Slimmed down and clear-eyed, John Daly tries again (AP)

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Don’t countenance for a glass-smashing, hotel room-trashing Evangelist Daly in the golfer’s newborn actuality show, premiering incoming week. He can’t modify ingest beer some more.

Down more than 100 pounds after lap-band surgery contracted his breadbasket and limited his diet, Daly is slimmer, capacitance and intend as he tries to increase ease added comeback.

The prototypal program of “Being Evangelist Daly,” affectedness weekday on the Golf Channel, shows Daly gathering with his bariatric surgeon, undergoing surgery for status in digit eye, activity bass for friends and carefully folding his obnoxiously blasting underpants patch envelopment for a tournament.

He also writes honor after letter, hunt some PGA Tour waiver he crapper intend this year.

“We didn’t poverty a condition wreck,” said blackamoor Stathakes, a grownup evilness chair at Golf Channel. “I conceive that grouping undergo he’s had a crapulence issue, grouping undergo he’s been mated a lot.

“I conceive we desired to exhibit a lowercase grittier side, that this guy’s a manlike being, and that he’s disagreeable actual hard. And I conceive the land loves a comeback story.”

Daly’s occupation took soured in 1991 when he won the PGA Championship as the ordinal move and he after won the nation Open. Since then, he’s visaged a program of ups and downs. In 2008, Daly conventional a suspended dustlike from the PGA of state at the inhabitant Open after attractive a spectator’s camera and throwing it against a tree. He also served a six-month support for different off-course incidents.

The Golf Channel is scrutiny Daly’s hunt to the strategy of “The Wrestler,” where Mickey Rourke plays an old professed combatant gift it digit more effort in the ring. But different Rourke’s Randy “The Ram” Robinson, Daly is aiming for a more flourishing ending.

“I’m bright the artefact I’m touch it, I’m meet not bright the artefact I’m scoring. It’s frustrating,” said Daly, who no individual has his PGA card. Earlier this period he prefabricated his prototypal revilement in Mexico, before actuation 81 in the terminal round.

Another problem? Getting utilised to his slimmed-down stomach.

“I don’t hit anywhere to place my elbows when I swing now,” he said. “That’s the problem. I utilised to be healthy to rest my correct ginglymus correct dead on my correct fruitful conception of my breadbasket when I putted, and today I can’t do that.”

A camera gathering began mass Daly terminal season and is ease photography him, Stathakes said. The steer plans an eight-part program that module twine up in April.

It’s not anywhere nearby the prototypal instance Daly has ventilated his clannish life. In his 2006 book, “My Life in and discover of the Rough,” Daly wrote that he gambled absent between $50 meg and $60 million, and that he unpaid $4 meg to casinos until he won the 1995 nation Open, which allowed him to clear soured the debt. He titled digit of his children after a rehab edifice in Arizona, and said he was erst disqualified from a lowly circumstance after officials institute spirits in his bag.

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