"They always say it takes a man to wear pink."

Mark Reason on John Daly taking the BMW by storm...or at least drawing crowds.

Back home, Daly is a pariah. Tim Finchem, the PGA Tour commissioner, said at the start of 2008: "There are certain things about presentation that are not going to be tolerated." It was hard not to think that those words were aimed at Daly. As soon as the big man stepped out of line – the tour obviously didn't think an orange prison jump suit lived up to their ideal of presentation – he was banned for six months.

But Daly has found a huge welcome in Europe during this period of exile. Yesterday he was asked if he had made any particular friendships in his time over here. Daly just smiled and said in that laconic drawl: "I'm like Jesus, I love all of you." How can you not like a man like that? And how can you not like a man who continues to entertain even when he's not quite sure where the ball is going? Daly holed out three times from off the green in his second round. The roar when he chipped in on 17 nearly turned his hair white.

After his round, the wild thing kept saying he had also holed a chip on 13 when it was in fact the 11th. He never was a man for detail, but he's always been a man of flair. Or is that flares? The trousers he had on yesterday were low key by his standards, though there was a fan in the crowd with a pair of the orange and pink Harlequins pants Daly wore in Spain.

Daly has something altogether more vibrant planned for today and tomorrow. "Saturday will be a kind of flowery type and I've got a solid pair for Sunday, bright pink pair Sunday," he said. "They always say it takes a man to wear pink."