Golfer Daly's gambling losses top $A70m
John Daly says he has lost between $US50 million and $US60 million ($A66 million and $A79 million) during 12 years of heavy gambling, and that it has become a problem that could "flat-out ruin me" if he doesn't bring it under control.
Daly discussed his addiction to gambling in the final chapter of his autobiography, "John Daly: My Life In and Out of the Rough," to be released next Monday.
He told one story of earning $US750,000 ($A992,000) when he lost in a playoff to Tiger Woods last year in San Francisco at a World Golf Championship event. Instead of going home, he drove to Las Vegas and says he lost $US1.65 million ($A2.18 million) in five hours playing mostly $US5,000 ($A6,600) slot machines.