BANNED IN THE USA

1 The American is now banned from the US tour, for which he had been one of the biggest draws, for six months. The final transgression for the authorities appears to have come in October, when he was arrested in North Carolina and held overnight after being found drunk outside Hooters, the bar chain that also happened to be his main sponsor

KING OF THE OLD COURSE

2 His second major championship win came at St Andrews in 1995, when his touch around the greens and power off the tee left him tied at the top with Costantino Rocca after 72 holes and then earned him a playoff victory

TEARS FOR BEERS

3 He has tried to dry out more times than George Best, with mixed results. At a tournament in 1998, Daly appeared to be suffering from the morning-after shakes and he was once accused of harassing an air stewardess. He was in trouble again last year when he teed up his ball on a beer can in a pro-am event and spent a rain delay in the hospitality tent, prompting former coach Butch Harmon to say: “The most important thing in [Daly’s] life is getting drunk”

LIBELLING SHANAE

4 In 2000 police were called to break up an argument at a McDonald’s between Daly and his fiancée at the time, Shanae Chandler. Six years later she sued over comments he had made in 2001. “I had a buddy of mine from the FBI tailin’ her for three weeks . . . [She] was cheatin’ on me! She was lyin’ to me!”

ROCKING THE CAVERN

5 Golfer, gambler . . . and guitarist - is there no end to his talents? When the Open returned to Hoylake, near Liverpool, in 2006, Daly did a gig at the city’s Cavern club, where the Beatles forged their early reputation. The highlight was apparently a rendition of Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door. He did not perform All my Exes wear Rolexes, but Lost Soul, supposedly about wife Sherrie (first line: “I lost my mom three years ago, Dad pulled a gun on me”), was on the set list

BAD BETTYE

6 Bettye Fulford was there for the first major win in 1991 but the couple had split by the end of the year, when Daly learnt that Fulford was not the 29-year-old divorcee she presented herself as but nine years older and still married. In 1993, he pleaded guilty to harassing her

JOHN WHO?

7 The world first got to know “Wild Thing” when he won the US PGA title in 1991 at Crooked Stick. Daly was given a place in the field after Nick Price withdrew at the last moment. With Price’s caddie on the bag but without the luxury of a practice round, Daly stunned everybody with his prodigious length off the tee to triumph by three strokes. He was the first golfer in 15 years to win a major in his rookie year

DOWN IN VEGAS

8 In 2006 Daly claimed in his autobiography that he had lost more than $50m through gambling. The biggest hit came in 2005 when he turned the $750,000 he had won at the WGC-American Express tournament a few days earlier into a $1.5m loss after a forgettable session in Las Vegas

PAULETTE PROBLEMS

9 Married in Vegas in 1995 (he wore cowboy boots and jeans, she wore white), John and Paulette were doomed when Daly fell off the wagon and they split up in 1997

BITTER SHERRIE

10 Next up was Sherrie Miller, the couple marrying in 2001. But Miller and her parents were charged with laundering drug money. She served a five-month sentence in 2006 and a year later Daly turned up at a tournament with scratch marks on his cheek. He said Sherrie had tried to attack him