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GOLF: PGA: Daly Reveals Butch Apology

/noticias.info/ John Daly tees up in today's Seville Open having smoothed over his row with former coach Butch Harmon.

The 42-year-old American revealed Harmon had apologised over comments made about the former Open champion's drinking earlier in the season.

Harmon angered Daly at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Invitational by saying the most important thing in the Wild Thing's life was getting drunk.

The quip came after Daly spent time during a rain delay in a hospitality tent and then resumed play with the coach of the local gridiron team carrying his bag.

However Daly insisted he'd enlisted a replacement caddie because his regular bag carrier was struggling with a neck problem.

"Butch didn't have his facts straight. We've spoken since and he has apologised to me," said Daly.

"He said he didn't realise and he felt bad about it. I told him I'd lost a K-Mart deal - that was going to be big with shirts hopefully going into 1,400 stores - and that he'd cost me quite a bit of money with the stuff that he said.

"My marketability went down. It was just rumours, rumours, rumours that just weren't true and Butch seemed to believe them without talking to me.

"The coach was great for the tournament. I shot one over for those six holes, which was better than I was doing.

"Off the course it's just been really weird. The Hooters thing I did for charity - they were selling tickets for 50 dollars - but the media didn't walk to talk about that.

"It's been pretty much a bunch of lies written and it's been pretty sad. I'm used to it by now. I've lived my life with it.

"I am fine. Yeah, there was drinking involved, but that does not mean I am drinking."

Daly will place in Spain and next week's Italian Open in Milan. notas_de_prensa_archivo