Booing the winner
April 21st 2008 06:12
Boo who?
If you don't know him by now you're sure as hell gonna hear of him soon.
Big Boo, who won this week's PGA Tour stop at Hilton Head Island, is developing a following that promises to put the previous prince of hillbillies, John Daly, in the shade.
When the chants of "Boo, Boo, Boo" go up around a normally sedate gallery you can be assured a new star is being born.
The thing about Boo is that he's as raw a prawn at the fish market. He's a good old southern boy in the Daly mold but without the women troubles, booze binges and bad singing. He prefers to hunt and fish than play golf.
His manager David Hill calls him a cross between Crocodile Dundee and Roy McAvoy (the anti-hero of the film Tin Cup)
Boo's got everything needed to be a people's hero including requisite does of self-effacement.
He reportedly cried when he got his first pay from the PGA for $US25,000 and when his wife asked why, he replied: "Baby, look at this check. There's people work a whole year don't make that kind of money. They're payin' me to do somethin' I love to do."
Lord knows what he'll say about the $990,000 he picked today. Probably spend it on fishing tackle, ammo for his gun and a Hank Williams CD.
If you don't know him by now you're sure as hell gonna hear of him soon.
Big Boo, who won this week's PGA Tour stop at Hilton Head Island, is developing a following that promises to put the previous prince of hillbillies, John Daly, in the shade.
When the chants of "Boo, Boo, Boo" go up around a normally sedate gallery you can be assured a new star is being born.
The thing about Boo is that he's as raw a prawn at the fish market. He's a good old southern boy in the Daly mold but without the women troubles, booze binges and bad singing. He prefers to hunt and fish than play golf.
His manager David Hill calls him a cross between Crocodile Dundee and Roy McAvoy (the anti-hero of the film Tin Cup)
Boo's got everything needed to be a people's hero including requisite does of self-effacement.
He reportedly cried when he got his first pay from the PGA for $US25,000 and when his wife asked why, he replied: "Baby, look at this check. There's people work a whole year don't make that kind of money. They're payin' me to do somethin' I love to do."
Lord knows what he'll say about the $990,000 he picked today. Probably spend it on fishing tackle, ammo for his gun and a Hank Williams CD.
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