March 11th, 2010 by Phil Reich PGA Golf Art

John Daly‘s reality TV show on the Golf Channel debuted this week. But John Daly’s reality remains far more attention-grabbing than any reality show.

Daly is taking fire today because he used his Twitter account to post a newspaper reporter’s cell phone number, to call that reporter a “jerk,” and to urge his followers to call the reporter. Presumably not to wish the reporter a good night and a pleasant tomorrow.

Here’s the chain the events:

• Back in 2005, Daly filed a lawsuit against Morris Publishing, a media company, claiming libel.
• As part of that lawsuit, the PGA Tour was forced to turn over its personnel file on Daly. That file thus became public record.
• Last year, the lawsuit was thrown out, and Daly was ordered to pay Morris’ court fees.
• On Tuesday, Gary Smits, a reporter for the Florida Times-Union – a newspaper owned by Morris Publishing – had an article detailing the contents of that personnel file: 456 pages of transgressions by Daly (more on that in a sec).
• Late Tuesday, Daly posted three tweets that included attacks on the reporter and the reporter’s cell phone number.
• Early Wednesday, Daly removed the tweets.

But the tweets have been saved for posterity by multiple sources, including the Associated Press, which reports this is how they read: Read more…

Discuss: John Daly’s Latest originally appeared on About.com Golf on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 17:38:31.

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