Working On Being A Memory

The professional golfer, John Daley is an interesting guy.

You know him. He's the big hitter. He was the big eater, the big gambler, the big drinker, the guy who couldn't stay out of his own way.

Daley is also a great golfer and there's some question on whether or not he wasted some of that talent. In any regard, he's always interesting to all of us who like to hit a golf ball on the weekends.

We root for him because he can take a ten on a hole and just shrug it off.

'He's like us,' we think, but he's really not. He's a talented golfer, but he sort of looks like us.

And he doesn't always do it the politically correct way.

I remember an interview he did a while back when he won a golf tournament, got the million dollar payoff, went to Vegas, and lost most of it while playing slots. He was betting $500 a pull.

Whoever was interviewing him was beside himself.

"Were you nervous betting that much money?

"No, but I got real excited when I hit a couple of cherries."

And that's how Daley lived his life back then. Piss on caution. Go for it! The hell with the consequences! Go big or go home!

I happened upon a Daley interview this week on the Dan Patrick Show.

Time has zapped some of that all or nothing mentality.

Daley has had lap band surgery. He doesn't drink alcohol, but he smokes a massive amount of cigarettes each day.

Patrick asked him about his love of Diet Cokes.

"I only drink about a quarter of what I used to," he said. "So only like ten or twelve a day."

He's not golfing very well now. He said that he has the yips.

Patrick asked him if he had regrets. Dan wondered if he ever thought about how many tournaments he could have won had he applied himself in the prime of his life.

A lesson we all wonder about in our own lives.

"Someday I'm just gonna' be a memory to people," he said. "We all are. Life is just about being a memory."

Patrick laughed.

But I thought it was a wonderful line coming from where Daley sits now.

His long, booming drives are a memory now, but he once went for it, big-time, and he got a taste.

"Can you still win?"

"I will," Daley said. "Someday I'll win again."

Dream big.

Make the memory.

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