Date Written: April 21, 2008
Boo "The Chew" Weekley repeats at The Heritage. This is a tough thing to do, having only been done twice before by Mssrs. Payne Stewart and DL III. Mr. Boo, looks just like a compilation of the guys I used to play with in the fifty's at Rancho Park in L.A. (read Rick Reilly's masterpiece, "Missing Links" for a sense of the characters I grew up with.) Occasionally wearing army surplus pants, an oversized shirt that's definitely not on any color chart and what looks like old-style tennis shoes, Boo has set fashion back to the dark ages. Add a big wad of chew oozing sticking through his cheek and dribbling down his chin, a limited, good-ole-boy vocabulary and a strong left hand grip, and Boo will never be mistaken for the a player from the country club set. But unbeknownst to the golfing population at large, our loveable, homegrown Florida Panhandle hustler has figured out how to repeat his dippy, "shut" muni swing and beat-up on the Polo-wearing set. The truth is he has more of arrows in his quiver than most of his stuffy peers. He was mostly straight off the tee which killed half the competition. Then, he unveiled a low punch shot that he could deftly move left or right under the tall, moss-hanging trees that guarded greens as small as postage stamps. In truth, he was a tad bit lucky...chipping in twice from awkward spots on the last day to maintain his comfortable lead. But, as it turned out, he was never threatened...ahead all day long. Remember last year when he chipped in twice on the last two holes to squeek by Big Ernie? He ought to think about building another house on the course or at least buying a power boat to host a beer cruise every year in good Carolina coastal fashion.
Boating aside, Boo "The Chew" makes "Pat M." and "The Donald" almost millionaires for their heady pick of him to repeat. "The Donald" (last year's pool winner), jumps from 9th to 4th in the standings and Pat closes the gap on his associate, Scott Winegar. Artie, Monte Train and Bob Lutz hustled up the standings with a T-2 on the back of "The Aaron of Baddeley." They added nearly half mil to their totals. In my next life, I don't care how many winners I can pick, I just want to putt like Badds.
The Tour schleps back to Texas this coming week. Seven Donald's, five Sabbo's and three Campbell's are the consensus picks at the EDS-Byron Nelson at the TPC in Irving. T&A and Doc 'N Jill think the Yiddish pro, Scott Verplunked, will repeat.
Stating the obvious, yours truly, has been in a holding pattern for the entire season...DEAD LAST! "Steady as a Cropper" I've been for weeks now. Y'all remember the dreaded Cropper Bros? I used to make fun of them on a weekly basis when they were mired miles behind the pack. Oh well! My current standing is probably just cosmic pay-back for my years of witless sarcasm aimed at the them.
P.S. In the "Miracles Can Happen" category, I did learn one thing from Peter Kostis' "Konica Bizhub Swing Analysis" feature. But I'm not going to tell you in case we meet in the semi's of the club championship.
P.P.S. Anyone see Jeff Wong's name on the leader board this past week?
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