Paul O'Hara nosedives in final round on EPD Tour
Paul O'Hara had a disastrous last round of four-over-par 77 to finish joint sixth in this week's EPD Tour event at Winsen an der Luhe, Germany.
O'Hara, who had rounds of 70 and 73 to start with, quickly improved by two shots in his final round with birdies at the first and long fourth but that as as good as it got for the Motherwell man.
He bogeyed the fifth, seventh, ninth, 12th, 14th and 15th in halfves of 36 (one over) and 41 (three over).
Sweden's Gustav Adler won with a three-under-par total of 216, made up of rounds of 74, 68 and 74.
The silver lining for the Scot was that joint sixth place paid him 1,154 Euros, which boosted his season's earnings on the EPD Tour to 15,404 Euros and he is now third on the tour's money table behind Germany's Max Kramer (22,810 Euros) and England's Grant Jackson (16,486 Euros).
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Boo Weekley (63) is getting better, on and off the course
FROM THE PGA.COM WEBSITE
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, West .Virginia. (AP) — Boo Weekley's bum shoulder is improving and the self-proclaimed redneck has put down the fishing pole, hoping it might lead to a win at a tournament not named the Heritage.
Weekley equalled his best round of the year with a 7-under 63 on Friday on the Old White course to vault into second place, four strokes behind leader Jeff Overton, midway through the inaugural Greenbrier Classic.
Weekley hit 17 greens in regulation and had seven birdies during a bogey-free morning round for a two-day total of 10 under.
"I'm excited to play again," Weekley said. "Feels like I can actually come out and compete and don't have to take a bunch of (pain relievers) or nothing where I can play."
The Greenbrier's policy of jackets required for its finer restaurants and $80 million underground casino might not suit Weekley's folksy lifestyle, but the Southerner admits feeling at home among the local fans, who consider him one of their own.
Weekley remembers fans rallying behind him when he played in several Nationwide Tour events in Bridgeport about 3 hours to the north, although he feels West Virginia owes him one after he lost in a playoff in 2006.
"It would be nice if my stars line up," he said.
The avid fisherman and hunter no longer packs the tackle box along with his clubs. Trout-stocked Howard's Creek runs throughout The Greenbrier, including in front of the first and 18th tees, but Weekley isn't giving in to the temptation.
"I put all my stuff up when I come to tournaments now," Weekley said. "I just mostly focus on golf and do my job and be done with it."
Weekley couldn't focus much after tearing a labrum in his left shoulder last year at the TPC Sawgrass. He stopped playing for more than a month and was left with a limited range of motion.
"It's been kind of aggravated like a thorn in me," he said. "Just feel like you can't take it back some days, and some days don't feel like I can come through the ball."
Weekley was a member of the U.S. Ryder Cup team that beat Europe in 2008 but was ranked No. 172 in the world this week with only three top 10s in the last two years. His only two tour wins were at the 2007 and 2008 Heritage.
After the injury he lost 20 pounds and started feeling better about his game only three weeks ago at the John Deere Classic, when he finished 21st.
He said his shoulder is to the point "where I feel like I can actually swing the club and not have the hesitation at it."
Old White's length and lack of deep rough have led to an assault on the pins, and rains that softened the greens earlier in the week have made solid scoring even more possible.
Overton's 8-under 62 was the low round of the tournament and his best of the year.
He used wedges on all but one approach shot during a bogey-free round to finish two rounds at 14 under.
"I don't really know the last time I was playing with this much confidence," said Overton, who's winless in five years on the PGA Tour. "I'm just kind of getting used to the whole PGA Tour lifestyle."
The 27-year-old Overton, a former Big Ten player of the year at Indiana, needed just 26 putts in his best round of the year. He topped his previous low of 7-under 63 at the Colonial.
Starting on the back nine, Overton came to the par-4 seventh needing to close with three birdies for a 59. His approach from 85 yards landed 18 feet from the pin and he slid his putt to the right. He finished with three straight pars but wasn't disappointed.
The Bloomington, Ind., resident is having his best season with four top five finishes, including three in his last six events. Overton finished second by two strokes each at the Zurich Classic and the Byron Nelson Championship.
Overton is 12th in FedEx Cup points and could vault to No. 2 with a win, depending on the finishes of two players higher than him in the field, Jim Furyk at No. 5 and Matt Kuchar at No. 7.
"Obviously I'd take a win over a second any day of the week - over 100 seconds," Overton said. "You never know when it's your time."
Furyk was 7 under in the Greenbrier Classic and Kuchar was 2 under.
Jimmy Walker (64) and double heart transplant recipient Erik Compton (68) were tied for third place at 9 under. Compton, the first-round co-leader, is playing on a sponsor's exemption.
Walker was poised to overtake Weekley but had two late bogeys.
Aaron Baddeley (65), Briny Baird (65), Chris Stroud (63) and Charles Howell III (67) were six strokes back at 5 under.
Compton couldn't grind out the birdies that dominated his first round, when he tied Matt Every for the lead at 7 under.
Still, Compton, looking to solidify a future either on the PGA Tour or the Nationwide circuit, put himself in good position for the weekend. His highest finish is 30th at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
"I was just frustrated because three birdies out here is not acceptable," Compton said. "I need to be a little better keeping it below the hole."
Every made double bogey at the par-5 17th, shot 72 and was nine strokes back.
Carl Pettersson, last week's Canadian Open winner who barely made the cut in that tournament, shot 64 Friday and was at 5 under, three strokes above the cut line.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 140 (2x70)
126 Jeff Overton 64 62
130 Boo Weekley 67 63
131 Erik Compton 63 68, Jimmy Walker 67 64
132 Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 67 65, Chris Stroud 69 63, Briny Baird 67 65, Charles Howell III 65 67
133 Spencer Levin 66 67, Brendon De Jonge 65 68, Pat Perez 64 69, Scott McCarron 67 66, Chris Couch 66 67, Scott Piercy 66 67, Richard S Johnson (Swe) 66 67, Ben Crane 66 67, Jim Furyk 68 65
134 Paul Stankowski 69 65, Davis Love III 68 66, Matt Bettencourt 65 69, D.A. Points 68 66, John Rollins 65 69, Bob Estes 66 68, Troy Matteson 69 65, Jonathan Byrd 69 65, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 66 68
135 Tim Herron 69 66, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 68 67, Steve Flesch 68 67, John Senden (Aus) 68 67, Woody Austin 67 68, Ben Curtis 69 66, Roger Tambellini 69 66, Justin Leonard 67 68, Chad Collins 66 69, Matthew Every 63 72, Tom Gillis 72 63, Brett Wetterich 67 68, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 71 64, Skip Kendall 67 68, Stephen Ames (Can) 68 67
136 Brian Stuard 67 69, Aron Price (Aus) 65 71, Charley Hoffman 70 66, Bill Lunde 69 67, Kevin Sutherland 67 69, Dean Wilson 66 70, Marc Leishman (Aus) 68 68, Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 67 69, Michael Bradley 69 67, Chris DiMarco 70 66, Kevin Na 70 66, Charlie Wi (Kor) 69 67, Arjun Atwal (Ind) 68 68, Mathew Goggin (Aus) 66 70, John Huston 71 65, Brandt Snedeker 68 68, Troy Merritt 69 67
137 Charles Warren 69 68, Brent Delahoussaye 68 69, Michael Letzig 72 65, Chris Riley 68 69, Joe Ogilvie 68 69, Greg Chalmers (Aus) 68 69, Graham Delaet (Can) 70 67, Cameron Percy (Aus) 69 68, John Daly 69 68, Jay Williamson 66 71
138 Jonathan Bartlett 70 68, Jeff Quinney 66 72, Brenden Pappas (Rsa) 71 67, Blake Adams 71 67, Joe Durant 70 68, Roland Thatcher 71 67, Craig Bowden 68 70, Nicholas Thompson 70 68, Garrett Willis 71 67, Matt Kuchar 69 69, Derek Lamely 69 69, Ricky Barnes 70 68, J.B. Holmes 69 69, J J Henry 69 69, Cameron Beckman 68 70, Jerod Turner 69 69, Rocco Mediate 70 68
MISSED THE CUT
139 Martin Flores 71 68, Garth Mulroy (Rsa) 68 71, David Toms 70 69, Steve Wheatcroft 70 69, James Driscoll 68 71, John Mallinger 66 73, James Nitties (Aus) 76 63, Bob Sowards 71 68, Will MacKenzie 73 66, Daniel Chopra (Swe) 70 69, Jerry Kelly 70 69, Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 71 68, Kevin Streelman 73 66, Paul Goydos 66 73, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 71 68, Drew Weaver 68 71, Johnson Wagner 73 66, Cameron Tringale 74 65
140 Patrick Moore 68 72, Billy Mayfair 70 70, Lee Janzen 67 73, Gary Woodland 71 69, Tom Pernice Jnr. 72 68, Greg Owen (Eng) 68 72, Matthew Jones (Aus) 70 70, Brad Faxon 73 67, George McNeill 64 76, Justin Bolli 68 72, Brett Quigley 72 68, Tim Petrovic 72 68, Alex Hamilton 67 73, Josh Teater 72 68
141 Rodney Pampling (Aus) 71 70, Brian Gay 74 67, Ted Purdy 73 68, Todd Hamilton 73 68, Kevin Stadler 73 68, Jarrod Lyle (Aus) 71 70, Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 72 69, Glen Day 71 70
142 Vance Veazey 71 71, Barry Evans 71 71
143 Kenny Perry 75 68, David Morland IV (Can) 73 70, Chris Tidland 71 72, Robert Garrigus 71 72, Steve Lowery 72 71, Sam Saunders 73 70, D.J. Trahan 72 71, Mark Wilson 69 74
144 Brian Davis (Eng) 74 70, John Merrick 70 74, Omar Uresti 73 71
145 David Lutterus (Rsa) 72 73, Kevin Johnson 74 71, Martin Laird (Sco) 69 76, Mathias Gronberg (Swe) 74 71, Alex Prugh 73 72
146 Chris Wilson 71 75, Jeff Maggert 71 75, Jeff Gove 75 71, Cliff Kresge 76 70, Henrik Bjornstad (Nor) 73 73, Alex Cejka (Ger) 77 69
147 Michael Connell 76 71
150 Willis Ring 77 73, Rich Barcelo 77 73, Webb Simpson 74 76
151 Mark Hensby (Aus) 76 75
152 Dick Mast 71 81
Paul O'Hara had a disastrous last round of four-over-par 77 to finish joint sixth in this week's EPD Tour event at Winsen an der Luhe, Germany.
O'Hara, who had rounds of 70 and 73 to start with, quickly improved by two shots in his final round with birdies at the first and long fourth but that as as good as it got for the Motherwell man.
He bogeyed the fifth, seventh, ninth, 12th, 14th and 15th in halfves of 36 (one over) and 41 (three over).
Sweden's Gustav Adler won with a three-under-par total of 216, made up of rounds of 74, 68 and 74.
The silver lining for the Scot was that joint sixth place paid him 1,154 Euros, which boosted his season's earnings on the EPD Tour to 15,404 Euros and he is now third on the tour's money table behind Germany's Max Kramer (22,810 Euros) and England's Grant Jackson (16,486 Euros).
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Boo Weekley (63) is getting better, on and off the course
FROM THE PGA.COM WEBSITE
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, West .Virginia. (AP) — Boo Weekley's bum shoulder is improving and the self-proclaimed redneck has put down the fishing pole, hoping it might lead to a win at a tournament not named the Heritage.
Weekley equalled his best round of the year with a 7-under 63 on Friday on the Old White course to vault into second place, four strokes behind leader Jeff Overton, midway through the inaugural Greenbrier Classic.
Weekley hit 17 greens in regulation and had seven birdies during a bogey-free morning round for a two-day total of 10 under.
"I'm excited to play again," Weekley said. "Feels like I can actually come out and compete and don't have to take a bunch of (pain relievers) or nothing where I can play."
The Greenbrier's policy of jackets required for its finer restaurants and $80 million underground casino might not suit Weekley's folksy lifestyle, but the Southerner admits feeling at home among the local fans, who consider him one of their own.
Weekley remembers fans rallying behind him when he played in several Nationwide Tour events in Bridgeport about 3 hours to the north, although he feels West Virginia owes him one after he lost in a playoff in 2006.
"It would be nice if my stars line up," he said.
The avid fisherman and hunter no longer packs the tackle box along with his clubs. Trout-stocked Howard's Creek runs throughout The Greenbrier, including in front of the first and 18th tees, but Weekley isn't giving in to the temptation.
"I put all my stuff up when I come to tournaments now," Weekley said. "I just mostly focus on golf and do my job and be done with it."
Weekley couldn't focus much after tearing a labrum in his left shoulder last year at the TPC Sawgrass. He stopped playing for more than a month and was left with a limited range of motion.
"It's been kind of aggravated like a thorn in me," he said. "Just feel like you can't take it back some days, and some days don't feel like I can come through the ball."
Weekley was a member of the U.S. Ryder Cup team that beat Europe in 2008 but was ranked No. 172 in the world this week with only three top 10s in the last two years. His only two tour wins were at the 2007 and 2008 Heritage.
After the injury he lost 20 pounds and started feeling better about his game only three weeks ago at the John Deere Classic, when he finished 21st.
He said his shoulder is to the point "where I feel like I can actually swing the club and not have the hesitation at it."
Old White's length and lack of deep rough have led to an assault on the pins, and rains that softened the greens earlier in the week have made solid scoring even more possible.
Overton's 8-under 62 was the low round of the tournament and his best of the year.
He used wedges on all but one approach shot during a bogey-free round to finish two rounds at 14 under.
"I don't really know the last time I was playing with this much confidence," said Overton, who's winless in five years on the PGA Tour. "I'm just kind of getting used to the whole PGA Tour lifestyle."
The 27-year-old Overton, a former Big Ten player of the year at Indiana, needed just 26 putts in his best round of the year. He topped his previous low of 7-under 63 at the Colonial.
Starting on the back nine, Overton came to the par-4 seventh needing to close with three birdies for a 59. His approach from 85 yards landed 18 feet from the pin and he slid his putt to the right. He finished with three straight pars but wasn't disappointed.
The Bloomington, Ind., resident is having his best season with four top five finishes, including three in his last six events. Overton finished second by two strokes each at the Zurich Classic and the Byron Nelson Championship.
Overton is 12th in FedEx Cup points and could vault to No. 2 with a win, depending on the finishes of two players higher than him in the field, Jim Furyk at No. 5 and Matt Kuchar at No. 7.
"Obviously I'd take a win over a second any day of the week - over 100 seconds," Overton said. "You never know when it's your time."
Furyk was 7 under in the Greenbrier Classic and Kuchar was 2 under.
Jimmy Walker (64) and double heart transplant recipient Erik Compton (68) were tied for third place at 9 under. Compton, the first-round co-leader, is playing on a sponsor's exemption.
Walker was poised to overtake Weekley but had two late bogeys.
Aaron Baddeley (65), Briny Baird (65), Chris Stroud (63) and Charles Howell III (67) were six strokes back at 5 under.
Compton couldn't grind out the birdies that dominated his first round, when he tied Matt Every for the lead at 7 under.
Still, Compton, looking to solidify a future either on the PGA Tour or the Nationwide circuit, put himself in good position for the weekend. His highest finish is 30th at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
"I was just frustrated because three birdies out here is not acceptable," Compton said. "I need to be a little better keeping it below the hole."
Every made double bogey at the par-5 17th, shot 72 and was nine strokes back.
Carl Pettersson, last week's Canadian Open winner who barely made the cut in that tournament, shot 64 Friday and was at 5 under, three strokes above the cut line.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 140 (2x70)
126 Jeff Overton 64 62
130 Boo Weekley 67 63
131 Erik Compton 63 68, Jimmy Walker 67 64
132 Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 67 65, Chris Stroud 69 63, Briny Baird 67 65, Charles Howell III 65 67
133 Spencer Levin 66 67, Brendon De Jonge 65 68, Pat Perez 64 69, Scott McCarron 67 66, Chris Couch 66 67, Scott Piercy 66 67, Richard S Johnson (Swe) 66 67, Ben Crane 66 67, Jim Furyk 68 65
134 Paul Stankowski 69 65, Davis Love III 68 66, Matt Bettencourt 65 69, D.A. Points 68 66, John Rollins 65 69, Bob Estes 66 68, Troy Matteson 69 65, Jonathan Byrd 69 65, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 66 68
135 Tim Herron 69 66, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 68 67, Steve Flesch 68 67, John Senden (Aus) 68 67, Woody Austin 67 68, Ben Curtis 69 66, Roger Tambellini 69 66, Justin Leonard 67 68, Chad Collins 66 69, Matthew Every 63 72, Tom Gillis 72 63, Brett Wetterich 67 68, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 71 64, Skip Kendall 67 68, Stephen Ames (Can) 68 67
136 Brian Stuard 67 69, Aron Price (Aus) 65 71, Charley Hoffman 70 66, Bill Lunde 69 67, Kevin Sutherland 67 69, Dean Wilson 66 70, Marc Leishman (Aus) 68 68, Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 67 69, Michael Bradley 69 67, Chris DiMarco 70 66, Kevin Na 70 66, Charlie Wi (Kor) 69 67, Arjun Atwal (Ind) 68 68, Mathew Goggin (Aus) 66 70, John Huston 71 65, Brandt Snedeker 68 68, Troy Merritt 69 67
137 Charles Warren 69 68, Brent Delahoussaye 68 69, Michael Letzig 72 65, Chris Riley 68 69, Joe Ogilvie 68 69, Greg Chalmers (Aus) 68 69, Graham Delaet (Can) 70 67, Cameron Percy (Aus) 69 68, John Daly 69 68, Jay Williamson 66 71
138 Jonathan Bartlett 70 68, Jeff Quinney 66 72, Brenden Pappas (Rsa) 71 67, Blake Adams 71 67, Joe Durant 70 68, Roland Thatcher 71 67, Craig Bowden 68 70, Nicholas Thompson 70 68, Garrett Willis 71 67, Matt Kuchar 69 69, Derek Lamely 69 69, Ricky Barnes 70 68, J.B. Holmes 69 69, J J Henry 69 69, Cameron Beckman 68 70, Jerod Turner 69 69, Rocco Mediate 70 68
MISSED THE CUT
139 Martin Flores 71 68, Garth Mulroy (Rsa) 68 71, David Toms 70 69, Steve Wheatcroft 70 69, James Driscoll 68 71, John Mallinger 66 73, James Nitties (Aus) 76 63, Bob Sowards 71 68, Will MacKenzie 73 66, Daniel Chopra (Swe) 70 69, Jerry Kelly 70 69, Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 71 68, Kevin Streelman 73 66, Paul Goydos 66 73, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 71 68, Drew Weaver 68 71, Johnson Wagner 73 66, Cameron Tringale 74 65
140 Patrick Moore 68 72, Billy Mayfair 70 70, Lee Janzen 67 73, Gary Woodland 71 69, Tom Pernice Jnr. 72 68, Greg Owen (Eng) 68 72, Matthew Jones (Aus) 70 70, Brad Faxon 73 67, George McNeill 64 76, Justin Bolli 68 72, Brett Quigley 72 68, Tim Petrovic 72 68, Alex Hamilton 67 73, Josh Teater 72 68
141 Rodney Pampling (Aus) 71 70, Brian Gay 74 67, Ted Purdy 73 68, Todd Hamilton 73 68, Kevin Stadler 73 68, Jarrod Lyle (Aus) 71 70, Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 72 69, Glen Day 71 70
142 Vance Veazey 71 71, Barry Evans 71 71
143 Kenny Perry 75 68, David Morland IV (Can) 73 70, Chris Tidland 71 72, Robert Garrigus 71 72, Steve Lowery 72 71, Sam Saunders 73 70, D.J. Trahan 72 71, Mark Wilson 69 74
144 Brian Davis (Eng) 74 70, John Merrick 70 74, Omar Uresti 73 71
145 David Lutterus (Rsa) 72 73, Kevin Johnson 74 71, Martin Laird (Sco) 69 76, Mathias Gronberg (Swe) 74 71, Alex Prugh 73 72
146 Chris Wilson 71 75, Jeff Maggert 71 75, Jeff Gove 75 71, Cliff Kresge 76 70, Henrik Bjornstad (Nor) 73 73, Alex Cejka (Ger) 77 69
147 Michael Connell 76 71
150 Willis Ring 77 73, Rich Barcelo 77 73, Webb Simpson 74 76
151 Mark Hensby (Aus) 76 75
152 Dick Mast 71 81
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