Is John Daly set to carve out a TV career?

Ever wondered how a golfer fills his or her day when they’re not on the course or practice ground? Well, now you can find out, courtesy of reformed ‘wild thing’ John Daly and his upcoming ESPN Golf Channel reality show.

Daly has previously been on TV in a similar format, and in 2006 The Golf Channel broadcast a 13-part series of ‘The Daly Planet’ which featured Daly’s wild-living antics. The new show is as yet untitled but it is likely to be shown in early 2010.

Instead of focussing on Daly’s wild lifestyle, which apparently no longer exists, the show will instead follow the now-mundane life of the reformed golfer as he turns his life around. Daly has previously twice attended alcohol rehabilitation, been three times married and amassed huge gambling debts during a rollercoaster career since he burst into the public eye in 1991 when he won the US PGA as a qualifier. He has also just returned to the PGA Tour following a six month suspension.

Daly, who had a gastric band fitted in order to help him shed weight now takes his golfing career very seriously and his attempts to recapture former glories has seen the American rack up some consistent finishes since his return to the tour, while he has lost 81lbs since February.

However, despite his more mundane lifestyle, the same cannot be said about his current choice of on-course attire which features colourful trousers, shirts and pullovers. His girlfriend is also getting in on the act and at the British Open at Turnberry, BBC cameras featured her on more than one occasion sporting matching attire to the outfits of her man as she followed him around the course.

On the day before Daly competed in the first round of the Buick Open, a TV crew planned to follow him as he recorded a song he wrote at Kid Rock’s studio and also while he performed mundane tasks such as ironing the colourful attire he would wear at Warwick Hills.

Daly has mentioned on his Twitter feed that he likes the name ‘Out of the Rough’ for his new show, while there is a photoshop contest available at gunaxin.com where photoshop comedians are tasked with creating a picture of John Daly’s new show from any image of the ‘wild thing’.