Get to know Boo Weekley Ryder Cup
The inimitable Boo Weekley talks to Eurosport-Yahoo.’s Will Tidey ahead of his Ryder Cup debut for the United States at Valhalla on Friday.
KELLY ELBIN: Boo Weekley, ladies and gentlemen, joining us at the 37th Ryder Cup.
It is a shame for Boo that the Ryder Cup will not be played at Harbour Town.
Thomas Brent “Boo” Weekley is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
Westwood said he had no problem with the duo doing it-just not when he or Hanson had shots to play.
Westwood said he had no problem with the duo doing it — just not when he or Hanson had shots to play.
The American rookies won the crucial first match out in the afternoon, 2&1, to end Westwood’s 12-match unbeaten Ryder Cup run.
Weekley’s good form at the start of the 2007 season included two top 10 finishes before his victory, after which he reached a new career high of 55 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
It’s just a new tournament, and we’re all here to represent our country and we’re going to play the best that we can play and go out there and win.
The 35-year-old from Florida made his PGA Tour breakthrough by winning the Verizon Heritage in 2007 and retained the trophy this season.
Boo, welcome to Valhalla, and it sounds like you had a fun day on the golf course with some Kentucky guys, right.
“I’m a ‘What you see is what you get kind of guy’,” he said and judging by the American’s cult status in the world game it’s an approach that has endeared him wherever he’s been.
Weekley posted a 2-0-1 record at the 2008 Ryder Cup, including a 4&2 victory over Oliver Wilson in Singles play.
There’s plenty of whoopin’ and hollerin’ from Weekley and his Kentucky homeboy partner J.B. Holmes, but thankfully no chair-chucking or flesh-flashing.
Despite a fine season on the US Tour, in which the 35-year-old Florida native retained his Verizon Heritage title at Hilton Head in South Carolina, Weekley is expected to miss out on the opening round of matches in Louisville, Kentucky, and may even have to wait for the singles to make an impression.
He hit the pin-seeking shot of their match-a middle iron from down in a hollow by the creek that flows alongside the 15th.
The straight-talking Southerner, who famously said he’d rather be fishing than playing at this year’s Masters and called Augusta “just another golf course”, qualified in the eighth and final automatic spot for Paul Azinger’s United States team and can’t wait to bring his unique charm to golf’s biggest stage.
“Golf is supposed to be a gentleman’s game, and that is what separates it from all other sports,” Westwood said.
The Americans have taken a good hammering the last couple of times, and they had to try something [this year].
He had clearly taken to heart Westwood’s gripe, and throughout Saturday’s fourball the self-proclaimed redneck showed he’d brushed up on his etiquette.
It was a Boo zoo behind the 17th as Paul Azinger stormed the green to hug Weekley and Holmes after their win, the captain’s upturned collar making him look like Elvis.
“At least wait until you’re walking up to the green or walking off the green,” Westwood said at Friday’s press conference.
BOO WEEKLEY: He hasn’t mentioned nothing to me, and the way my game sets up, it really don’t matter to me what I play.
The Englishman was fuming Friday at Weekley’s lack of decorum, complaining that the timing of all those “raise the roof” gestures to the galleries was not in the spirit of the game.
If he does play in the fourballs or foursomes, Weekley cares little as the identity of his partner or opposition.
I just hope I can continue to hit the ball the way I have been.
— Boo Weekley has turned the 37th Ryder Cup into The Jerry Springer Show.
He can play this game, which gets lost amid the hullabaloo about “desperate” ruckus-raising.
The Boo boos that welcomed Weekley after Career Shot No. 9 turned the 15th green amphitheater into a Springsteen gig.
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