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Weekley secures Masters spot
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Boo Weekley watches his tee shot from the 13th hole during the final round of the Verizon Heritage golf tournament at Harbour Town Golf Links at Hilton Head Island, S.C., Monday. Weekley won the tournament.
BY PETE IACOBELLI ASSOCIATED PRESS
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.
— Augusta National, get ready for
Boo Weekley.
Now, after his first PGA Tour victory at the Verizon Heritage on Monday, Weekley's got a spot in next year's Masters.
Perhaps one no fits the mold of the staid, in-control PGA Taur pro less than Weekley, the 33-year-old country boy from the Florida Panhandle. He punctuates answers with "reckon" and "aint," and one time, in Texas, got so angry with his play, he put a hole in his golf bag with a club.
"I don't think the plaid's going to fit," said Weekley, picking at his tartan winner's coat. "I'd like to have a green one to go along with."
Weekley got that chance with a pair of dramatic, par-saving chips on the 17th and 18th holes.
Along with $972,000 and a PGA Tour exemption through 2008, Weekley becomes the first PGA Tour winner to qualify for next year's Masters after Augusta National chairman Billy Payne restored a privilege taken away in 1999.
Weekley had gained the sympathy of golfers everywhere last month when he missed a three-footer on the 72nd hole of the Honda Classic that would've given him the outright victory. Instead, the 33-year-old Weekley fell into a four-man playoff eventually won by Mark Wilson.
Weekley got it done this time.
He nearly squandered a three-shot lead at Harbour Town Golf Links before his heart-stopping finish.
Weekley made bogey on the 16th, then muffed a chip behind the 17th green. He followed the blunder with a 40-foot, par-saving chip to keep a one-stroke lead.
But then Weekley had his troubles on Harbour Town's lighthouse hole, No. 18. He chipped across the green and into the fluffy rough down a short slope. Once again, Weekley's short game saved him, this time rolling it from 36 feet away.
Weekley never thought about his
Honda gaffe from last month, confident his time in the spotlight would come.
When his first chip fell, Weekley thought "this could be my day." He knew it about 15 minutes later when he repeated the feat to close out the victory.
"Unreal." Weekley said. "This is unreal."
The Big Easy, bidding for his
first tour victory since 2004, lost his chance on No. 17, driving into the hazard behind the green for a bogey. Els made things interesting, though, putting his second shot — and last opportunity to
tie — at the 18th inside two feet.
Masters champion Zach Johnson continued his inspired play a week after slipping on the green jacket with a 71 to finish sixth.
Difficulties with the weather Sunday forced the tournament to finish Monday.
"Right now, it feels good. It ain't all sunk in yet."
"I don't think I want to see this replay." Els said, smiling.
The Verizon Heritage probably has never had a champion like Weekley, whose nickname comes from Yogi Bear's sidekick, Boo Boo. Weekley
Weekley finished with a 68 and was one in front of Els (70) and two ahead of Stephen Leaney (68).
played golf for a year or so at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Ga., until it did away with the golf program.
BOO WEEKLEY
PGA golfer
mind the Sunday delay until Monday because he had stayed up too late Saturday playing cards. Weekley's preparation for the final round last night? "Ate about a handful of jelly beans and called it quits," he said.
He didn't
Els had opened the tournament with two 65s and appeared ready to pick up his first tour victory since 2004. Still, it's his seventh top-10 finish here in nine visits to Harbour Town.
Jerry Kelly, who used a hole-in-one Saturday to take the third-round lead, was still two shots in front at 15 under after an eagle on the par-5 second. His chance to end a nearly five-year-old victory drought slipped away when he drove into the water on No. 10. He finished with a 77.
Winds, though not as fierce as Sunday, continued to whip off Calibogue Sound, tilting flagsticks on Harbour Town's three closing holes when play resumed at 8 a.m.
Weekley had his troubles with the conditions, too, just less than his competitors. Now that he's a PGA Tour champion, Weekley expects to be the same fun-loving golfer who's spent the past four seasons on the Nationwide Tour.
"I ain't going to change," he said, grinning. "I ain't got no reason to."
BULLFIGHTING
BY MARK STEVENSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — A 14-year-old matador who left Spain to escape his home country's ban on young bullfighters was nearly gored to death in a Mexican ring, his lung punctured by a 900-pound bull.
Jairo Miguel, who has been bullfighting professionally in Mexico for about the past two years, was fighting at the Aguascalientes. Monumental
Aguascaliente Bull Ring on Sunday when a bull named Hidrocalido rushed him at top speed and lifted him in the air, appearing to carry him several yards with one horn firmly lodged in his thorax.
But in Mexico, some start as young as 12 or 13, and there appears to be a rush toward ever-younger fighters who have become a growing attraction in Latin America.
official from the Royal Bullfighting Federation of Spain.
In his two years in the Mexican ring, Jairo has scored some victories that earned him the right to cut off the defeated bulls' ears. But he has also been trampled and knocked around.
"Normally, it's the parents of these children — and they are children — who put them into bullfighting schools."
"I'm dying, Dad, I'm dying," government news agency Notimex quoted jairo as saying immediately after the goring.
"These are injuries that happen. He's a great bullfighter," Hernandez Sanchez said.
Dr. Carlos Hernandez Sanchez said Jairo was the youngest gougst victim he had ever treated. But he does not think he was too young to be in the ring.
INAKI NEGRETE Bullfighting spokesman
In Spain, an aspiring "torero" must be at least 16 to begin training with small bulls but is not allowed to kill a bull in the ring before he or she is 18, said an
Jairo's father, Antonio Sanchez Caceres, is also a well-known bullfigher who came with him to Mexico from Spain and was reportedly at the ring on Sunday when his son was injured.
Jairo was billed as the youngest matador in the world when he came to Mexico almost two years ago at age 12, apparently to escape Spain's ban on bullfighters younger than 16.
Dr. Luis Romero, the surgeon who operated on Jairo at Aguascalientes' Guadalupe Clinic, said the bull's horn brushed his aorta and came about an inch from his heart.
somebody who has been gored by a bull lucky," he said.
"He was lucky, if you can call
If the four-inch gash had been one inch closer to the heart, "this surely would have been a catastrophe where it would have been very difficult to control" the bleeding.
Jairo was connected to a respirator on Monday but doctors were confident they could restore much of his lung function and expected him to recover.
Juan Carlos Lopez, the manager of the Aguascalientes ring, said there have been even younger fighters in the ring there, but he would not give their ages.
Inaki Negrete, of the Mexican Association of Fighting Bull Breeders, said the responsibility for young bull fighters rests largely with their families, who are often the ones who encourage their sons to go into bullfighting in the first place.
"Normally, it's the parents of these children — and they are children — who put them into bullfighting schools," Negre said.
CHIEFS
Shields announces retirement from NFL on Web site
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Veteran John Welbourn, who filled in at right tackle last year with mixed results, will probably take over for 12-Pro Bowl right guard Will Shields, Kansas City Chiefs President Carl Peterson said Monday.
"We've already made preparations for this by acquiring some talented
His retirement was not unexpected, but will no doubt leave a hole in what had been for many years one of the NFL's finest blocking units.
BY DOUG TUCKER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shields, 35, announced on his Web site Sunday that he was stepping down after an illustrious 14-year career in which he made 231 consecutive starts, counting playoff games, and tied the NFL record for most Pro Bowl selections.
veterans as well as younger offensive linemen," Peterson said. "I would say without question, nobody's going to fill those shoes. Nobody's going to be quite as good as Will Shields. That would be very, very difficult."
Through his "Will to Succeed Foundation," Shields has made many charitable contributions while working behind the scenes on behalf of community projects.
"You're not going to miss the off-season program," Peterson said he told Shields. "You're not going to miss training camp. But when that first Sunday rolls around, you're gong to miss it. You will miss it because it's been such an integral part of your persona for all these years. It's like a metabolic clock going off in your body. It's tough."
Peterson said he had a long conversation with him Monday morning and they talked about Shields maintaining some connection with the club.
Neither Peterson nor anyone else with the Chiefs knew for sure that Shields had decided to step away until it appeared on his Web site.
"The decision to hang up my cleats has not been an easy one to make for me, but one I knew I would eventually have to make," Shields wrote. "Today, I am letting everyone know that I am putting away my pads."
Shields, who strongly contemplated stepping down after the 2005 season, wrote on his site that the physical requirements of the game had become more difficult with each passing day.
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