John Daly to Butch Harmon: Be a Man

No, seriously, John Daly is telling someone else to be a man, to step up to the plate, to take responsibility.

That someone else is Daly's erstwhile friend and coach, Butch Harmon. You remember the public way in which Harmon dumped Daly as a client earlier this year? Said the most important thing in Daly's life was getting drunk?

Today in Southport, England, where his past champion status gets him into the Open Championship, Daly was asked about the trouble he was having getting into other tournaments. And rather than, you know, stepping up - taking responsibility, being a man - by acknowledging that he wouldn't have to rely on exemptions and invitations had he not lost his status by, well, sucking, Daly went off on Harmon:

“His lies kind of destroyed my life for a little bit. The lies he said about being at the Hooters tent and all this stuff,” Daly said.

“I think he should become a man and talk about some of the stuff he lied about. I just wish he wouldn’t have said the things he did that made you guys (the press) write some pretty bad things about me when nobody really had the facts.

“Butch told the Golf Channel that I’m just a drunk and it was ridiculous that Coach Gruden (Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden) caddied for me. He just made up stuff and didn’t really know the facts were straight, and by putting it all over the world and not talking to me, it’s kind of ridiculous.

“Real men just don’t do that.”

Please, Mr. Daly, won't you tell us how real men act? Because lately I've been getting drunk a lot, loosing all my money at the blackjack table and getting in public fights with my wife. But that doesn't seem to be working for me, either.

Oh, and I, too, suck at golf!

This time, Harmon didn't take the bait:

“I’m sorry JD feels that way. I like JD. He’s a good guy. But he needs to step up to the plate and take responsibility for his actions instead of blaming everybody else.”