Golf: Crucial missed putt and darkness add one day to the Honda Classic
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLA. - Boo Weekley missed a 3-foot par putt Sunday on the final regulation hole of the Honda Classic, wasting a chance to win his first PGA Tour title.
He'll have to wait until Monday morning to get another chance.
Courtesy of Weekley's miss, he, Camilo Villegas, Mark Wilson and Jose Coceres -- who all finished at 5-under 275 -- went into a four-man playoff Sunday night, one that they couldn't finish before darkness fell on the PGA National.
"I was shaking," Weekley said. "I ain't going to lie about it. I mean, I was shaking like a leaf. ... I made a good stroke. I just hit it way too hard."
Each player made par at the par-5 18th, the first playoff hole. Wilson made a spectacular par, driving his tee shot into the mud and scrambling to the green before making a 30-foot putt to keep him in contention, and Coceres' birdie try that would have ended the tournament hit the lip and rolled away.
"I'm old. I'm 43," said Coceres, who is 1-1 in playoffs on tour and is the only member of the final foursome here to go to extra holes in a tour event. "I couldn't see."
Weekley made a 3-footer to earn his trip to the second playoff hole, and Villegas then tapped in from about 2 feet -- the final shot before play was suspended.
"We had no chance of playing any more holes," Villegas said. "It was real dark."
Villegas and Coceres each closed at 4-under 66, while Weekley and Wilson both shot 71 to finish at 5-under 275. Tripp Isenhour (67), Robert Allenby (68) and Steve Stricker (69) followed at 4 under.
Play was scheduled to resume at 8:30 a.m. Monday, with the foursome on the par-4 10th hole, continuing to vie for the $990,000 winner's prize. |
