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The Dale Jr. Download
Boo Weekley: Golf's Most Relatable Guy, Fighting an Orangutan & Beer Buddies With Dale
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. reunites with an old friend from a different world, longtime PGA competitor Boo Weekley. For those who don’t know Boo, he’s a world-class storyteller and one hell of a golfer. If you don’t know Boo, you’ll be a fan of his after this episode. From his legendary porta-potty story to the time he once fought an orangutan, it’s safe to say you’ll be entertained during this one.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Hey, Dale.
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Boo Weekley
Yo.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.
What are we doing for lunch today? I'm getting kind of hungry.
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Boo Weekley
Well, I'm already on it. It's actually going to be delivered soon. Arby's Angus cheesesteak with a side of curly fries is on the way. It's the ultimate meat and cheese combination for steak lovers like you and me. It's actually the perfect balance of quarter pound of Angus steak, melted American cheese fire roasted peppers and onions with a nice garlic spread to tie it all together. It's a must try. That's going to be our lunch sandwich.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Sounds delicious. But there's one thing I've learned is if you're talking about food, I got to trust you on this. You've never failed me yet.
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Boo Weekley
I have not.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.
No.
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Mike Davis
You've nailed it.
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Boo Weekley
Well, there you go, man. This sandwich has it all. When I first tried this, I was at the shop checking on the race cars and stuff, seeing if the guys need anything. We ordered up some Arby's, and when this Angus cheesesteak arrived, I was blown away by how much steak is actually on this thing. Definitely big enough to satisfy your hunger. Tastes like a true American classic. Everybody check out your nearest Arby's today to try this Angus cheesesteak. And if you want it delivered like we do, use code dale for $0 delivery when you order through the Arby's app. That's code D A L E on the app, available for a limited time at participating U.S. locations. While supplies last, get the most out.
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- [01:37]
Mike Davis
You once fought an orangutan.
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Boo Weekley
It was at our little fair over here, and the guy brought this orangutan out and he started hollering, Five for 50. Cost you five, but pays 50. I put that headgear on, put the boxing gloves on and got in the cage with him and shuffled my feet around like Muhammad Ali, like, I'm finished. Knock him out. Of course, my boys, they ate like 10, 15 yards from and they were like, kick his ass, Boo. Kick his ass.
- [02:05]
Mike Davis
The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media. All right, everybody, it's time for another Dale Jr. Download the guest edition. And we got a great guest for you. Not a racing driver or anybody in the NASCAR Industry. It's Boo Weekley. Boo Weekley is a golfer, has had some success on the PGA Tour years ago. Now he plays on the Champions Tour. But a really colorful guy. A lot of y' all will recognize the name. You may even know some of the fun YouTube videos and sound clips. And he's just a great, great dude. He's a race fan. Came to races back in the bud days. We became friends, and I haven't talked to him in quite a while, but I did notice he's back on the course and he's back playing after a little bit of a. A break from. From the game of golf. So interested to see what brought him back and what his expectations are going forward and what he's been up to. So let's. Let's get going. Boo. Weekly on the Dale junior Download. All right, so.
- [03:13]
Boo Weekley
Boo.
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Mike Davis
Weekly on the Dale junior Download. Boo. I want to say thanks for giving us some time today. Been looking forward to this.
- [03:20]
Boo Weekley
Oh, yeah, D. It's been a long time since we got to actually see eye to eye to look face to face. Look like we're getting a little older, anyway.
- [03:29]
Mike Davis
Well, yeah, I don't know about you. I'm feeling pretty good.
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Boo Weekley
I'm feeling rough.
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Mike Davis
Well, you looking awesome, man. And I know you got back. Yeah. You got back out on the course and back in the game a little bit. We want to talk about that some. But I guess me and you met. You were a race fan and a NASCAR fan and came out to a couple races, came to Talladega. I remember one time and us meeting outside the bus.
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Boo Weekley
Yes.
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Mike Davis
And tell me a little bit about how you. How you kind of got to following racing.
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Boo Weekley
Oh, man, it's just been a passion family, you know, Granddaddy watched it. My daddy and them watched it, and then we had a dirt track. I grew up, like, about a mile and a half, actually, probably about two miles from the house, three miles from the house. And we'd always go to it when we were kids, you know, and just. I just love, you know, racing, period. And so it just kind of, like, as we got older, you know, escalated into the NASCAR and being able to come up there and, you know, see the guys, you know, follow the guys like, you're dead. And Mark Martin and, you know, just back in the day, that was the thing to do, you know, because on Sundays, you know, wasn't football, it was nascar. You know, I mean, it was.
- [04:42]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
And then getting to meet y' all and hang out with y' all, and it's Been a pleasure and an honor.
- [04:49]
Mike Davis
Yeah, it's been fun to get to know you. You're quite a character in, in the, in the golf world. And when we think. When I think, you know, listen, I'm a casual golf fan, but when I think about that world, I would. I think you would stand out. Stick out like a sore thumb in terms of personality and, and so I think that's why a lot of people gravitated towards you or really enjoyed not only seeing you do well on the course, but, you know, media, press conferences and all that stuff. There's a couple of fun clips of you out there on YouTube. I want to know first off, how you got the nickname Boo.
- [05:31]
Boo Weekley
I got it from, I was little man Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, the cartoon. My daddy used to walk in and, you know, when he come in from work, he'd always holler, how about you, Boo Boo and little kid. You know, and I got laughing about it and, you know, grinning and I mean, I was little, little. And then it just kind of stuck from there, you know, and it was just the name that, like every time my daddy started calling me that and then my granddaddy started calling me that, you know, they just kind of stuck the family members and you can't give your own self a nickname, you know, you gotta let somebody.
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Mike Davis
You can't self appoint. Yes, you cannot self appoint a nickname.
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Boo Weekley
No, you cannot.
- [06:09]
Mike Davis
So what's it like when you're, you know, when you're walking up to the 18th green and you know, you having a great game, right? You have an awesome round and you got all those people in the stands around chanting your name. Because there's not a lot of people, even in any sport that have a chantable identifier. That's right. Like Boo.
- [06:38]
Boo Weekley
Yeah.
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Mike Davis
And so, you know, what's that feel like on those days when things are going right?
- [06:42]
Boo Weekley
It's awesome, man. You know, when you have so many people pulling for you, you know, and they want you to do good and like you said, walking up 18, they'll give you goosebumps and chill bumps when you walk it up it. And knowing that, you know, you're. You have finally succeeded. You finally have beat everybody at that golf course and the golf course itself, it's. It's a feat of its own. But being able to hear your name being called out and they remember who you are, you know, not just from a golf. But as a lot of the people know, you know, my personality, like you saying earlier, you know, it's. It's Who I am. I. You know, and sometimes it's hard to embrace it as, you know, and sometimes it's. It's fun when you're not playing good and they still chant your name.
- [07:24]
Mike Davis
Yeah. I wonder why. Why you fell in love with golf. How. How did that happen?
- [07:31]
Boo Weekley
Man, I'm playing through high school and went off to college, and then I dropped out of college and came home and went to work at Monsanto for three years. And I was just a weekend warrior. I was. I was really dumb with golf. I really didn't want to play golf no more. It was just kind of one of them things that, you know, I was over it. And then he. Slocum buddy of mine that I graduated high school with, and he plays out on the PGA Tour with me and plays now he plays with me on the Senior Tour. And his daddy started a mini tour and happened to call me up or call my dad up because we didn't have cell phones in and wanted to talk to me and said, you know, he needed people to play in the tournament, the miniature event. And it just happened to be at one of the golf courses I kind of played a lot on. And so I had to ask my foreman out there at the plan if I could do it. And we was in the middle of a shutdown, so he was like, long as you can come and do the shutdown and you can go play. And I was like, all right, I'll work the night shift, you know, and so I'll go and do the night shift. When I got done, I'd go to the golf course, shower, play golf, and then turn right back around, shower again, and put my work clothes on, go back to work, you know, and it was a 24 hour shut, or actually it was a four. It was a week shutdown, full week shutdown on some of the part of the plan out there. And so I was sleeping in my truck for like two hours and then getting up and playing golf and then going back to, you know, back to work after I got done. Well, I ended up winning that tournament. And then I declared myself a pro because I made $3,000. I mean, that. I mean, I made $3,000 and I was making 625 an hour out there at the plant. That's another brainer. So I turned pro and golf in.
- [09:18]
Mike Davis
At. What was the job that you had at the plant?
- [09:22]
Boo Weekley
I was a hydroblaster. And then I did a lot of maintenance. The hydroblast, they lower us down into, like, the ammonia tanks, the bigger tanks out there. The million galleon tanks. And we'd had to spray it with a. Like a high pressure just like. Like if you go to a car wash. It was like that. But we were running probably right around 32 to 36,000psis. And I mean, this thing was. It. It cut your toe off if you ain't careful, you know? And, like, I miss. This is when you wore. Yeah, and you wore that suit, you know, you'd have to wear, like, over your feet. You had metal plates that went over your feet, and you had to wear a kevlar suit over your clothes, because if that busted or something, you didn't want to get it cut you in half.
- [10:05]
Mike Davis
Damn.
- [10:06]
Boo Weekley
A lot of pressure on that water.
- [10:09]
Mike Davis
It sounds like one of the worst jobs ever.
- [10:10]
Boo Weekley
No, it wasn't bad. I was. I mean, it. I mean, like I said, it was a job, and I needed the money. And my daddy told me I was sucking up all of his AC and eating food up, and he told me I need to get out of the house. You know, I got a job. Got out the house.
- [10:32]
Mike Davis
That's hilarious. So when you decide to turn pro, what do you got to do? You got to write, fill out a form. You got to tell somebody, mail something in?
- [10:40]
Boo Weekley
No, you just declare yourself a pro and you pay the. Your entry fee.
- [10:45]
Mike Davis
And what it. For what? Entropy? For what?
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Boo Weekley
Like the mini.
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Mike Davis
Whatever tournament you go to.
- [10:51]
Boo Weekley
Yeah, every tournament. Like, on playing the mini tours, you got to. Yes, sir. Because, you know, it's kind of the money that you're playing for is your money. Yeah, because, like, we played the Hooters tour back in the day. We played the tight lies tour. We played, I mean, all over. The DP Tour, the Coca Cola Montgomery Tour. Coca Cola Tour. I mean, we played everywhere. And, you know, you know, some of them, like the Montgomery tour, you had to pay up front, like 15,000. Damn, you'd play in, like, 13 tournaments, you know, but, like, first place was like 25 to $30,000 if you want each.
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Mike Davis
Each game, each tournament.
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Boo Weekley
Yes, sir. And, you know, they paid all the way to, like, 15 spots or 20 spots, according to how many people was in the field. Like, they might be 60 of us, and so they might pay 15 spots. You know, they'll pay, like, you know, 15% of it or 20% of it and stuff like that.
- [11:42]
Mike Davis
You. You talked about how you made the $3,000 in that first tournament. As you're going on into this process of playing in all these different tour and all these different series and paying all this money was the financial stuff working out like you hoped?
- [11:57]
Boo Weekley
Well, I started with 5,000 of my own money, and then I went to the golf course where I grew up at Tanglewood here in Milton, and I went to the members out there and asked them if they would be willing to sponsor me. And like, some of them gave me $500, some of them gave me a thousand dollars. So I kind of started out with right around 20,000, you know, $20,000. And then, you know, and what you do, like I said, you pay for your entry fee, which was normally a rentalwhere between 500 to $350 a tournament on the mini tours. And I would pay back to. To my. My LLC at, you know, times that, you know, my. While I was under, I'd pay 75% of that back and then I'd keep 25% to myself until I got everybody paid off. And then I would flip it around where it go, 25 to them, 75 to me.
- [12:52]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
And then at the end of the year when we paid taxes, and once we paid the taxes, I would what money was out of the taxes. And I still had $20,000. What was left over I paid to them because that was their interest and what we did.
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Mike Davis
Yeah. And so did it work out?
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Boo Weekley
Oh, yeah, it worked out good. I mean, I did it for. Shoot all the way to 2000. Yeah, 2001. And then that's when I got my tour card. And then I paid them all once I got my tour card and I got a signing bonus from like, I think it was Callaway at the time. And Cleveland. I was playing Cleveland Irons and Callaway golf ball at the time. And so then once I got my signing bonus, I bought them out. I gave everybody double their money, what they put into it, right out the gate.
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Mike Davis
Yeah. So you're. So these are the people that were back at your old golf course, Their sponsors?
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Boo Weekley
Yes.
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Mike Davis
They were literally just financiers, right?
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Boo Weekley
Yes, sir. That's all it was.
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Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
And damn, they were taking a chance, you know. And like I said, the first year I think we only made like right at about 38, 000. And then the next year I made, I think it was close to like 60 something thousand. It started getting more comfortable out there playing and doing my thing. And then I got more into bigger tournaments. Like, you know, the play on the Hooters tour, they pay out a lot more. I think it was like 10 to 15,000 a tournament. They paid out. I played good out there and. And all the Other tournaments, I was. Many tours I was playing in and then traveling from all the. The states. Each state has a. Used to have, like a state tournament.
- [14:25]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
And we would play, you know, play in them. You could. As a pro, you could play in them. And now you don't think you can play them no more. But, yeah, travel to all the tournaments or all the states and play in their. Their head. Their big tournament each year.
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Mike Davis
One of my favorite YouTube videos of you is you finished around somewhere at some course. You were one shot off the course record, and they asked you about it. I think you shot like a 62, and the record on the course was a 61. And they said, hey, do you know you. You? Or they asked you, they said, you know, one off the course record. That's pretty impressive. And you were like, really? I didn't even know that. And they were like, you know, they went into this long sort of conversation with you around, you know, how do you not know what the course record is? And you're like, I'm only here to make the money, and I'm gone. I'm gonna make whatever I make so I can make a living the rest of my life, and I'm gonna be back on the farm, back down at the house doing what I want to do. And do you remember that?
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Boo Weekley
Oh, yeah.
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Mike Davis
What was the situation where. What course was that?
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Boo Weekley
That was at Southern Hills, and it was there in the pga. I think it was one of the PGA championships. And, yeah, I was on the last hole, and I3 putted it, and that's why I made bogey on the last hole. And yeah, like I said, I didn't. I didn't know about no course record. Didn't know nothing about what was going on. All I know is I was just trying to make birdies. Yes. I was trying to jump up the leaderboard where I, you know, because I think I ended up finishing, like, fifth that week, but it would have put me in, like, third five.
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Mike Davis
Yes.
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Boo Weekley
And I run it by. I run that first putt by. I had about 12, 14 foot or something like that, and I run it by about three feet and then lift it out and end up making bogey. And then that's when they asked me about the. Yeah, man. Did you know that, you know, if you'd have done this or done that, you'd have had the course record and then you'd have had the lowest round ever in a major? And yeah, like, man, I, like, I ain't worried about none of that. I mean, you're always made to be broken and, you know, all I got money ain't, you know.
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Mike Davis
Yeah, I, I feel like that. That video really. I really. I love that video I sent. I mean, for months I was sending it around to friends of mine. Like, listen to this guy. This is what it's all about. Because you. You really humanized yourself and, and you made yourself very relatable in that moment. And, and you talked about how you. When you were young, you'd finished out of high school and college and all that, you were done with the golf, and then you got back into it, right? And you met. You turned pro in 2020 in 2002.
- [17:11]
Boo Weekley
No, I turned pro in 97, but got my tour card in 91.
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Mike Davis
Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah, you got your tour card, so. But you still in the. You still had this mentality of, I'm not doing this all my life. I'm going to do this to a point to where I'm comfortable financially, and then I'm gone. I mean, did that ever change? Did you ever have years where you're like, no, I'm. I'm in this. As long as I can go, I'm in. I'm going to be in this till I can't do it no more, you know? What was the. What was the. What was. What's kind of been your mindset?
- [17:47]
Boo Weekley
Well, I wanted. I wanted the. That was. My goal was to make enough money reaching. I had everything. I had. I had everything. I had some financial guys, advisors I had every. Have my team work on. We broke it all down. How much I could make and what I need to do and how I can do it, how long it would, you know, this would work. But then, of course, you know, I got that big D and that divorce and that kind of had to come back and go back to work.
- [18:18]
Mike Davis
Is that really it?
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Boo Weekley
Yes, sir.
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Mike Davis
Damn.
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Boo Weekley
Yeah, that kind of. That kind of put a kink in my giddy up on. On my financial side. Yeah. Because if not, I'd be down here fishing and hunting. Like, I know, like what I would.
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Mike Davis
But you listen, you're. I don't. That's what I don't get, man. It's like, you're good at golf. You're good enough to go out there and win and win money and make money and have fun.
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Boo Weekley
I do. Now I'm back. I'm on a senior tour now.
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Mike Davis
And I know, but, like, you only. But you only doing it because you got to do it like you are good enough to do it because it's you're good at it.
- [18:53]
Boo Weekley
Yeah, I'm good at it, but it's still like, it's like, you know, I'm, I love the competition. I love the, I love the grind of the competition. I don't like to go out and work at it as much as I used to. Like, I don't like standing out there pounding balls and you know, it's 100 degrees here right now, you know, heat index, whatever. But you know, back in the day when I was younger, I wouldn't nothing to go out there and pound balls, be up there at the golf course at daylight, 7 o', clock hitting chip and playing nine holes, figuring out where I'm messing up at, go to range, work on it and then, you know, then go back on the golf course and start trying to figure it out again. And it's just like I got a little older and it's kind of like harder for my body to do all that work because arthritis in my hands, my, I got neck problems running down into my back and stuff like that. From my previous past of playing football and baseball and stuff like that, you know, it's kind of hurt.
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Mike Davis
Yeah. I've always kind of thought, you know, man, there's something about golf that I don't know. And I mean, look, I think there's. So you're, I became a fan of yours, right? And, and you're, you're, you got a bat, you got. Boo Weekly is a kick ass name. I can, it's easy, easy name to find in the chart. Easy name to look in the rundown. There he is. And I know your personality is awesome. I know you're easygoing guy about your, about this serious, very important thing that you do. But I always kind of wondered like, what is the, what are the things about golf that do make it hard? Because I know in racing, like for example, in racing there are things about the job that when I go to the racetrack as a broadcaster and I see a driver go through something, I'm like, man, I don't miss that part. You know, it would be the heat, right? This past weekend at Dover, it was really miserable. And I'm like, well, I don't, I'm glad I ain't getting in one of them cars today. So like, what are some of the things around golf as a PGA pro that were really, really difficult? Because we just see the highlights. We just see, we just see the great stuff, the Instagram. We don't see all the hard, tough things that go into being a pro.
- [21:11]
Boo Weekley
I think the hardest thing now, that is the traveling.
- [21:16]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
Is the getting on the airplanes and having to, you know, because flying now so much difficult than what it was 10 years ago. You know, after Covid and all the stuff, you know, it just, it made it tougher. 9 11, you know, everything's gotten a lot tougher with.
- [21:34]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
And in the hotels, you know, everything's going up so much spending cost wise, you know, and. But I'd say that the hardest thing really is just being away from your family, you know, I mean, to me, you know, and my kids didn't travel much with me out there and. And I wish they could have would, you know, same time hindsight 20 20, it was kind of hard to be able to do. I felt like it was harder for me to do my job when they were there. When they were there because.
- [22:05]
Mike Davis
Oh, yeah.
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Boo Weekley
In time with them and wanted. We wanted to go to water park or we want to go, you know, do the Ferris wheel rides and slides.
- [22:11]
Mike Davis
You can't. You can't do that.
- [22:13]
Boo Weekley
And I mean, you could. And a lot of people, a lot of guys have done it, you know, out there and they have been successful with it. But at the same time, it's kind of hard to have, you know, the family out there, which it wasn't hard for them to be out there as much as it was knowing that if. If I'd have had somebody there that was really gun ho for me to do the best that I could do and take care of my kids at the same time, it would have made it a lot easier. But I didn't have that support. And that was the only thing that kind of broke me down of saying, all right, y', all to stay home. I'm going to stay out here and I'll make. I'll stay out for five to six weeks or a month to six weeks. And then I'll come home for two weeks. And then the first week I'd come home, I do nothing but just being what the kids want to do, you know. And then as soon as that week was over, now I go that following week, I'm going back to grinding and working. You know, I'm going to leave the house before daylight and I'll be back right before dark.
- [23:10]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
Because, you know, I practice, try to practice early in the mornings for all the heat and then kind of chill out a little bit, maybe fish a little bit at some of the golf course ponds and then, you know, then go back to practicing and working to get my mind away from the golf and then, you know, then start all over again next week, and then we're going back on the road again for a month to five weeks.
- [23:30]
Mike Davis
When you first got your tour, your tour card, that thing was hard to hang on to.
- [23:36]
Boo Weekley
Yeah, I got. Well, I got hurt my rookie year out. I. I hit a root and I made some ligaments up in my left wrist. And when I kept playing, came home, I think a week after I did it. And then I came home, let the doctors look at it. They told me, they said, we can do surgery or we can just give you a couple shots and see if we can get this thing fixed, you know, see if it'll heal itself. But you're going to have to quit golf for a little while. And I said, no. I said, we just going to tape it up, because I ain't got but one year out here, you know, I got to establish myself. And at the time, I didn't know nothing about medical. If I could have, you know, figured it out because I didn't have an agent, then I was kind of on my own. So I didn't know how the pg, all that stuff worked. And if I'd have known, you know, I could have took a medical, had the surgery, you know, and it took, you know, six, right. At about four to six months off and got it fixed up, it wouldn't have been a problem. Oh, and. But I didn't know that. So I. Trying to play through the pain and play through everything. And then when I got done, lost my card. Knew I had a card on a Nationwide Tour. I went ahead and had the surgery done that winter in the off season, I had my wrist worked on, and then we kind of did our own thing and then started back practicing again, and then kind of stayed out there on the Nationwide Tour till I got healed back up, and then I got my tour car back in 07 or. Yeah, oh, seven.
- [25:04]
Mike Davis
When you're on the Nationwide Tour, what was keeping you motivated to get that PGA card back?
- [25:12]
Boo Weekley
I wanted it. In my heart, I wanted it. I mean, my high school best friend that plays out on Tour, he. We both got our tour card at the same time. He Slocum. And he was the one that's pushing me. He's always been the one that pushed me to be a better player. And then luckily, I grew up with him, because the way I feel about it is if I could beat him and he's out on the PGA Tour, well, I belong on the PGA Tour. I mean, that was my whole theory of what I, you Know how my concept was in my head, you know, and he drove me, and he drove me to be better. Like, he'd come home, he was living here a little bit in Pensacola, and, you know, and we'd practice and play every day, you know, and then he'd be like, hey, man, change your putting grip. Change this. Let's do this, let's do that. We got to get this better, you know, and it was one of the ones that just drove me to make myself better at golf and to be better at golf and to be a better person to golf, not to get mad.
- [26:13]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
And that was the hardest part I had because I had a pretty good little temperament on, you know, when I played golf because, you know, I miss a three put or miss a short putt and, you know, miss another short putt. Next thing you know, that putter might not make it, you know, the next or two, you know, I might be the wedge, that putter might be broke in half. My temperament. Back in the day.
- [26:36]
Mike Davis
You ended up winning your first PGA Tour victory in 2007 at the Heritage Classic in South Carolina. You know, talk me through the emotions around winning your first PGA Tour victory. And I guess another question too, because you go back and you followed it up with a second consecutive win at the same time. It's the same. It's the same tour or at the same course? Yeah, same course. The next year in, oh, eight. What is it about specific courses? Why is one golfer, like, you know, adapt to one course versus the other?
- [27:13]
Boo Weekley
For me personally, to be able to win that first tournament was unreal. I mean, it was very emotional because we had a weather delay on that Sunday and we had to finish up on a Monday and the winds were blowing 30, 40 miles per hour. I mean, I'm, you know, I normally hit a seven iron, like right at 175 to 180. And I was hitting a seven iron that day, dead into the wind. It might have been going 130, 145, you know, and then to come back, the wind, the chip in back to back. To win my first PGA event was, you know, first thing is very unheard of. And then second thing, the good Lord was blessing me, me at that time, you know, and put a lot of work in it, you know, during that time, chipping, putting. And about a month before that, i3 putted to lose a tournament. I had to leave a one shot lead on the last day and knocked it on two or my third shot on the green. And it's par five and it was down at the Honda Classic down in Fort Lauderdale. And I ended up three putting it. And then so I went to working on my putting and chipping for that whole month. That's all I did was just work on chipping and putting and trying to figure out things. And it paid off, you know, and then just. That golf course is very similar to the one I kind of grew up on. It's very tight. You ain't got to hit it high. You can play a bump and run around the greens. You had to hit it to a certain distance off the tee because you could. If you hit it too far, you're blocked out. If you don't hit it far enough, you're blocked out. So it was kind of like. Like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. You got to put this piece here to make this piece fit over here, you know, it's just kind of like. And that's. That's the kind of golf I like to play, is where you can. You can. You know, you got to hit a 270 off a T, but you can't hit it 280.
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Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
Unfortunately, sometimes it goes 280, you know, and you just gotta. All right, we gotta come up with a different shot. You gotta be able to work the ball around the trees. And like, that golf course is kind of, you know, tree line fairways and tight little old golf course. And that's kind of like what I grew up on. And Bermuda grass greens, and I like Bermuda grass. Bent grass drives me nuts. I guess I can't read that stuff. That's like reading China.
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Boo Weekley
Hey, Dale.
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Yo.
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Boo Weekley
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Mike Davis
You also had success at in Charlotte.
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Boo Weekley
Yeah, I played pretty good up there a few times.
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Mike Davis
Yeah, you did. You came to my house one day. I had this. You'd been over by our place before and hung out with Sonny and the guys and drank beer and. Oh yeah, you came. You came by one time and brought a golf ball or a golf bag with you full of golf clubs. And you said that that set played the tournament over in Charlotte.
- [32:30]
Boo Weekley
Yes, sir.
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Mike Davis
And you left that with me. Do you know that's like somebody giving you a winning race car.
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Boo Weekley
One with them. I might not have had to give them to you, but. Well, I think I finished third or fourth that tournament with him. Clubs.
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Mike Davis
Yeah.
- [32:47]
Boo Weekley
Yeah, I had a chance of winning, but I hit it in the water.
- [32:49]
Mike Davis
On 17 so I, I got these clubs and I'm, you know, I. Again, I'm a casual fan and I don't know all the, I don't know all the mechanics of. Of how, how golf works and what y' all do. Why you have different grips and shafts and all that stuff. And you got little, little, little tiny, little, little weight lead weight stickers and stuff all over these clubs. And I pull these clubs out of this bag and I'm like, holy. Everything's. Everything is. There's not one club the same, not, not one shaft, not one grip. And like, you've taken this set of clubs and you've like tweaked and tweaked and tweaked and tweaked and everything's very specific.
- [33:32]
Boo Weekley
Right.
- [33:33]
Mike Davis
And then everything's very intentional. And there's all these little lead stickers all over everything.
- [33:37]
Boo Weekley
Yep.
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Mike Davis
And why did, why did you. I guess I got a lot of questions I never got to ask you. Why'd you. Why did you want to part with those?
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Boo Weekley
Ah, well, I had another set built and I won't because after about. I think it's. I usually switch. I used to switch clothes about every three months.
- [33:57]
Mike Davis
Huh.
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Boo Weekley
And it was that, that was about the third month.
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Mike Davis
You know, they ran their course.
- [34:02]
Boo Weekley
They run the course and not. Because I just switch them. Because then when you start bending them, because, you know, when you just like anything else, the more you bend on it, the weaker it's going to get. And then it's going, you know, and you're always hitting the ground with it. So you got to think over so many. You hit, you know, a thousand balls of that one club, sooner or later it's gonna get out of whack.
- [34:21]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
And that, that was, that's the reason why I gave them clubs to you because I already had another set built that I knew that we being on. We ain't done nothing to them yet. They kind of straight out of the factory. I lead taped them. I got lead tape on the toe and some of them, like you were saying, I had lead tape on the heel. And then.
- [34:38]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
- [34:38]
Boo Weekley
At break, I take literally, we get brake dust and mix it in with our epoxy and put the weight or at brake dust because it makes it heavier and put it in the club because I wanted my clubs around D5 to D4 weight wise and so. And some of the heads were too light, so that's why I put lead tape on them. And then I put lead tape on the toe to keep it from drawing like, there's a lot of science, like, just like y', all. When y' all with Yalls race car, what tire y' all gonna put on this side? How big is the wedge gonna be? And. Oh, yeah, you know, it's the same thing. It's all.
- [35:10]
Mike Davis
I know how you set up. I was really, really fascinated with how specific and intentional every detail was on that set of clubs. But I was also. I don't. I probably. I'm sure I said thank you. But I never really did get to take. I never really did get to tell you how much that meant to me, because I still have those clubs. And I'll tell you, it's like somebody. It's like having a race. It's like having a, you know, winning the winning race car or a race used helmet or a race used pair of gloves. It's incredible to have that bag of clubs that I know that my favorite golfer has been out on the course and in the tournament playing. So that was something that was really badass. You were. You were on the winning team for the 28 rider 2008 Ryder Cup. This was when I think the. If everybody in the world didn't know who you were, they did after this was all said and done, because you brought your. Your unique personality and humor to a very, very big platform with the Ryder cup there and with being on the winning team that year. What was that experience like?
- [36:16]
Boo Weekley
Oh, man, he gave me goosebumps now. You know, it's probably the greatest tournament I've ever played by far. Like, I mean, just the fan base, the whole mentality of our team, the, you know, you're representing not just me, because usually, you know, everything you do, you represent yourself. That's all. You know, when you're playing out on the PGA Tour events, you're representing yourself. Your demeanor, how you act, how you do everything but the Ryder cup. You're representing the United States, you know, and everybody there is pulling from the USA because we ain't done nothing. They've been giving. They've been kicking our ass for the last so many years. And, you know, and. And now it's our turn to shine, you know, and like, the way I felt about it is I'm there for every fan that was there. I wasn't there for me. I was there for every fan United States. Everybody was watching it on tv, the whole nine yards. That's who I was. That's who I was there for. And like I said, to be able to play in it was nerve wracking at first, the whole, like the. The three days of us getting prepped to go play in it was just unreal, the nerve wracking because, like, we would play the back nine and the Euros would play the front nine, and then we flip flop because they didn't want us playing together, even though we were friends. You know, we played a lot of golf with them all, and it just. They didn't want us to be together.
- [37:46]
Mike Davis
You know, you talked about it being anxious and nervous just in the prep. At what point, I guess during the matches does. Do you find your. Your groove and you get to have fun? You know, you kind of. Because there's a moment. There's moments during that rider that. That Ryder cup where you were. You were comfortable. You were. You were able to, like, be yourself, and you just laid it on that. You know, you just laid it on there and let everybody know who Boo Weekley was. At what point in the whole process does it get comfortable where you can start to kind of have some fun and be. Be who you are.
- [38:23]
Boo Weekley
Just getting it off the first tee, getting it airborne right off the first tee, boy, I mean, if you can just get it airborne. I was already like, I was ready to play then because it was. It. It was kind of like, all right, here we are. We got to do something, you know, and let's go play golf. Let's have fun. And like I said, once we got it airborne off the first hole, I was like, all right, it's just another round of golf. It's just, you know, we here to kick their butt and let's go kick it, you know?
- [38:48]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
There ain't no need in sitting here and worrying about it. You know, every shock does count, but you a partner at the same time, and you got. You got your whole team behind you, too. They're playing too, you know, so it ain't just. Like I said, it wasn't just an individual thing. It was like we was playing for everybody.
- [39:05]
Mike Davis
I guess around this same time, you were making tons of sacrifices to be that successful, you know, and being selfish to an extent.
- [39:15]
Boo Weekley
It was a lot of sacrifices, you know, and you gave up a lot of things, a lot of opportunities, a lot of time that. That at the same time, you know, would I change it? No, I wouldn't change nothing about it, because I wouldn't be where I'm at to this day, and I would. Wouldn't be the person that learned who I am as a person, because, you know, we all gonna make mistakes in life, and we all. Yeah, you ain't gonna make everybody happy in life. So you got to figure out what you want to do and how you want to do it and have a game plan and, you know, and you got to have your, you know, your family support, you got to have your friends support. And, you know, and that's the bigger difference of me is I had a big family support through my mom and dad, my aunt and uncles and cousins, and then at the same time, the friends and the guys I played golf with, you know, and then, you know, a lot of it, I played for my kids, you know, and, and, you know, I wanted them, you know, that have the things that I didn't have growing up as a kid. But at the same time, I wanted to learn, you know, how hard I'm really working at what I'm doing to get to where I'm at in life. You know, it wasn't given to me. I mean, there was nobody standing out there hitting them balls for me, you know, practicing that putting for me, you know, and that's, you know, sacrifices that you got to give up. But at the same time, you know, you look back at it, it's like, wow, you know, that's impressive that you did all that and still can still do what you're doing now and, and be able to spend time with your friends and your family.
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Mike Davis
You ended up getting tendonitis at around 2017. You'd have to slow way down on your, on, on, on your playing time. What's the career expectancy of a, of a golfer that, that's trying to do what you're trying to do? Did you feel like that you had accomplished everything you wanted to? Did you feel like that you got cut short on your opportunity to, to maybe, you know, accomplish more?
- [43:51]
Boo Weekley
What.
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Mike Davis
Where were you when you were faced with this sort of challenge, this physical challenge?
- [43:56]
Boo Weekley
I think the, the physical challenge was, is. I, I didn't, I mean, I'm not one to work out a whole lot. You know what I mean? I'm not going, I'm not gonna go get, you know, run nine or ten Miles or work out, lifting weight, stay in the best shape that I can. That ain't that, that's not my whole demeanor because I'm enjoy life. I know I get done playing golf, whether I shot 66 or 76, I'm gonna go have me a couple cold beers or some kind of a drink, you know what I mean? Yeah, we're going, we're going to marinate in the pool for a little bit and we're going to, you know, we're going to enjoy life. Go fishing. When I get done, you know, like if I see a good fishing pond, especially like there walk at Wachovia there in Charlotte, man, they have one of the best fishing ponds on tour. I mean, you know, so I get done, I go fish for a little while and have, you know, that's my breakdown, my mental side of breaking down, of getting away from golf. Yeah, no, but it was the, the body, the surgeries and stuff like that. You know, it's all self, self conflicted. I mean it's just me being me, you know, breaking fingers on the tractor, working on my truck, working on the tractor, working on my farm, you know, bush hogging disc and you know, all that stuff falling off the ladder stand, you know, deer hunting. I mean, falling out of a shooting house because I didn't, I didn't take time to put a new runner up on the steps going into the shooting house stuff. You know, I mean that's just self inflicted stuff that I did and who I am and I love it. I mean I would, like I said, I wouldn't trade nothing because you learn from what you do, your mistakes and, but the golf, I mean I, you know, I got to where I was hurting and I would, I would have said I'd have probably played, I'd have kept playing all the way through if I wouldn't have got hurt. Yeah. But I would have probably wrapped it up if I would have played in the President's Cup. That's the only, you know, to me that's the only thing that I never got to do to play in that I actually represented my country. And because I got to play in the, the World cup, me and he slow complaining it and then got to play in a Ryder Cup. And if I could have played in the President's cup, that would have been all three things besides playing in the Olympics now, which I think that's a joke. They shouldn't have. No pros and no Olympics. That should be for college kids.
- [46:09]
Mike Davis
Well, you're back at it as you Mentioned you're back playing again. You started playing in the PGA Tour Champions. You say it's because of you needed to get a little bit of money after the big D. Yeah, but you listen. I mean I look at your social media and you look like you have fun and you look like you, I know you enjoy being out there and playing and you don't know, maybe you do. How many, I guess I'll ask you how many, how many people have reached out to say it's so good to see you back on the course again, to be able to pull for you, to be able to watch you play and hope you do well.
- [46:45]
Boo Weekley
Oh, it's been a lot, man. And it's been. And the tour has been so supportive and Susan has helped me out so tremendous. I mean my fiance has of getting, getting me back motivated first on golf and second, she knows how to do this media stuff and to where I never understood how big an influence it really is, you know, what people really want to see, not just on the golf course, but off the golf course of like me hunting or me, you know, catching, messing with rattlesnakes or you know, just turtles, whatever, just doing different things, you know. You know, like she had the idea we were playing at the PGA I think last year or year four last. Or that was last year, wasn't it? Yes. PGA was playing in. And we were trying to find a rental car to get home or not home, but to the next tournament and we couldn't find a rental car nowhere. Well, we happened to be driving by a UPS building or store and she's like, well, let's just get a, you know, rent a U Haul or you rent, you know, rent something. And I was like, what? And she said, let's just rent a U Haul. We go, we're going, right? And all of a sudden we went by the UPS store and then all of a sudden there was a U Haul. And I was like, I never wasn't even paying attention. She saw the same, you know, and the next thing you know she's on her phone over there, like she knows how to work these computers and all that stuff. And she looks that up and sure enough we get us a dang U Haul. And I was thinking this is going to be like a little U Haul. You know, they got just a regular truck, like a 1500 or 2500 truck. Now we got in a 15 or 20 foot box truck. What we got damn toted everybody's golf club that was in that tournament to the next term. That's how big this thing was. No. Yeah. She said it all up like it was her idea. I was like, you gotta be kidding me. And then sure enough, we. We drove that thing 5. I think it was right at five hours, I think it was, to get it over to the next tournament. And then we traded out that vehicle for my. My courtesy car.
- [48:45]
Mike Davis
What, what are your expectations? I suppose as you're, you know, you continue to play professionally? What, what. What. What type of. Do you have any kind of personal goals or expectations?
- [48:57]
Boo Weekley
Yeah, last year, my goal was last year starting. It was last year I said, I just want to make it to the playoffs.
- [49:04]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
And. Which is. I made it to the first round of playoffs, played good. Just didn't play good enough to get. Make it to the second round. And this year we kind of sat down, me and my caddy and some other people, and. And just kind of crushed my numbers.
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Mike Davis
My.
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Boo Weekley
All my golf numbers at the golf courses. Because you got to relearn the golf courses. You got to relearn all the, you know, traveling again. Because that's not. To me, that's been the hardest parts is traveling right now just trying to figure it all out and. Because it's not. It's not as easy as it was back then and.
- [49:35]
Mike Davis
Yeah.
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Boo Weekley
But learning the golf courses, and we know them now, we know where our expectations, where we messed up at last year, we can look back at the records, stuff that we recorded and wrote down and took notes on and kind of get a game plan going into this year. And this year, my goal was, is, all right, I'm gonna finish. I want to finish inside top 36 and keep my tour card. And so far, I've. I've. I'm starting to play good middle way. I changed some irons out and chasing stuff out, and now I'm back to where I feel like I can compete and play and put myself into contention like I did the week four last. I was. I think I finished third, tied for third, but had a chance to, you know, to really do something. But unfortunately, my. Have I got a back problem and my neck or my neck problem, and it started acting up, and I just couldn't finish out the golf that my last round the way I wanted to.
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Mike Davis
How. How long do you think you want to play? Or is it just you just kind of leave that up in there?
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Boo Weekley
I want. I want to play right now. I'd love to play till I'm about 60.
- [50:41]
Mike Davis
Yeah. Son, that's eight more years.
- [50:43]
Boo Weekley
That's eight more years. Yes. Hell, yeah, I'd like to play.
- [50:47]
Mike Davis
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- [50:48]
Boo Weekley
And then, you know, me and Susan get to do some traveling while we're out on the road. And, you know, we ain't got to play in every event. We can just kind of, you know, take this week off. Because we ain't never been to this part of the country, you know, she never been in this part of the country. Let's go spend three or four days here and then drive up to another spot. Go over to Grand Canyon, look through it, walk through it, take pictures, Jump off the bluff and parachute down or something. Who knows, you know? I know she ain't, but I'll try it. She ain't. She said she ain't getting up in no airplane, jumping out of it while it's flying.
- [51:21]
Mike Davis
Talking about a couple things you want to achieve. I know there's some things that you have done that people wouldn't believe. You once fought an orangutan. How did that happen?
- [51:30]
Boo Weekley
Oh, man, we was. We was in high school, and it was at a little fair over here, and the guy brought this orangutan out and he started hollering, Five for 50. Cost you five, but pays 50. And we're like, what this must be like for the kids to pet it or something. Well, all of a sudden, the guy walks up and guy told him what it was. And next thing you know, he steps in orang. And he gets knocked down and the next other guy.
- [51:58]
Mike Davis
By the orangutan.
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Boo Weekley
By the orangutan. Oh, yeah, you got gloves. You had a amateur boxing headgear on. Thing had gloves on. I mean, it was. It was crazy. I mean, to think about it, it was crazy.
- [52:11]
Mike Davis
And it is crazy.
- [52:13]
Boo Weekley
So after about three or four or five guys went through there. Well, man, like I said, we were partying right there on top of the hill by the. Where it was all that was going on. And right down the road from there, we was. We were camping out down on Blackwater river on a big sandbar. And we had a boat down there. We had a big old fire going on the sandbar. And, you know, that's what we did back when we were kids. You know, we all camped down the river. And so we done run out of beer that I done stole from my daddy and my granddaddy. We had some moonshine. We done drank all this stuff up. Well, we had a beer. We ain't got none of us. We all broke, you know. I mean, we're kids. And so we was like five or 50 so we all scrounged up money out of our truck, and then they said, all right, we drawing straws. Well, we drew straws. And of course, I was a short man on the straw, and I was like, man, I don't do that. Let's don't do that. It's fine. We gather up some beers, and we're gonna shotgun the beers. I'm better at that. Eat a beer up, too. And I got beat at that, too. So I said, all right. So I jumped in the back of my truck, took two steps, and jumped over the fence and walked up there, and I paid my $5 and signed a waiver. So I can't sue the guy if the rangutang was to do something bad to me or whatever. Yeah, I put that headgear on, put the boxing gloves on, and got in the cage with him and shuffled my feet around like Muhammad Ali, like, I'm finished. Knock him out. Of course, my boys, they ate like, 10, 15 yards from me. And they were like, kick his ass. Boo. Kick his ass. Well, I go to. I go to Faith with a right and go hit him with a left. And next thing I know, I woke up in the back of my truck. Me cold as a wedge.
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Mike Davis
Really?
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Boo Weekley
Yes, sir.
- [54:00]
Mike Davis
Holy. Yeah, one time you dropped your keys in a porta potty after a round of golf.
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Boo Weekley
Yeah, me and. Me and another boy named Jason Hill that played out there our rookie year on tour. And at the time, I was wearing rain pants because I had some kind of disease or some kind of something on my leg that we couldn't figure out what I was. And I had to wear rain pants. And I only have one pocket and a pair of rain pants I had. And I had my wallet and my snuff in the back. And I had the keys is hooked over the side of my. On the side of my britches. Well, I go in there to use the bathroom. I just got done eating fried chicken, so my hands are all greasy and stuff, and I just pulled my pants down and go take a leak. And by that dang time, my keys I seen. I mean, it was like, in slow motion. I seen them, and it wasn't in. One of them was. It's got a little peak thing. For the guys, it was just an actual toilet. You know, they wanted a boyette toilets. And that thing. Thing hit, and I seen it sliding right to it. And I tried to catch it, but I had it barely on the tip of my finger. But that greasy old chicken got me. And they went straight down in the bottom. And then I got out of there. I went and told Jason we had to hurry up and we had to fly, catch our flight out of there. We had, like, you know. Yeah, I think an hour and 10 minutes to drive to where we had to go to get out of there. And I tried to find coat hanger. Couldn't find coat hanger. Couldn't find nothing. And I already packed my golf clubs up, had them in the car, and the car was locked up. And I was like, man, we can't even get our golf club. Because I can at least get the golf clubs and try to, you know, tongue them together, you know, pull them out of there, like. But couldn't do that neither. So finally I just got me a good old pinch of snuff, and I smeared it right on the edge of my lip up here, close to my nose, so I couldn't smell nothing but dip. And I reached in there with my hand like a baby toy up, and I found him down there. And of course, I got him out of there. My arm was, like, blue from about, you know, my elbow down.
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Mike Davis
Damn.
- [56:03]
Boo Weekley
And of course, all the caddies, I had to run right by the caddies, and I already told them. I told the. The cart guys to get me some Clorox and some other stuff that I can clean my arm with after I get it out of there. And I come by there, of course, a bunch of them caddies. I think his name is Vanderi. That caddies for. Used to caddy for John Daly. He said, God dang boo. And he's from somewhere, I think South Africa. He said, God dang boo. What'd you do, jack off, Papa Smurf? Purplish blue from here down. And I. Dude, it was funny. I mean, it wasn't funny that, but I. I had to get him out. I was getting. We had to get out of Dodge, you know? Yeah.
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Mike Davis
Oh, my gosh. That's hard to top that one.
- [56:49]
Boo Weekley
Oh.
- [56:50]
Mike Davis
Oh, my God, man. What? I bet Sunny and the boys would love to see you.
- [56:58]
Boo Weekley
Oh, yeah.
- [56:59]
Mike Davis
It's been a while. It's been a while since she.
- [57:01]
Boo Weekley
I'd love to see them, too.
- [57:03]
Mike Davis
They doing all right.
- [57:04]
Boo Weekley
I keep up with them a little bit on Instagram and some Facebook stuff.
- [57:09]
Mike Davis
Yep.
- [57:09]
Boo Weekley
You know.
- [57:10]
Mike Davis
Yeah, they're doing good. They always loved it when you came around, man, because she was kind of like us.
- [57:15]
Boo Weekley
Oh, yeah.
- [57:16]
Mike Davis
He's kind of like us.
- [57:17]
Boo Weekley
That's exactly right.
- [57:19]
Mike Davis
Yeah. Well, I appreciate you giving me some time today. It's been a lot of fun I.
- [57:23]
Boo Weekley
Appreciate it, D. I really do. It's good to see you smiling and laughing and cutting up. You know that.
- [57:29]
Mike Davis
I feel the same way about you, buddy.
- [57:31]
Boo Weekley
Yes, sir. So thank y' all so much for having me.
- [57:34]
Mike Davis
I hate we. I hope we get to see each other sometime soon together. I still like, I still like to drink cold beer too.
- [57:42]
Boo Weekley
That's right. I know I'm still my. I still drink my natural and bush.
- [57:46]
Mike Davis
I'll do it. I'm gonna have a few of them today.
- [57:48]
Boo Weekley
That's right. I probably I'm feeling to go play golf and practice a little bit and then I'll have some when I get done. I don't like doing it too much unless we're gambling, playing golf and I'll drink a little bit but when I'm playing, but when I'm practicing, I don't, I don't drink none until I get done.
- [58:02]
Mike Davis
Right on. Alright buddy. Well, have a great day.
- [58:05]
Boo Weekley
Yes, sir.
- [58:05]
Mike Davis
And appreciate you.
- [58:06]
Boo Weekley
Yes, sir. Thank y' all very much, sir.
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Mike Davis
All right, says awesome conversation with Boo Weekly. I hope we don't have to edit any of that out, because it's hilarious. But listen, you know, Boo, I've always kind of been, I don't know, a little bit intimidated by golfed, honestly, because I don't know, you know, haven't met a ton of the golfers and. And they just seem. Golfers seem like probably the most competitive, focused perfectionists. I couldn't really relate, you know, to what I would. What I would think golfer would be about, you know, out. And as you learn with Boo there, we're kind of similar. Like, I wasn't really into working out like Jimmy Johnson, and I wasn't really into some of the. Some of the things I could be doing to try to put myself in a better position successfully professionally. And, you know, Boo's the same way. He's like, I want to. I'm good at it. I want to go do it, but I also want to live life. I want to live life my terms. And, man, when I met this guy, I was like, all right, here's a golfer that I can get behind. And this guy's like, me. He's like my friends. He likes what we like to do. And we did that. He would come around for the Charlotte race weekends. He would come and stay on the property and hang out Drink beer with Sonny and the guys. I was racing, so I had to kind of be good, and I didn't get to party as much, so. But he would come around, and even though he couldn't hang out with me, he would hang out with Sonny and Sean and my buddies all day long, drink beer all night, and then come back the next Charlotte race, do it again, because he enjoyed them. Normal, regular dudes that weren't race car drivers, weren't famous, you know, he made friends with them. Just a really good guy. Great character, man, and I'm glad he's playing again. And that's why I wanted to bring him on the show, because, you know, he kind of has that attitude or he's got that perception of, hey, I'm good at this. I'm gonna play it, I'm gonna make a certain amount of money, and then I'm done. I'm gonna go to my farm, fish hunt, do what I want to do, be my family. But I kind of. I'm like, you know, I'm the fan that wants him out there, wants him playing, you know, and I'm glad that he's found an avenue to comp. Continue to compete. And hell, he wants to keep doing it for eight more years or so, which is awesome to hear, and I hope he does. You know, I think his age and his physical, you know, fitness will catch up with him before 60, but, you know, I think he can. You know, I'm glad he's out there competing because I felt like that parts of his career, especially later, kind of were affected by injury and so forth, and we really didn't get to enjoy all the. All the great boo. Weekly moments and sound bites that we were gonna get. But just a great guy and thankful that he gave us some time today, and. And I'm glad to see him doing well and, I don't know, a more colorful, funnier, relatable person in the golf ecosystem. Now. I'm, again, I'm a casual fan, and I don't know everyone, but he's a pretty awesome dude. If there's another one like him, I'd love to meet him out there in the PGA Golf Tour world. So. All right, let's move to the white flag. All right, so the teardown came out after the race at dover live on YouTube and Twitter. You can watch that all again as the team breaks down. The instant reaction after the post race and actions detrimental was out as well, with Denny Hamlin giving us some great feedback on how he was able to maintain the lead late in the race and. And just always fun. Denny also dropped by for the Tuesday recording of Dale Jr. Download with TJ Majors. And we talked about his win there as well. Door Bumper Clear came out this week with Ty Dillon as Todd Dillon continues that Cinderella run to try to win one million bucks in the bracket challenge. And so I think the the best people that I could think. I see Todd Dillon give interviews all the time and he's always so perfect and straight laced and careful about what he says. And I'm glad that he got on Door Bumper Clear because I'm sure those guys got the real meat out of the conversation and really got him to open up a little bit. And also this week, Herman Schrader, Speed street, they're dropping today. Tomorrow, another episode of Bless yous Heart with Amy. Can't wait. Looking forward to it. Hope everybody's having a good week. Hope you enjoyed Boo Weekly. Hope you're now a Boo Weekly fan like me. Check out Dirty Mo Media on Instagram, Facebook X and Tick Tock.
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Boo Weekley
I'mma put you on, nephew.
- [66:02]
Mike Davis
All right.
- [66:03]
Boo Weekley
Welcome to McDonald's.
- [66:04]
Mike Davis
Can I take your order, miss?
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Boo Weekley
I've been hitting up McDonald's for years. Now it's back. We need snack wraps. What's a snack wrap? It's the return of something great. Snack wrap is back.