John Daly Once Lost Nearly 70 Pounds With an Extremely Dangerous Diet

Published 09/16/2022, 5:00 PM EDT

When you go to the gym or try to lose weight, the first thing that your trainer tells you is to eat right. But in the case of Claret Jug winner, John Daly, it was different and unbelievable.

The 56-year-old- once revealed his extreme diet, which he followed and resulted in losing almost 70 kgs. And you will not believe the things he ate and drank. But to solve the mystery, we are to tell you about his unbelievable diet.

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Daly’s love for golf

John Daly’s name has often been on the news because of his addiction and health. He might not be an elite golfer, but he has positioned himself as someone people want to watch on the course. But it wasn’t always good. There was a time when the lovable Daly suffered an unfortunate incident. It was the year 2015 when Daly had a fall.

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Daly was heading to Canton, Mississippi, to play a local golf tournament. He suddenly had a fall while walking with a golfer, and he claimed Daly had no pulse. He was short of breath and was taken to the hospital immediately. He suffered a lung collapse. But this incident could not stop his love for golf. The next day, he was back on the course of the Country Club of Canton, ready to play.

Extreme weight loss of John Daly

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Daly’s health has been in the news many times. And his love for golf made him do unbelievable things. His utter weight fluctuation had people worried. John Daly’s weight changes were because of his alcohol and sugar issues. He had this bad habit of consuming alcohol and sugar during college. His college coach at the University of Arkansas asked him to lose weight. After which, Daly opted for an unbelievably extreme diet.

It was 2017, when he told about his diet. He talked about his college days and how he lost weight. His college coach asked him to lose weight if he wanted to keep playing golf at Arkansas. And to everyone’s surprise, Daly lost 67 pounds in 2 1/2 months. The golf player in Arkansas wanted to play so badly that he adopted a bizarre diet. And all this was because of Jack Daniels and popcorn. Yes, that was his diet for 2 1/2 months. All he did was drink alcohol and eat popcorn. He significantly lost weight.

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A Commerce graduate who turned her passion into her profession, Saumya is a Golf writer at Essentially Sports. Having developed the love for the sport at a very young age, she watched Tiger Woods and caught inspiration from his legacy early on. Apart from Woods, she shares great admiration for her country's players like Vishwanathan Anand and Neeraj Chopra.

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Manaal Siddiqui

John Daly Once Lost Nearly 70 Pounds With an Extremely Dangerous Diet

Daly’s love for golf

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