Steve Orme at Coolum, Sportal
The man formerly known as 'The Wild Thing' has offered to help besieged world No.1 Tiger Woods weather the storm of controversy and innuendo surrounding his private life, insisting there is no one more qualified to deal with his current predicament.
Speaking immediately after his third round at the Australian PGA Championship at Coolum, reformed bad boy John Daly revealed he has attempted to contact Woods in a bid to steer his good friend through the darkest period of his public life.
Himself a veteran of four marriage bust ups and countless off-course misdemeanours, Daly, whose attempts to contact his good friend have so far been in vein, delivered a heart-felt message of love and support for both Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren.
But while Daly endorsed Woods' decision to take an 'indefinite break' from golf in an attempt to save his marriage amid claims of serial infidelity, he questioned his public handling of the matter insisting he should have come clean sooner.
"My advice to him last week was I wish he would have came out a lot earlier and just told the truth and got it all out on the table and made the other so-called women that are coming out, whether it's true or not, to kind of maybe sit back and not say anything," Daly said.
"If he would have come out and made the statements a lot earlier I think it would have been much easier. I don't think it would have been the jokes you see on the web, the craziness of how people can be so brutal to somebody."
"I've tried to get a hold of Tiger and his manager (Mark Steinberg) and he just didn't want to talk to anybody. I feel like if there's anybody in this world with what I've gone through who could maybe ... give him some advice."
"It's tough and it's going to be tough on him but if I was him and Elin, I would go to Oprah, get on a show, get this thing aired out, tell the truth. And then it doesn't matter what the media says anymore because it's all out in the open and it would be a big sigh of relief for both of them."
While he hopes the pair can save their marriage, the big-hearted 43-year-old urged them to only stay together for the right reasons.
"I hope that they're staying together for the love that they have for each other," he said.
"Elin, she's gone through hell, but I pray and hope that they both can get through it."
"I'm for them, if they ever need anything from me - both of them - I'll be more than happy for them because I love them both."
Meanwhile, Daly expressed disappointment over the comments of some US PGA Tour players in the wake of the Woods controversy, but claimed golf fans would forgive him in time.
"I'm in shock over it all and I think a lot of our players are in shock," he said.
"I'm not happy with the way some of our players have responded to what has happened and I just think that's kind of their only way of getting back because they know they can't beat him in the game of golf."
"He was put on a pedestal as being non-human and every time I look at Tiger and see him as a 13-year-old child when I first met him ... he's just a little kid to me."
"He's definitely screwed up and I wish his statement would have been a lot earlier. I just
hope and pray the best for Elin and those kids and that he gets through it."
Australia's highest ranked golfer Geoff Ogilvy said on Woods' decision to take an 'indefinite' hiatus: "I didn't expect that actually so, he's obviously got some stuff to sort through."
"Indefinite is a scary word. Just the definition of the word is scary if Tiger Woods indefinitely doesn't play golf that's not good for us but I'm sure he'll get it worked out."