After a night of cards, Weekley hopes for a good night's sleep  PGATOUR.com Contributor HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- Boo Weekley figures an extra night on Hilton Head Island could be a bonus. Final-round play in the Verizon Heritage was postponed until Monday because heavy winds made Harbour Town Golf Links unplayable and conditions unsafe for both players and spectators.  A win would make a solid year spectacular for Boo Weekley. (Michael Cohen/WireImage)
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The wind gusted to 45 mph. Once players turned the corner on the dogleg 16th hole toward Calibogue Sound, conditions became extremely brutal. Justin Leonard, after hitting his ball to the back of the 16th green, had it roll back off the front edge. Hunter Mahan was unable to mark his ball on the green. "Actually, it's going to help me because I didn't get much sleep last night," Weekley said. "We stayed up too late playing cards. I tried to sleep and the air conditioner in the place I was staying was broke, so I had to sleep with the windows open. The storm came through and it got to blowing the shutters around where I was staying at, so I didn't get much sleep. At least tonight I'll get some sleep." Weekley said he and his card-playing buddies would play poker until they got tired of that game, then switch to gin. Asked how much he was down, he said: "You don't want to know. I was playing like a double-down dummy." Weekley, who is back on the PGA TOUR this year for the second time, has been having a solid year. He finished sixth in the Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun, then the next week had an opportunity for his first win but three-putted the 72nd hole and lost in a playoff in The Honda Classic. Weekley is 36th in FedEx Cup points and 39th on the money list. He started Sunday's round in fourth, two shots behind leader Jerry Kelly, said it was the windiest conditions he had seen. "It was pretty tough," said Weekley, who parred the only hole he played. "You've got to kind of keep it low. Once it gets outside the trees, the wind just takes over. You ain't got no control over it. "That's the good thing about the front side. It's kind of closed in. If you hit the ball low like I do, it kind of plays to our advantage." Weekley said he talked with players in the locker room after play was initially suspended at 1:30 p.m. and heard some horror tales about what they would be facing on Harbour Town's closing holes. "Sixteen, 17 and 18, there ain't no way you can keep the ball on the green. It was pretty ridiculous," he said. "They said when you walked up on 18 you'd have to start it out over the water just to keep it in play." Weekley said that didn't worry him too much because he likes to cut the ball, but for those who favored a draw it would be a frightening play. "I can aim it out there and just know I'm going to cut it," he said. "I wouldn't say it's going to give me an advantage, but it is to my favor. You know (players like) me and Joe Durant and a couple of other guys who hit the ball kind of low, keep it in the trees. "The only problem is you've still got some of these holes that have trees protecting around the green," he added. "You hit it low, you've got to worry about hitting it in them." Weekley said he wasn't making any changes in his bag for Monday, when the wind also is forecast to be high and gusty, "unless it's a bazooka and it shoots it straight. That would be about the only thing I'd change. But no, I ain't changing nothing." Except, he's not planning on an all-night card game. Instead, tonight he plans to sleep. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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