During his long PGA Tour career, which started all the way back in 2002, Boo Weekley has collected a number of accolades while winning over fans with his laid-back style.
Weekley claimed three PGA Tour victories between 2007 and 2013 and was part of the winning U.S. team at the 2008 Ryder Cup.
With a resume like that, you’d think Weekley would have known how good a golfer he was from an early age. But you’d be wrong.
During a recent round with GOLF’s Josh Sens, Weekley revealed the surprisingly late moment he finally knew he was good enough to play on the PGA Tour.
Boo Weekley turned pro before he knew he was a good golfer
Weekley is from Milton, Florida, and although he later became a PGA Tour-winning pro, golf wasn’t always on his radar.
At the Punta Mita Invitational – an exclusive event set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most beautiful golf destinations – Weekley played alongside Sens, a senior writer at GOLF, while the cameras rolled.
When Sens asked Weekley when he first knew he could hang out with professional golfers, Weekley gave a shocking answer.
“I’d say…” Weekley began, before thinking, “when I turned pro.”
He then went into more detail, explaining that while he knew he could play, it took playing the mini-tours to make him realize he could hold his own in the best world of golf.
“I knew I could hit it, but I didn’t think I was good enough to really play professional golf or anything like that,” Weekley revealed. “So I got out and started playing the mini-tours… and before I knew it, I made it.”
And golf was not always a priority for the three-time Tour winner in his youth.
“I stopped playing golf for about three years, about three years, about. My mom got me into it a little bit. I was out of sports. I played baseball, football and all the normal stuff,” Weekley explained. “It got to a point where I thought, ‘Okay, I have to do something.’ Dad said, ‘You’re not going to hang around the house, son,’ you know what I mean?
So Weekley did just that: He played professional golf mini-tours from 1997 to 2002, when he finally earned his PGA Tour card for the first time. Five years later he was PGA Tour champion.
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