Boo Weekley chipped in for pars on the 17th and 18th holes in Monday’s delayed final round of the Verizon Heritage to win his first PGA Tour event and earn a trip to the 2008 Masters. Weekley, who missed a short putt last month at the Honda Classic and lost in a Monday playoff to Mark Wilson, came out of the pack to shoot a three under par 68 to beat Ernie Els by one stroke. High winds at Harbor Town on Sunday forced cancellation of the final round on Sunday. Els, who bogeyed the 17th hole when he hit is tee shot in a hazard, hit a miracle shot on the 18th hole that nearly forced a playoff. Els was 150 yards from the final green and needed to hole out to tie Weekley. With strong winds blowing off the sound, Els hit a shot that covered the flag and stopped one foot away from the hole. Weekley, the tobacco chewing redneck from the Florida panhandle, becomes the first beneficiary of the new rule imposed by the Masters to invite all PGA Tour tournament winners to prestigious tournament. The question will be whether Boo dares spit his chewing tobacco on the hallowed grounds of Augusta National.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Kenny Knox.
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- Mr. Fairway’s love affair with the game of golf began in junior high. He once made his living as a journalist covering high school sports, cops and robbers and politics. Today, Mr. Fairway is a public relations consultant and a widely-published freelance golf writer. His current USGA handicap index is 9.3 and he averages 50-plus rounds a year.