"I’m like Lazarus, I keep coming back from the dead," the golfer told the Associated Press this week, days after finishing dead-last at a Texas tournament

“I’m like Lazarus — I keep coming back from the dead,” Daly said. “Waking up is a win for me.” Daly is still determined to play on the senior PGA Tour Champions circuit, even skipping next week’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow to play on PGA Tour Champions’ first major of the year, The Tradition in Birmingham, Ala.

JOHN Daly will miss next week’s PGA Championship as he recovers from his sixteenth surgery. The 59-year-old was hospitalised after a health scare in January where he had to have emergency