And His Way, to employ his second-favorite verb, sucked. “Last year, he had nobody telling him he couldn’t do anything,” says his best friend since first grade, Donnie Crabtree, who until recently toured with and worked for Daly. “So he gambled and he drank and … it was the worst year of his career. Probably because he focused more on those things than he did on golf. I think there was a part of John that always felt like he was being constricted by being told, ‘You can’t drink. You can’t gamble,’ and that always kept him from living his life. He thought that’s what made him unhappy and contributed to him not having more success with the golf. Then last year he got to do all those things—there was no one telling him he couldn’t—and the golf was even worse.”