John Daly's story has always been the stuff of fiction. You just don't win one of golf's four major championships having never seen the course, let alone getting into the field as an obscure alternate. Yet, 30 years ago, in 1991, John Daly emerged as the long-hitting "grip-it-and-rip-it'' folk hero when he won the PGA Championship at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana.
Then 25 years old, Daly was the ninth alternate, only getting into the field after Nick Price withdrew for the birth of his first child on the eve of the first round.