and pees on the wall because he didn’t like a new paint color in a redecorated house… or does the same thing on the floor… for some forgettable by this point reason… or the numerous times Sherrie claims he did it in a drunken stupor in their bed… and yet she stays. And she always seems to justify her mental anguish by dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a morale building shopping trip. But she’s not with him for the money???
John smashes out windows in million dollar busses… he smashes her $200,000.00 Mercedes… he destroys other busses… she catches him in bed with women… he disappears for days at a time… without answering a phone call… he loses over a million dollars gambling while Sherrie is showering and getting dressed in a hotel room. So Sherrie spends another ten thousand dollars or more… and stays with him… but she’s not with him for the money… is what she constantly tries to convince the reader of.
Then there’s the time “HE TOOK ALL OF THE JEWELRY HE HAD BOUGHT ME, PLUS SOME PIECES I’D BEEN GIVEN BY OTHER FRIENDS-WE’RE TALKING ROLEXES, HARRY WINSTON WATCHES, AND SOME THINGS THAT REALLY MEANT A LOT TO ME, LIKE THE CROSS HE GAVE ME WHEN MY MOM WENT TO JAIL-AND SMASHED THEM ALL WITH A HAMMER. IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE $300,000.00 WORTH OF JEWELRY. ALL GONE.”
And guess what? She stayed… but it wasn’t for the money!!!
After Sherrie spent 150 days in jail, and then while she spent 150 days under house arrest (Don’t worry she swears she was innocent as well as her parents who also spent time in the slammer.) she says: “ONE DAY I BOUGHT THIRTY-SIX PAIRS OF SHOES OVER THE PHONE, ALL IN ONE GO, FROM MY FAVORITE STORE.” But again… she wasn’t with Daly for the money.
I think you get the idea. Daly is definitely a sad, sick, individual… even with $1.8 million dollar endorsements from Taylor Made… and who knows how much from Hooters… and his relationship with Hooters is another country western song unto itself… but she didn’t hang on all those years for the money!
This is not a feel good book… and the author does not come across much cleaner than her subject John Daly. But of course none of it was about the money.
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I have never played a round of golf in my life and I have never watched a golf tournament on TV. But being a non-golf sports fanatic it’s impossible not to know about John Daly and all the other star golfers over the years, simply by osmosis when watching Sports Center or reading the myriad of sports magazines that I subscribe to. I bought this book to dig deeper into the utter personal meltdown of the “everyman” underdog favorite… John Daly. Daly is known to even the non-golf fan as a long-driving-drunken-strange-clothes-wearing-addicted-gambler-multi-married-multi-divorced-chain-smoking-mercurial-professional-spectacle. His life… and this “tell-all” book by ex-wife number four… is simply missing the family dog being run over by a truck… in order to be the all-time prototypical drunken country western song. Sherrie Daly divides her writing time equally between discussing John’s pass-out drunken episodes and infidelity… his Jekyll and Hyde persona… with equal parts claiming not to have married him… nor stayed with him… for the money and fame… and yet every other page describes shopping sprees in the tens of thousands… and more thousands… and more thousands of dollars.
Each time John either gets pass-out drunk… or literally whips it out… whether in front of his Mother and pees on the wall because he didn’t like a new paint color in a redecorated house… or does the same thing on the floor… for some forgettable by this point reason… or the numerous times Sherrie claims he did it in a drunken stupor in their bed… and yet she stays. And she always seems to justify her mental anguish by dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a morale building shopping trip. But she’s not with him for the money???
John smashes out windows in million dollar busses… he smashes her $200,000.00 Mercedes… he destroys other busses… she catches him in bed with women… he disappears for days at a time… without answering a phone call… he loses over a million dollars gambling while Sherrie is showering and getting dressed in a hotel room. So Sherrie spends another ten thousand dollars or more… and stays with him… but she’s not with him for the money… is what she constantly tries to convince the reader of.
Then there’s the time “HE TOOK ALL OF THE JEWELRY HE HAD BOUGHT ME, PLUS SOME PIECES I’D BEEN GIVEN BY OTHER FRIENDS-WE’RE TALKING ROLEXES, HARRY WINSTON WATCHES, AND SOME THINGS THAT REALLY MEANT A LOT TO ME, LIKE THE CROSS HE GAVE ME WHEN MY MOM WENT TO JAIL-AND SMASHED THEM ALL WITH A HAMMER. IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE $300,000.00 WORTH OF JEWELRY. ALL GONE.”
And guess what? She stayed… but it wasn’t for the money!!!
After Sherrie spent 150 days in jail, and then while she spent 150 days under house arrest (Don’t worry she swears she was innocent as well as her parents who also spent time in the slammer.) she says: “ONE DAY I BOUGHT THIRTY-SIX PAIRS OF SHOES OVER THE PHONE, ALL IN ONE GO, FROM MY FAVORITE STORE.” But again… she wasn’t with Daly for the money.
I think you get the idea. Daly is definitely a sad, sick, individual… even with $1.8 million dollar endorsements from Taylor Made… and who knows how much from Hooters… and his relationship with Hooters is another country western song unto itself… but she didn’t hang on all those years for the money!
This is not a feel good book… and the author does not come across much cleaner than her subject John Daly. But of course none of it was about the money.
August 29, 2017
It's hard to decide which of these folks are a bigger mess,John Daly or Sherrie,one of several wives.If this book was meant to show her as the more truthful, more sensible of the two, it doesn't come off that way, in fact, she seems every bit as insane as he is. He is obviously an alcoholic gambling addict, she is just your garden variety opportunistic Bilbo. They DO belong together. I read the book because I saw her appearance on a talk show and she seemed sensible enough, and I thought it might be an insight to living with an actively practising alcoholic. It was that, to be sure, but she is every bit as much of a train wreck as he is. I feel truly and deeply sorry for both kids who were and will be the casualties of this relationship.The book is entertaining in sort of a National Enquierer sort of way.
Unless you have a strong stomach for debauchery, or need pointers on how NOT to conduct a marriage, you might want to pass on this one.
Unless you have a strong stomach for debauchery, or need pointers on how NOT to conduct a marriage, you might want to pass on this one.
April 11, 2011
This lady is a hot mess! So far the book is so repetitive, but I guess when you are married to John Daly you experience the same crazy behavior over and over again. Of course she glazes over her shortcomings but that was expected. Also I find it interesting that she brings up several times her severe hatred for strippers but thought it was appropriate to wear what most strippers would consider golf attire while posing on a golf cart for her book cover. Nice dirty read. Got exactly what I wanted.
January 14, 2016
Poorly written in a conversational style that made me feel sorry for Sherrie not only because of what she endured as a wife but more so because she comes across as completely daffy, drunk and a horrible mother and wife. John Daly is no angel but this book read like a middle school he said - she said tattle tale story. Ugh.
May 20, 2011
It doesn't look like Tiger was the only one getting into so much trouble. This is written by one of John Daly's ex-wives. Who knew these PGA guys party this hard? The best line in the book has to be: "When Brett Michaels is the voice of reason, you know you're in trouble."
May 28, 2017
Interesting perspective from someone outside of golf!!
August 8, 2011
Entertaining read, but really sad for the two children caught up in this train wreck.
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