Golfer John Daly shares dark health update, says: “Waking up is a victory for me”

Months after the hand surgery of emergencies and in the middle of his ongoing health struggles, John Daly says that he was not ready to give up Golf-Deprass of a Plus-27-load space at the weekend.

“I am like Lazarus, I keep coming back from the dead,” said Daly of Associated Press this week. “Waking up is a victory for me.”

The 59-year-old golfer-der at the PGA Tour Champions played fighter at the Insperity Invitational in Texas last weekend, while his recovery recovered from January surgery to his left hand.

And although he will not take advantage of his lifelong liberation to play the PGA championship next weekend (he won the tournament in 1991), he will record it in the tradition of the regions of the Senior Golf Tour, which is planned for the same data, he told AP.

“I can go there and miss the cut and get $ 6,000,” said Daly about the PGA championship. “But I play Birmingham. I love regions. You are a great sponsor. But why are you planning regions of the same week as the PGA championship where I can see Brooks (Koepka) and all the boys?”

The legendary golfer, which has won five PGA events, including two majors, is known for its unconventional clothing and cigarette choming behavior during the course.

And it doesn’t seem to be given up in his DNA.

In an interview in September 2020 with the golf channel, he vowed to continue playing after shaping his bladder cancer diagnosis.

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“I cut a way back, far back into the diet -cola and counted minutes before I can have a cigarette,” he said at the time. “I’m trying to smoke, the doctors don’t say that it’s too late.”

Daly announced that his cancer in an episode of February 19 was in remission for four years Like a farmer Podcast.