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This the maybe the funniest thing you'll see in golf this year: John Daly hitting a golf ball off a tee placed in David Feherty's mouth.

It was the physical highlight of another good Feherty interview with a golf personality, this one with the resurgent Daly in a show that debuted Monday night. Rest assured, Golf Channel will be re-running it all the way up until the series resumes next season (the Daly interview as the last for this season's run).

I crack up just hearing Feherty, in answer to a producer or cameraman saying, "Let's not do anything stupid," with his Irish-tinged "It's not stupid. Trust me, he's a pro."

Yeah, well, Daly's been a pro since 1987, but let's not think it's all been Jack Nicklaus all these years.

Fortunate (spoiler alert!), all went well for Feherty and his skull.

The pair taped this show in Dardanelle at Daly's Lions Den club a couple of months back when Feherty also visited the Clinton Presidential Center for a sit-down with former President Bill Clinton that turned out to be not as much a interview about golf as it was a talk about the world in general. I was hoping Clinton would show Feherty the putting green he's reportedly installed on top of the presidential library outside his apartment.

Feherty's timing with his interviews has been remarkably prescient. His Bubba Watson sitdown came the week of the Masters Tournament, which Watson incredibly won with his miraculous 60-yard bender through the trees and onto the 10th green in a playoff with Louis Oosthuizen.

Daly was playing better than he had when Feherty arrived in Dardanelle, but the one-time "Grip It and Rip It" wunderkind has continued on to shine during the summer. He's having his best season since 2005. Used to, Daly might make two cuts and miss a couple dozen each year, it seemed. And of course, there would be some incident to bring more bad press on Daly, such as having a 16 on a single hole or walking off the course.

This year, he's flipped that with just two missed cuts and no embarrasing moments. He might actually turn out to be a factor on the Senior Tour in a few years.

Some might have thought Daly wouldn't be around to make the Senior Tour, Feherty being one of them, he said on this week's show.

There's more of the interview that didn't make the show here. "Feherty" will be shown on Golf Channel Saturday at 9 a.m. and again at 10 a.m. (CDT).