Daly offers support for Woods after mystery crash

Sydney: Golf will suffer if Tiger Woods sustains any long-term damage from the mystery car crash outside his Florida home last week, fellow American professional John Daly said.

Daly, a dual major winner affectionately known as `Wild Thing`, said the sport badly needed Woods and was relieved that the peerless world number one was okay and not badly hurt. "Tiger`s the biggest asset the tour`s had in a long, long time," Daly said ahead of this week`s Australian Open here where he is the leading overseas drawcard."Whatever happened, as long as he`s okay that`s all that matters. Golf needs him badly ... no doubt." Daly, a four-time divorcee and much-publicised hell-raiser, managed to hide his bemusement at discussing someone else`s private life -- and could shed no light on the out-of-character episode."I don`t really care what happened between Tiger and ... whatever happened. I`m just glad he`s okay," he told reporters. "We need him probably more than anybody on the tour to keep things going, the way the economy is." PTI