Boo Weekley thinks the PGA Tour’s wraparound schedule ‘sucks’
Boo Weekley is playing golf in this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship, but he’d much rather be doing something else. So, why isn’t he? If he doesn’t play in the fall portion of the PGA Tour’s wraparound schedule, he’ll fall behind and find himself at a big disadvantage in the FedEx Cup points standings heading into calendar 2016.
For Weekley, that sounds like a raw deal.
“Honestly, this wraparound season sucks,” Weekley said Wednesday at Jackson Country Club in Mississippi. “It does, seriously.”
The golf kind of gets in the way.
“It’s just golf after golf after golf,” Weekley said. “Ain’t no time for hunting and fishing, man. You know, you’ve got to come in here and bring my rods over here to go fishing, but you can’t go fishing because you get out there and next thing you know somebody’s aggravating you, and you can’t actually enjoy going fishing.”
Fair, you say, but Weekley has a weekly opportunity to play golf for a seven-figure first-place check. What’s wrong with that?
Well, nothing, but the FedEx Cup concept essentially dictates that players cannot take extended breaks during the season which never seems to end. There is no offseason, not only complicating vacation plans, but also making it difficult to integrate equipment and swing changes.
However, Weekley doesn’t see it as all bad, helping out the players who have just earned their cards through the Web.com Tour.
“It’s good for the rookies, I think,” he said. “It gives them something they can up can out and get their feet wet before they actually get into the bigger tournament. I think that’s a good thing.”
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