John Daly's Recipe For Success

Morley Safer Profiles Colorful Pro Golfer

(CBS)  For now, he’s a single father while his wife serves her time. He’s been traveling the Tour with their 2-year-old son, John Jr., in tow. He's another Daly who grips it and rips it.

Like just about everyone else who has problems, Daly has written a book, titled "In and Out of the Rough."

Safer noted the book is overwhelmingly honest about booze and sex. "Have you pretty much given up all of that bad behavior?" he asked.

"Well, I've never given sex up. I mean, it's been very difficult where my wife is right now. I mean, I got to wait five months. I mean that's, I'm a nympho, I'm not scared to say it," Daly admitted.

And every now and then he reminds the fickle gods of golf of just how good he can be. Last fall, he found himself in a sudden-death playoff with Tiger Woods. But Daly's diehard fans were disappointed yet again when he missed an easy three-foot putt. Even Tiger said it was no way to win.

"You know, I did blow it," Daly admits. "Hopefully I'll have some other opportunities. I'd love to — me and Tiger in a major championship, walking. It'd be a highlight of my life."

After that loss, he flew straight to Vegas, and in less than five hours blew $1.6 million.

"Is it simply that you have no discipline? You respond to whatever whim takes you at a given moment?" Safer asked.

"I'm all feel, just like my golf game. And that's the way I have been with life. But I make so much better decisions on the golf course now, and in life. Having my kids has really, really made me grow up," Daly replied.

"Do the children remind you, in a certain way, that you're not gonna be here forever?" Safer asked.

"I don't think I want to be here forever, Morley. Life's too tough, man," Daly answered.

At age 40, Daly doesn't much resemble the young upstart who stunned the golf world. Even so, the Daly magic, the triumph and the failure, the fallibility and the talent are still there, for all the world to see.