Boo Weekley to write Boo-ography
Boo Weekley, God bless him, is writing a book. A Boo-ography, if you will. I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard this. You might as well have told me Tiger Woods is retiring or Donald Trump shaved his head. I mean, Boo, the author? That’s like Keanu, the actor. Boo broke the news yesterday at Tiger’s Chevron World Challenge.
“We just trying to start out — we are trying to start it out and just trying to — of how I got into golf, you know, and what my past has been like and the things that I've come about and the thing that I've overcome, just different things like that. It's just mostly about golf, right now until we find a publisher and then I started throwing some other stuff in there.”
Other stuff? Like what? Pig Hunting 101? How to Sauté Squirrel? The Joy of Pabst?
I’m not hating on Boo. I’m actually quite fond of the guy. In fact, he and his ghostwriter (“I think his name’s Paul Brown out of Jackson, Mississippi,” Boo ventured) might just be on to something. Weekley is one of the Tour’s most captivating players, not so much for his Southern-fried eccentricities (although those ain't never get old), but because unlike just about every other player in the game’s elite ranks, he doesn’t tie himself in knots.
“The Lord has blessed me to be able to come and [play golf], and it ain't my first true love. I think that's the reason why that I play the game as well as I do, or am as fortunate as I am to play it. Because I look at it as, what's the worst thing that can happen? If I miss the cut, hell, that just gives me two days to go fishing, you know what I mean?”
That’s genius stuff. Boo will never be great like Tiger or Phil. He’s more an easy-going, middle-management guy — happy with his lot, and not fueled by the fantasy of landing that corner office. Especially when there’s far more important prizes to bag, like a 12-point buck.
“I bring everything I do on the golf course is something that's happened to me in the woods,” Weekley explained yesterday, perhaps previewing the kind of inimitable insights that will fill his book. “That's how my focus is and what I'm thinking about, not just like a different shot. This is a shot right here, I've got to hit this cut shot. Well, if I shoot this bow, if I'm shooting my bow, I have to slide it right through this window; is that what I want to do, or do I want to try to wait for my opportunities later on the next hole?”
Yikes. Somebody call CliffsNotes.
