CBS rejects beer-soaked John Daly golf ad

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It’s rare that a golf commercial is turned down by a major network for being too wild. Naturally, this one, for Maxfli golf balls, involves John Daly. He’s shown singing in a honky-tonk bar, bringing beer to a golf course, using a beer can as a tee, and driving erratically in a golf cart. For Daly, this may be a tradition unlike any other, but CBS has refused to air the ad. Apparently those three visits to the Betty Ford Clinic for alcohol abuse did not help Daly much.

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