One more about Boo Weekley
Boo Weekley acknowledges the crowd after winning the Verizon Heritage.
Boo Weekley didn’t let a surprise penalty get him down Saturday.
BOO WEEKLEY: Right now I’m a little tired, but overall I’m excited how I played.
At the Honda Classic, Boo Weekley missed a three-foot putt that would have given him the victory.
Nasty, chilly weather at the 2007 event forced the tournament to finish on Monday, when Weekley earned his first PGA TOUR victory.
By chipping in on his final two holes, Weekley survived a bogey on No. 16 and took home the Verizon Heritage on Monday, his first PGA Tour victory.
Boo Weekley, a Florida native who is finding his home state not very hospitable, needed only 67 strokes to tour the wind-swept Champion Course at Bay Hill Club & Lodge on Saturday in the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard.
At the Verizon Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links at the Sea Pines Resort in Hilton Head, S.C., Weekly made sure his putter would be an issue.
The sun shone nearly all afternoon and the winds, always prevalent at the Harbour Town Golf Links abutting the Calibogue Sound, weren’t nearly as treacherous.
Tom Johnson, his playing partner, had found the green with his tee shot, but his ball was 85 feet from the hole on the far right side while the hole location was in the back-left.
Q. Usually it’s hard for people to follow a low round with another low round, but you didn’t seem to have any trouble doing that.
“I’ll tell you this: I’ve never heard of that in my 27 years in golf and I mean with caddies, too,” Russell said.
BOO WEEKLEY: Like I said last year and this year, this golf course is similar to the one I grew up on.
17 and 18 to top Ernie Els for the Verizon Heritage title.
Weekley stayed true to his word, not changing personality-wise at all, but conditions and his round certainly looked different.
But I’ve hit the ball pretty well, and I’ve kept it in a place that I know I can score from.
BOO WEEKLEY: I think it was on the Nationwide Tour when we met the first time.
On No. 5, I think we had like 211, 212, something like that to the hole, and I hit 5-iron right in the center of the green.
Then the next one, I was just like, all right, I ain’t even going to worry about it, just get up there and chip it on, two-putt it and make my bogey and go to the next hole and give myself another opportunity.
Since the tournament concluded on Monday in 2007 and only a few souls braved the high winds to watch Weekley win, this was his first experience in front of a large gallery.
Weekley also has now qualified for the Masters, as the tournament has restated a rule inviting Tour winners to play in the year’s first major in Augusta.
Last week at the PODS Championship, Slocum missed a four-foot putt that would have forced a playoff with eventual winner Mark Calcavecchia.
He didn’t find that out until after he had finished his round when PGA TOUR Rules Official Mark Russell had to interrupt what should have been a more pleasant interlude in the scoring trailer.
When Weekley saw that Johnson’s shot might hit the unattended flagstick, he ran and pulled it out of the hole just before the ball arrived.
I don’t know how often that’s happened out here on the Tour for a win, but it was pretty dramatic for me because I thought the first chip, you know, on 17 I was just trying to land it just barely on the fringe and let the wind push it to the hole.
I seen one go in, and you’ve got a par-5 right behind it, and knocked it on in 2 there, and made two good putts there.
By the 10th hole Weekley’s round seemed destined for the record books when he did what he always does at the Verizon Heritage chipped in from the rough.
He said we need to stay focused right here and hit this shot, and one more birdie would do it in.
The thing was just pulling the right club, getting the right club.
I’m very fortunate that I’ve hit the ball well this week.
