Andrew “Beef” Johnston (left) and John Daly (proper) had an epic first encounter a number of years again.
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The 2024 professional golf season noticed the resurgence of fan favourite Andrew “Beef” Johnston, and we’re all higher off for it. Look no additional than a latest interview with the DP World Tour, the place Beef shared an epic story of attempting to out-drink golf (and consuming) legend John Daly.
Johnston burst on the scene in 2016, when his first win on the Open de Espana set off a streak of sizzling play, resulting in his first PGA Tour card in 2017. The Englishman rapidly ingratiated himself with golf followers because of his simple humor and likable persona.
A mixture of accidents and poor play dropped Beef from the general public’s consciousness for a number of years, however 2024 noticed him re-enter the highest 100 within the Race to Dubai rankings. He earned his finest end in a very long time on the Omega European Masters in July, the place he completed in solo third.
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On Tuesday, the DP World Tour launched a prolonged interview with Johnston on YouTube as a part of their “Life on Tour” collection with hosts George Harper Jr. and John E. Morgan.
And on the very finish of the sit-down, Beef obtained to the great things. When requested if he had any good Daly tales to share, he provided up one for the ages.
The incident came about a number of years again on the Turkish Airways Open, the place Beef encountered Daly for the primary time. After Sunday’s remaining spherical, the 2 larger-than-life golfers met up for a beer, and it rapidly became a critical consuming exhibition, as Johnston associated within the interview.
“We obtained a chat in and I used to be having a beer, and he was like, ‘we’ll get a bucket of those beers.’ And he was clearly straight on whisky,” Johnston shared. “And he was like ‘look, return to the lodge and are available meet me and we’ll keep on.’”
It’s when the 2 professional golfers met again up later that the journey began to go off the rails, thanks largely to the complete glasses of whiskey Daly was ordering for them.
“I keep in mind sitting there… and he ordered like two giant whiskeys. And he’s obtained the can of coke on the facet. Because the waiter put them down, [Daly] went, ‘can we order two extra?’”
A shocked Johnston replied, “Mate, they’ve simply come!”
Attempting to maintain up with Daly finally obtained one of the best of Beef.
“Subsequent factor, I’m in my pants, and I’m shaking a tree, after which I’m leaping within the pool, and I’m like, ‘he appears OK! I’m not, he appears OK!’” Beef defined.
“And I get up and I used to be like ‘what occurred?’ And my missus on the time was like, ‘yea you stripped right down to your pants, and also you have been shaking this bush for some cause, and also you kinda jumped within the pool.’”
When Beef requested about what occurred to Daly, he was informed, unsurprisingly, that he was effective and had simply walked again to his lodge on the finish of the evening.
You possibly can try Johnston’s full interview with the DP World Tour under.
