The 2008 PGA Tour opens today with the Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii. Tournament winners from last year will play the limited field event on the Plantation Course at the Kapalua resort on the island of Maui.
As usual Tiger Woods (who hasn’t played this event since 2001) and Phil Mickelson are skipping the event, preferring to start their season at the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines in San Diego January 24-27. Also skipping the event are British Open champion Padraig Harrington and Adam Scott, who ranked seventh in the world standings.
Boo Weekley, who qualified for his first Mercedes-Benz Championship with his victory at the Verizon Heritage, almost didn’t make it to Hawaii after airport security discovered two bullets from a rifle in his carry-on bag. Weekley had taken a hunting trip in the off-season and didn’t see them when he packed for Maui. “I had the cops there (at the airport),” he said. “I thought I was going to jail.” Looks like our boy Boo is off to another entertaining season.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Tommy Jacobs.
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