Slim Daly pursues comeback

Twice major winner John Daly’s latest bid to resurrect his career is for his benefit and not to prove his detractors wrong, the American said on Wednesday.

Daly, 43, is rehabilitating by losing weight and trying to give up a diet and lifestyle that saw him balloon to nearly 280 pounds less than three months ago.

A surgical implant to prevent him binge eating has enabled him to slim down to 220 pounds, around the weight he was when he won the 1991 U.S. PGA Championship and 1995 British Open.

A desire to get his major-winning form back after being banned from playing on the U.S. PGA Tour for six months last November for bringing the tour into disrepute has been the driving force behind his weight loss, Daly said.

“I don’t have any points to prove to anyone,” Daly, who has committed to several European Tour events before his American ban ends in June, told reporters at the Spanish Open.

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