John Daly Gets His Own Cigar Line

While many golfers are known to smoke cigars on the course, John Daly is known for enjoying cigarettes while golfing. Perhaps his smoking preference will change now that there are two cigar blends with his name on them.

Daly, who won the PGA Championship in 1991 and The Open in 1995, has partnered with San Giuseppe Cigars for two new lines of cigars that will begin shipping next month.

There is The Wild One Short Game, a 4 1/4 x 50 short robusto, that uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a Dominican binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Pennsylvania.

It has an MSRP of $12.50 per cigar and is sold in boxes of 20 cigars.

Interestingly, Daly came up with the Short Game part of the name—a golf term—while speaking with Kid Rock. According to Jaysen Messina, vice president of San Giuseppe Cigars, Daly called the musician and asked him what his favorite cigar was; he replied, “Arturo Fuente Short Story.” Inspired by that name, Daly decided to call his cigar Short Game, though it also includes The Wild One, one of Daly’s many nicknames.

The other release incorporates a different Daly nickname; it’s called The Lion Long Game. That cigar measures 6 1/4 x 52 and uses an Ecuadorian habano 2000 wrapper over an Ecuadorian binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Ecuador.

It has an MSRP of $22.50 per cigar and is offered in boxes of 10 cigars, though Messina said the company would offer retailers the opportunity to purchase bundle refills which should reduce the cost of the cigars.

For the launch, both cigars are offered in 300 numbered boxes, which will be sold through San Giuseppe’s website as well as retailers. Those boxes also include a realistic-looking signature, though the signature is printed on as Daly did not sign the boxes. After the first 300 boxes are sold, future cigars will come in boxes that are not numbered.

The cigars are made in the Dominican Republic at an undisclosed factory, though Messina says the company has an ownership stake in that factory.

Joseph Bonanno founded San Giuseppe in 2021. The company sells cigars under the San Giuseppe and has licensing deals with professional athletes, which are sold under the Major League Cigars name. The first of those cigars was released last August, a partnership with José Reyes, the retired MLB All-Star third basemen. The company then added a cigar produced in partnership with Fergie Jenkins, a former Cy Young award winner and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.

The John Daly Collection cigars will begin shipping in mid-May.