John Daly's Recipe For Success

Morley Safer Profiles Colorful Pro Golfer

(CBS)  Asked how good Daly is and how good he could be, Reilly says, "Oh, first of all, everybody on tour knows, Daly has the best set of hands out there. What he can't do though, is persevere. He can't stick through tough times. Either he's on top and he wins — or if he's going bad, then he's last."

While players like Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods spend hours conditioning themselves, Daly hates to practice. Weight loss, he says, hurts his swing. Twenty Diet Cokes and two packs of cigarettes a day seem to get his heart started.

"I am to a point not very superstitious about things, but every time I drink a bottle of water I make a bogey," he says. "So my body just doesn't, you know, it doesn't want that. ... It's fighting it. 'Hey what's going on, you're putting something healthy in here?'"

Despite his history, Daly is not a poor man. He has turned his "redneck rebel" image into a multimillion-dollar brand. Where other players endorse luxury cars and fancy watches, Daly has a deal with — of course — Hooters. And Hooters patrons line up to meet one of their own. Most agree he attracts a whole new crowd to the royal and ancient game.

"He even has the NASCAR-style trailer at tournaments where they sell his hats and shirts and sweaters," says Reilly. "He's bringing NASCAR to golf. Has there ever been a match made in hell like Daly and Hooters? I love it."

Love is a problem for Daly. But his turbulent love life has given him ample material for his other side — the country music singer.

Daly released a CD of songs that detail his turbulent love life, including that ode to lost love, "All My Exes Wear Rolexes."

Why do so many women find him so attractive?

"I think women have this Red Cross thing in them," says Reilly. "They think they're gonna save him, you know? He's kind of a human hurricane. We can calm you down. We can take care of you. Because he really is lovable."

Daly's fourth wife Sherrie served five months in prison for laundering money for a drug and gambling ring. Daly was not involved. Then just last week, Sherrie was accused by Daly of attacking him with a steak knife.

Asked why he is so unlucky in love, Daly tells Safer, "I don't know, I think it’s a two-way street, it's fifty-fifty. It's a tough life. It's not as glamorous as people think it is. It's a lot of traveling. Tons of traveling."

"But there's a lot of temptations as you say, on the tour. A lot of groupies, correct?" Safer asked.

"Just tons of temptations in life, period," Daly replied.

Asked if his current marriage is for keeps, Daly says, "Oh, we take it day by day, you know? It's been a rocky road. But we've hung in there."