NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 After hanging out with a who’s who of Music City at Losers for years, golf superstar John Daly celebrated the opening day of sought-after sequel “Happy Gilmore 2” by hosting a movie premier party at his new bar, “John Daly’s Nashville.”<\/p>\n
“It’s a friendly competition,” with the other bar owners in Midtown Nashville, Daly tells FOX17 News\u2019 Johnny Maffei in an exclusive sit-down during his official grand opening.<\/p>\n
Maffei: \u201cWhat are you best known for these days?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daly: \u201cI\u2019m not sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daly is proud to contribute to the up-and-comers on the live music scene, saying he \u201cstarted coming (to Nashville) because when I was trying to make it on the (PGA) tour I was living in a van. I didn\u2019t have the money to travel, so I was basically living in a van. You basically watch all these people come here that are great singers. I\u2019ve always said Nashville and these bars are the Korn Ferry Tour of the PGA Tour, they\u2019re absolutely amazing, they just gotta get that one more step. I feel for \u2018em, I bleed with \u2018em.\u201d<\/p>\n
Partnering up with Daly is businessman Fred Barnett, who appreciates the gravity of opening a bar in Music City. \u201cIn the industry, we always felt like Nashville was the big game, that\u2019s the Super Bowl, if you can get a bar in Nashville and you can make that work, you can do a bar anywhere at that point. And so we had a lot of success in Texas, and so we felt like if we got the right person, Nashville would work, and I have no complaints, I think everybody knows we got the right person here (in Daly),\u201d Barnett tells Maffei.<\/p>\n
John Daly\u2019s Nashville is on Division St next to Losers. See the full conversation with Daly below:<\/p>\n