PGA Legend John Daly’s Most Valuable Golf Secrets Revealed

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John Daly drops all sorts of golf wisdom in this 7 minute on course golf lesson with the pros.
In all my years watching John Daly play I always assumed he was just a guy that tried to hit the ball as hard as he could and hope for the best. I was wrong.
John spends as much time working on finesse shots and half swings as he does on his long bomb drives.
In this video Daly walks through his through process on one handed chips, 3/4 golf swings from 160 yards and in, how he learned the golf game (Jack Nicklaus comics in Golf Digest – Spoiler alert) and much more.

I find these older videos with PGA pros fascinating when they are just talking about their swing philosophies and course management. Priceless.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

90% of amateurs that hit bad shots. It’s their back swing. I learned from Jack Nicholas, whether he knew it or not. It was a golf digest, golf lesson tease. It was like one through I don’t know how many. Um they look like cartoon pictures on how how to fade the ball, how to draw it. They had arrows and stuff. He showed his grip. I learned the grip, the interlocking grip through him. That to me has been the greatest. And that’s that’s what got me in the game of golf is watching him following him and and those lessons that he did on on paper, not you know, it’s amazing when you play with amateurs a lot. People that hit out of the rough, they grip the club so tight that they think it’s going to help them advance the ball. When I hit out of the rough, I like to loosen my hands up as much as possible. And right at impact, my left arm just just hits basically hits the ball. The looser the grip, the better chance the club has chance of getting through the the grass. What’s about 80 ft? Yeah. All I like to try and do is just make sure I get the line. Of course, the speed. You want to get, you know, you want to make sure the speed’s good. Um, of course, this is a putt that’s, you know, you’re not always going to make. Um, unless you’re Tiger Woods. Um, but my my goal here is to try and get close enough to where I can at least two putt and get a good birdie and go on to the next toe with some momentum. Yep. Tough putt. Speed was good, but just the wrong direction. I’m more of a feel putter. I feel the, you know, when I see the line, I just try and hit that line. And it’s all about speed. I heard you once say that uh biggest problem that your proam and amateurs have is not enough club. Yeah, I think uh pretty much 100% of the pros that play on Wednesday with amateurs, they they say the same thing. Um I don’t know. I I don’t know if it’s if they’re scared of going over a green, but I would I would rather try and at least get it there to knock, you know, have a chance getting it close than never hitting enough club. I’m I look I never look behind the hole. Peter, my caddy does sometimes when we’re confused when I’m confused on one. But I see a line real quick. I always have. And uh and usually if I hit my line, I got a good chance of making it. I don’t know what it is, but uh I’ve always been that way. I just look at it from behind, take two practice swings, and hit it. If I have hit it, have gone in maybe. Oh, short shorty got me. Shorty putt. Same thing. Quicker the better. Yeah. Well, it’s like Lee Travino said, you know, one time he said the way he puted fast. You don’t worry about you don’t have anything to worry about. The pressure’s gone. Well, I got a downhill chip pretty much. It’s uphill downhill. It’s a pretty tough chip, but uh I use my L wedge and try and flop it. I never really go over a wedge. Every now and then a nine iron if it’s a real long chip. But since we’re practicing, this is that shot I was telling you about. I like to practice is just sit here with one hand and just kind of flop it up like that. And what’s great about that is is when you hit a shot one-handed and you hit it like that, it’s so crisp. You know you’re doing everything right. Every time before I tee off in a tournament, I take my 52 and hit about 10 or 20 balls with my left hand only. And what that does for me is it it all my swings, you know, I always want to finish here in inside 160 yards. I always want to finish the iron shot here cuz I’ve hit nothing but 3/4 shots now. And a lot of my long irons I do the same thing unless I really go at it. But that has made me that’s what’s improved my whole game is just hitting one-handed shots. Sometimes a lot of people don’t when they put two hands on the club and they’re hitting it, you know, left, right, dribbling or whatever, they don’t really have a clue. They I mean they have a clue, but they don’t know which hand may be affecting their swing. So, if you get a if you get a right-handed golfer, so the left-hander would be more like their their right hand, you know, going that way. But if you can practice this shot and hit it like that, solid and crisp every time, there’s something in your back swing that you’re doing right. You’re doing everything right. And 90% of amateurs that hit bad shots, it’s their back swing because they pick the club up, take it way outside, take it way inside. If I was to take this chip shot, you know, like that way outside, then I got to somehow get the club back to here to hit it square. Or if you take it too far inside, you got to get here to get it there. But what’s happened with my left arm is it’s just everything is just so square throughout the whole chip. You know, I can go 70 yards is about the furthest I can hit one left-handed, but when I hit it online and hit it solid, I’m doing everything right on my takeaway. So when I go to hitting long irons and stuff, I feel like I’m chipping. You I’m letting the left left arm just take the club back and the right arm’s just sitting on there until impact. And same thing with putting, too. I like to hit a lot of one-handed putts because if you don’t follow through, the the ball’s going to go right or left every time. So, I said, “I love to practice one-handed because the good thing about it is you always follow through because the putter’s so heavy.” And that’s pretty much a key thing is is making sure you follow through every time you hit a putt. And I think if you’re if guys out there are really long hitters, they want to be good players. Nicholas was the greatest at He avoided the left side all of his life. Off the tea, all I’m visualizing, if you can see that far, far little skinny tree back way back there. I always like to pinpoint something I’m going to aim at. With the longer stuff, I aim at something where I’m going to I’m going to aim it, hit it there, and then fade it away from that is what I’m trying to say. Sure. I just think of aiming. And my key to my golf swing is low and slow on the back on the takeaway. And that’s that’s what that’s that left hand You’re hitting your irons an awful lot on a golf course. And if you can tone those and like, you know, if you got 170 yards, if you know your shot instead of getting up there guessing, am I going to hook it? Am I going to pull it? Am I going to push it? Am I going to cut it? Well, if you can work on that one shot that’s going to be your feel-good shot that you know it can, you know, make you score good, then that’s the shot you need to go