John Daly guilty again of sartorial excess (PHOTO)

Golfer John Daly has made a career out of his excesses and he made a splash Tuesday night at the champions’ dinner at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., in advance of this weekend’s PGA Championship at Louisville’s Valhalla Golf Club.

Daly joined 17 past winners of the Wanamaker Trophy at Churchill Downs. See if you can pick him out in the photo below:

This, of course, was the same day he sported these eye-bleeders at the long-drive contest:

Defending champion Jason Dufner set the menu for the dinner, which included “butt rubbed” filet mignon and something called a “gooey ‘cast iron’ brownie” (which sounds amazing).

Daly, of course, earned his invitation to the champions’ dinner with his stirring win at the 1991 PGA Championship at Crooked Stick Golf Club.

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Daly, in the field as the ninth (ninth!) alternate, was a rookie who had missed 11 of 23 cuts during the 1991 PGA Tour season. So of course he went out and gripped-and-ripped his way to a 12-under par 276, beating the field and Crooked Stick itself into submission with his length off the tee and his swashbuckling style.

Now 48, Daly has five PGA Tour wins and three on the European Tour.

He added a second major to his collection in 1995, when he won The Open Championship at historic St. Andrews in Scotland.

Daly has also been honored as the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year in 1991 (a no-brainer after the show he put on at Crooked Stick) and its Comeback Player of the Year in 2004.

His last tour victory, however, was more than a decade ago now, when he won the Buick Invitational in February 2004 in a playoff over Luke Donald and Chris Riley.