Golf legend John Daly revealed that his bladder cancer has been in remission for four years.
Daly, 58, talked about discovering that he had cancer in a recent podcast appearance that was broadcast last month.
“It was terrifying,” Daly said during an appearance in “like a farmer podcast.” “I was urinating blood, Pukin’s blood … I thought my back was killing me, and I didn’t know. And I went in Little Rock, I got a check and everything in my back and then, was it a neurologist? The doctor saw him and said: ‘You have to come back.’
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John Daly on Green during the first round of the championship opened in Royal Troon. (Jack Gruber/USA Today Sports)
“I was fixing to go to Hooters, get some wings in Little Rock, and he called and said: ‘No, you don’t eat anything. I have to take you here.” And I say,’ Why? ‘ AND [he said]’Well, you have cancer. You have bladder cancer ‘. What else can happen, you know? “
Daly said that whenever he is to go through him and not his children, he can deal with that.
“While I am and not my children, I can deal with that. So, I return. They caught him on time. I have been in remission for the last four years, but I have to make a check once a year, thank God, and not two. Anyone who has bladder cancer, that thing that goes in your hair does not feel good,” Daly said.
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“Hey, I just deal with that. You simply deal with that and try to do all these injuries and everything, try to play the best you can.”
As for his golf game, Daly admitted that his health problems do not allow him to play at the level he once did.
“I can no longer establish goals for golf. Fighting bladder cancer and all that garbage with all surgeries is not an excuse. It’s simply no one can play very well when they are not healthy,” said Daly.
John Daly sinks a putt in the first green during the PNC championship at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/Imagn images)
“I go out, and I do the best I can. But I still want to play golf. I still want to play on the Champions League tour. I just want to compete better, and at this time there is no way I can.
“But I’m going to keep masting because you never know. That putter heats up … I don’t care if you have an arm, a leg, that putter gets hot, you can play a really good golf because we all hit it well.”
In addition to his cancer, Daly revealed that he underwent emergency surgery in his hand in January in a position to social networks and said he would “play again.”
The golf icon has not played at the Champions Tour PGA since October.
Daly played in the PGA championship and the championship opened last year, but retired after the first round in both tournaments.
In his career, Daly has five victories of PGA Tour, including two important victories in championship.
John Daly after putting on the 16th Green during the first round of the championship opened in Royal Troon. (Jack Gruber/USA Today Sports)
Daly won the PGA Championship in 1991 and then the British Open in 1995. His last victory at the PGA Tour was in the Invitational Buick in 2004.
Daly won the 2021 PNC father-son championship with his son, John Daly II.
Daly has won almost $ 13 million in profits in his career, according to the PGA Tour website.
