JON DALY: I did this movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, with Adam and on set we would just—I had made the “Jon Daly is John Daly” website and Adam Scott the golfer, I think it was just before he had won the Masters. He was definitely on a roll though. He was winning tournaments and he was just coming out of the Champions. Now, Adam Scott’s Twitter was turning up the wrong web search because Adam Scott the actor was more famous than him. But to some extent Adam Scott’s search results were getting messed up by Adam Scott the actor. I wanted to do the next kind of “Identity Project” with Jon Daly and so I pitched it to Adam on the set, he said “Yeah,” and two and a half years later we made it!

Adult Swim has had a very interesting history with these one-off specials. Adam Scott himself had a lot of success with his Greatest Event in Television History series. How did your experience with this one come about? Were they just giving you a special and you wanted to pursue this, or was it always this golf beast?

Right, this was this idea from the start.

Interesting!

It was all kind of in the JonDalyisJohnDaly.com vein. It was just this thing. I’ve been playing John Daly live and tried getting involved with the audience and becoming very obnoxious. I wanted to do the next part of this and so it all just kind of came together. Adam Scott was real and I was real and it was just this crazy opportunity. So yeah, it was just the right place and the right time, basically.