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Jerry Jones on John Daly: 'I like the way he does life'

Published Sep. 1, 2015 3:04 p.m. ET

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Pro golfer John Daly has amassed quite the fan following in recent months, and you can count Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones as one of them. Jones appreciates that Daly has been through adversity and bounced back. It also doesn't hurt that Daly is a fellow University of Arkansas attendee and an open Cowboys fan.

“I guess it’s just obvious when you’ve been down and out seemingly as many times as John has been, then you just become endeared to your fans,” Jones said in a KRLD interview, per Golf Digest. “And that’s happened with John. And we all know no one’s had more foibles or demonstrated more foibles than John. And so that’s easy for me to identify with John. On the other hand I guess it’s from that Dardanelle [Ark.] background in him that is really appealing to me as well. I like the way he plays the game, I like the way he does life.”

Jones even provided a few not-so-technical details on Daly's golf swing. Jones is not a golf maven, but he found a metaphorical way to equate Daly's stroke to his life.

“I think his swing … it’s indicative of what John is about. That thing, when he draws back and hits it, he curls all the way around and he’s got that big old belly, he goes completely around and that golf club seems to touch the other toe and he just unwinds and hits that little old ball on the other side of that 360-degree arc,” Jones said. “Now that’s impossible to do almost. He does it almost every time. But imagine the leverage. And that’s the way he hits life, I think.”

(h/t Golf Digest)