The Dale Jr. Download - Boo Weekley: Golf's Most Relatable Guy, Fighting an Orangutan & Beer Buddies With Dale

Episode Date: July 23, 2025

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.  After establishing himself as one of the most unique personalities in the professional golfing world, Boo became connected with Dale through another lifelong interest: auto racing. Boo explains that he grew up now far from a local dirt track in Florida, and his entire family followed NASCAR passionately. To quote Boo himself: “It wasn’t football on Sundays, it was NASCAR”. Dale recalls several instances of Boo traveling to Charlotte for race weekends, and how he became friends with many of Dale’s close friends during those trips.Boo’s professional career came about after he had given up on playing golf. He explains that while he was working as a hydroblaster at the Monsanto plant in Pensacola, he was convinced by longtime friend Heath Slocum to attend a local tournament. He ended up winning and quickly declared himself “professional,” and began collecting sponsorship to enter larger, higher-paying events. Boo became a fan favorite on the PGA Tour thanks to his memorable nickname and down-to-earth personality. After taking some time away from the sport due to injuries, he is now back full-time playing with the PGA Tour ChampionsAnd for more content check out our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMediaDirty Mo Media is launching a new e-commerce merch line! They’ve got some awesome Dale Jr. Download merch on the site. Visit shop.dirtymomedia.com to check out all the new stuffFanDuel: Must be 21+ and present in select states (for Kansas, in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino) or 18+ and present in D.C. First online real money wager only. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets which expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG. Call 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut, or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call [phone] for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8HOPE-NY or text HOPENY in New York.Arby’s: Arby’s Cheesesteak is Here! Use code DALE to redeem $0 Delivery on any order in the Arby’s app. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You once fought an orangutang. It was out a little fair over here, and the guy brought this orangutang 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 shuffling my feet around like Muhammad Ali, like I'm going to knock him out. Of course, my boys, they ain't like 10, 15 yards from him,

and they were like, kick his ass, boo, kick his ass. The following is a production of Dirty Mom. 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 Weekly. Boo Weekly 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 break 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 get going, Boo Weekly on the Dale Jr. Download. All right, so Boo Weekly on the Dale Jr. download, Boo, I want to say thanks for, giving us some time today. I've been looking forward to this. Oh yeah, Dee. It's been a long time since we got to act to see eye to eye and look face to face. It looks like we're getting older anyway. Well, yeah, I don't know about you. I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling rough. Well, you're looking awesome, man. And I know you've gotten back, yeah, you've gotten 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, you know, and I, you were a race fan. and a NASCAR fan and came out to a couple races.

I came to Talladega, I remember, one time, and us meeting outside the bus. Yes. And tell me a little bit about how you kind of got to following racing. Oh, man, it's just been a passion family, you know, Granddaddy watched it, and my daddy and then watched it, and then we had a dirt track. I grew up, like, about a mile. I 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's 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. Yeah.

And then getting to meet you all. and hang out with y'all. And it's been a pleasure and an honor. Yeah, it's been fun to get to know you. You're quite a character 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 think you would stand out, stick out like a sore thumb in terms of personality.

And so I think that's why a lot of. people gravitated towards you are 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 fun clips of you out there on youtube um i want to know first off how you got the nickname boo i got it from i was little man yogi bear and boo boo boo to cartoon uh my daddy used to walk in and you know when he'd come here from work he'd always holler how about you boo boo boo and it's a little kid you know and i got laughing about it and you know grinning and i mean all 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 know and you can't give your own self a nickname you know you got to let somebody you can't self-appoint yes you cannot self-appoint a nickname no you cannot so um what's it like when you're um you know when you're walking up to the 18th green and, you know, you're 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, right? Like boo.

Yeah. And so, you know, what's that feel like on those days when things are going right? That'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 use bumps and chill bumps when you're walking up it and knowing that, you know, you're, you had finally succeeded. You finally have beat everybody at that golf course and the golf course itself. It's a feat of its own. But being able to hear your name being called out and they'll remember who you are, you know, not just from a golf, but as a lot of people know, you know, my personality, like you're saying earlier, you know,

but it's it's who I am, Mike. You know, and sometimes it's hard to embrace it, as you know, and sometimes it's fun when you're not playing good, and they still chant your name. Yeah. I wonder why you fell in love with golf. How did that happen? Man, I played 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 really dumb of 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 flocum, buddy in mind that I graduated high school with, and he plays out on a PGA tour with me, and now he plays with me on a 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 that, you know, he needed people to play in the, term the mini tour 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 go to the golf course shower play golf and then turn right back around and then turn right back around

shower again and put my work clothes on and 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 from 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, I made $3,000 and I was making 625 an hour out there at the plant. That's a little trainer. I turned pro and golf in at 97.

What was the job that you had at the plant? I was a hydroblaster. And then I did like maintenance. The hydroblasters, they lowers down into like the ammonia tanks, the bigger tanks out there, the million galleon tanks. And we'd had to spray it with like a high pressure, just like if we could go to a car wash, it was like that.

But we were running probably right. around 32 to 36,000 PSIs. And I mean, this thing was, it cut your toe off again, careful, you know. Like, I'm being serious because when you wore it and you wore that seat, you know, you'd have to wear like over your feet. You had a metal plates that went over your feet and you had to wear a Kevlar suit over your clothes because it's that hook busted or something. You didn't want to get there to cut you in half.

Damn. There's a lot of pressure on that water. It sounds like one of the worst jobs ever. No, it wasn't bad. I mean, like I said, it was a job and I needed the money. And my daddy told me I was sucking up off his AC and eating hot food up. He told me I need to get out of the house. You know, I got a job, got out of the house.

That's hilarious. So when you decide to turn pro, what do you got to do? You've got to fill out a form? You got to tell somebody, mail something in? No, you just declare yourself a pro and you pay your entry fee and What is for what? Entry fee for what? I it like the mini-tortment you go to? Yeah, every tournament like playing the mini tours you got to yes, sir

Because 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 lives tour. We played, I mean, all over the DP tour, the Co-Colour, Montgomery Tour, co-color tour I mean, we played everywhere. And, 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 $25,000 to $30,000 if you want. Each game. Each tournament. 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. 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 tournaments and all these different series and paying all this money. Was the financial stuff working out like you hoped? 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 that they would be willing to sponsor me.

And like some of them gave me $500. Some of them gave me $1,000. So I kind of started out with right around $20,000, you know, $20,000. And then, you know, what you do, like I said, you pay for your entry fee, which was normally around between $500 to $350 a tournament on a mini tours. and I would pay back to my LLC at the time was that, you know, 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'd go 25 to them, 75 to me.

Yeah. And then at the end of the year when we paid taxes and once we paid the taxes, what money was out of the taxes and I still had $20,000. thousand dollars what was left over i paid the deal because that was their entrance and what we did yeah and so did it work out oh yeah it worked that good i mean i did it for shoot all the way to two thousand um yeah two thousand and one yeah and 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 uh i think it was calaway 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 of the gate. Yeah. So these are the people that were back at your old golf course, their sponsors. Yes, sir. They were literally just financers. Right, yes, sir. That's all it was.

Yeah. 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 $60,000,000. 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 all the other tournaments. I was many tours I were playing in and then traveling from all the states. Each state has a, used to have like a state tournament. Yeah. And we would play, you know, playing them. There's a pro you can play in them, and now you can't think you can play in them no more. But travel to all the tournaments or all the states and play in their big tournament each year.

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, 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 going to make whatever I make, so I can make a living the rest of my life. And I'm going to be back on the farm, back down at the house, doing what I want to do. And do you remember that? Oh, yeah. What was the situation?

What course was that? 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 toll, and I three putted it. And that's why I made bogey on the last toe. And like I said, 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 bird.

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 if I would have, you know, and I run it by, I run that first foot by. I had about 12, 14 foot or something like that, and I run it by about three feet and then lift it out, you know, end up making bogey. And then that's when they asked me about the, yeah, imagine 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 the lowest round ever in a major.

Yeah. Like, man, 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. Yeah. I feel like that video really, I really, I love that video. 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 really humanized yourself and you made yourself very relatable in that moment. 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 turned pro in 2002. No, I turned pro in 97, but got my tour card in 91. 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 going.

I mean, did that ever change? Did you ever have years where you're like, no, I'm in this as long as I can go. I'm going to be in this until I can't do it no more. You know, what was the, what was, what was, what's kind of been your mindset? Well, I wanted, I wanted the, that was my goal was to make enough money, to reach, I had everything. I had. I had everything. I had some financial guys, advisors. I had my team work on them. 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, I got to come back and go back to work.

Is that really it? Yes, sir. Damn. Yeah, that kind of, that kind of put a kink of my giddy up on on my financial side. Because if not, I'd be down here fishing and hunting like I'd know what I would be doing. But 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 money and make money and have fun. I do now. I'm on a senior tour now. 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 you're good at it. 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 and day, grenade, whatever. But, you know, back in the day when I was younger, I would nothing to go out there and pound balls, be up there at the golf course at daylight, seven 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. I 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 the arthritis in my hands and I got neck problems running down into my back and stuff like that from my previous pass of playing football and baseball and stuff like that. You know, kind of hurt. Yeah, I 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 bad you got boo weekly is a kick-ass name 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's awesome i know you're an easy-going guy uh about your about the serious, very important thing that you do.

But I always kind of wondered, like, 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 it over. it was really miserable. And I'm like, well, 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 the great stuff, the Instagram. We don't see all the hard, tough things that go into being a pro. I think the hardest thing now that is detract. Yeah. It's to 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 made it tougher. 9-11, you know, everything's gotten a lot tougher with the, and in the

hotels, you know, everything's gone 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 I wish they coulda, woulda, you know, but at the same time hindsight, 2020, 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 I went in time with them and we wanted to go to water park or we wanted to go, you know, do the Ferris wheel rides and slides.

You can't, you can't do that. 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 I'd have had somebody there that was really gunhoved for me to do the best that I could do and take care of my kids at the same time, it would have made a lot easy. 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 just stay home. I'm going to stay out here and 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'd do nothing but just me and 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 lead the house before daylight and I'll be back right before dark. Yeah. Because, you know, I've practiced, try to practice early in the morning 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, they start all over again next week. And then we go back on the road again for a month to five weeks. When you first got your tour, your tour card, that thing was hard to hang on to.

Yeah, I got, well, I got hurt for my rookie year out. I hit a root and I met 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, that the doctors looked 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 quit golf for a little while. And I said, no, I said,

we're 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. And then I was kind of on my own. So I didn't know how the PG, all that stuff worked. And if I had it, 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'm 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 offseason. 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 until I got healed back up. And then I got my tour card back in 2007 or, yeah, 07. When you're on the nationwide tour, what was keeping you? motivated to get that PGA card back? I wanted it in my heart. I wanted it. I mean, my high school best friend that plays out on tour, because we both got our tour card at the same time,

he's sloping him. 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, 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 yes. Let's do this. Let's do that. We've got to get this better. You know, and he was one of the ones that just drove me to make my sense. better at golf and to be better at golf and to be a better person at golf not to get mad yeah 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 i miss a short putt and you know miss another short putt and a thing you know that putter might not make it you know the next one or two you know i might be putt up with a wedge that putter might be broken half my temperament back in the day you ended up winning your first PGA tour victory in 2007 at the Heritage Classic in South Carolina taught 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 it's the same tour or at the same course the next year in 2008 what is it about specific courses why is one golfer like you know adapt to one course versus the other for me personally

to be able to win that first tournament was unreal i mean it was uh very emotional because we had a weather delay on that sunday and we had to finish up on a monday and uh 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 and that day dead into the wind it might have been going on one 30 145 you know and then to come back to win the chip in back to back to win my first PGA event was you know first thing it's very unheard of and then second thing the good Lord was blessing me at that time you know and uh put a lot of work in it you know during that time chipping and putting and about a month before that I three putted to lose a tournament I had to leave one shot a lead

on the last day and knocked it on two or my third shot on the green and it's part five and it was down at the Honda Classic down in Fort Lauderdale and I ended up three putting it and 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 try 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. If you hit it too far, you're blocked out. If you don't get it far enough, you're blocked out. So it's kind of like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. You've got to put this piece here to make this piece fit over here. You know, it's just kind of like. And that's the kind of golf I like to play is where you can, you know, you got to hit it too.

70 off a T, but you can't hit it 280. Unfortunately, sometimes it goes to 280, you know, and you just got to, all right, we've got to come up with a different shot. You've got to be able to work the ball around the trees. And like that golf course is kind of, you know, tree line, fairways

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Yeah, I played pretty good up there a few times. 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. Oh, yeah. 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.

Yes, sir. And you left that with me. You know, that's like somebody giving you a winning race car. By the one with them, I might not have had to give them to. Well. I think I finished third or fourth that term. with them clubs. Yeah.

Yeah. I had a chance of winning, but I hit it in the water on 17. So I got these clubs and I'm, you know, again, I'm a casual fan and I don't know all the, I don't know all the mechanics of 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 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 everything's very specific right and then everything's very intentional and there's all these little lead stickers all over everything and why did why did you I guess I got lot of questions I never got to ask you. Why did you want to part with those? Well, I had another set built. And I won't, because after about, I think it's, I used to switch, used to switch clothes about every three months.

Huh? And that was that, that was about the third month, you know. They ran their course. They ran their course. And I, 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 is going to get. And then it's going to.

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 going to get out of whack yeah 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 the factory i lead tape them i got lead tape on the toe and some of them like you were saying i had lead tape on the hill and then yeah at break i take literally we get brake dust and mix it in with our oxy 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 some of the heads were too light so

that's when 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 signs like just like y'all when y'all with y'all's race car what tire are y'all going to put on this side you what way how big is the wedge you going to be and oh yeah you know it's the same thing it's just it's all how you set up i'll 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 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, 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. has been out on the course and in the tournament playing. So that was something that was really badass. You were on the winning team for the 2008 Rider Cup.

This was when, I think, if everybody in the world didn't know who you were, they did after this was all said and done, because you brought your unique personality and humor to a very, very big platform with the Rider Cup. up there and being on the winning team that year. What was that experience like? Oh, man. You get me goosebumps now.

You know, it's probably the greatest tournament I've ever played in it 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're representing yourself. That's all you know. When you're playing out on a PGA tour event, 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 kicking our ass for the last so many years. And, you know, and now it's our turn to shine, you know. And like the way I felt about it was I'm there for every fan that was there. I wasn't there for me. I was there for every fan in the United States, everybody was watching it on TV the whole nine yards. 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 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'd 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 was just they didn't want us to be together. 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 groove and you get to have fun?

You know, you kind of, because there's moments during that rider, that rider cup where you were, you were comfortable. 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 weekly was at what point in the whole process is it get comfortable where you can start to kind of have some fun and be be who you are just getting it off the first tee getting it airborne right off the first tee boy like I mean if you can get it airborne I was I was already like I was ready to play then because it was 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 cold, I was like, all right,

it's just another round of golf. It's just, you know, we're here to kick their butt and let's go kick it, you know, the thing. Yeah. They ain't no need sitting here and worrying about it, you know, every shock does count, but you got a partner at the same time and 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're playing for everybody. I guess around this same time you were making tons of sacrifices to be that successful, you know, and being selfish to an extent. 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 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 wouldn't be the person that's learned who I am as a person. because, you know, we all going to make mistakes in life. And we all, you ain't going to 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 family support. You got to have your friends support. And, you know, and that's the bigger difference of me as I had a big family support to 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 you got playing for my kids, you know, and, you know, I wanted them, you know, that I 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 wasn't 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 be able to spend time with your friends and your family. Hey, everybody, you want the latest Dale Jr. download apparel?

Visit shop.durtymomedia.com. We're always adding new stuff all the time, especially like when we say something silly on this show. We'll put it on a T-shirt. Again, check it out at shop.dirtymohmedia.com. You ended up getting tendinitis that bought, you know, around 2017. you'd have to slow way down on your playing time. What's the career expectancy of a golfer 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 maybe accomplish more? Where were you when you were faced with this sort of challenge, this physical challenge? I think the physical challenge was, I didn't, I mean, I'm not wanting to work out a whole lot. You know what I mean? I'm not going to go get, you know, run nine or ten miles or work out, lifting weight, stay in the best shape that I can. That's not my whole demeanor because I'm a joy life.

I get done playing golf whether I shot 66 or 76. I'm going to go have me a couple of cold beers or some kind of a drink, you know what I mean? Yeah. or like, oh, we're going to, we're going to marinate in the pool for a little bit, and we're going to, you know, we're going to enjoy a lot of go fishing when I get done, you know, like if I see a good fish of ponds, especially like there 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 half, you know, that's my breakdown, my mental side of breaking down of getting away from golf, you know, but it was the body, the surgery, and stuff like that, you know, it's all self-conflicting. 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 the farm, you know, bush hog and disk and, you know, all that's to fall off the ladder stand, you know, deer hunting. I mean, falling out of a shooting house because 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. But the golf, I mean, 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, the play in that I actually represented my country. because I got to play in the World Cup, me and Heathrow Cup, me and Heathrow in the Riding Cup, and if I could have played in the President's Cup, that would have been to all three things besides playing in the Olympics, now which I think that's a joke. They shouldn't have no pros in the Olympics.

That should be for college kids. 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 you needed to get a little bit of money after the Big D. but you listen I mean I look at your social media and you look like you having fun and you look like 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 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 oh it's been a lot man and it's been and the tour's been so supportive and Susan has helped me out so tremendous me, my fiance has, of getting me back motivated first of 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, it's like, She had the idea we were playing at the PGA, I think last year, year before last, or that was last year, wasn't it? Yes, PGA we were playing in, and we tried 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-Haher or, you know, rented something.

And I was like, what? And she said, let's just rent a U-Ha. going right. And all of a sudden, there was a U-Haul. And I was like, I never wasn't even paying the tenty. 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. Sure enough, we get us a dang U-Haul. And all things are going to be like a little U-Haul, you know, they got just a regular truck, like a 1,500 or a 2,500 truck. No, we got in a 15th or 20-foot box truck, what we got in. Damn. I took her to everybody's golf club that was in that tournament to the next tournament. That's how big this thing was.

No shit. Yeah. That's hilarious. He said it all up. It was her idea. I was like, you got to be kidding. And sure enough, we drove that thing five. 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 courtesy cart. What are your expectations, I suppose, as you know, you continue to, play professionally. What type of do you have any kind of personal goals or expectations? Yeah, last year, my goal was last year starting, last year I said, I just want to make it to the playoffs. Yeah.

And which is I made it to the first round of playoffs. Play good. Just didn't play good enough to make it to the second round. And this year, we kind of sat down me and my caddy and some other people and just kind of crunched my numbers. by all my golf numbers at the golf courses, because you've got to relearn the golf courses, and you've got to relearn all the, you know, traveling again,

because that's not, to me, that's been the hardest parts of just traveling right now, just trying to figure it all out, because it's not, it's not as easy as it was back then. Yeah. But learning the golf courses, and we know them now, we know our expectation of what 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 going to finish i'm going to finish inside top 36 to keep my tour card and so far 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 in the contention like i did week four last i was i think i finished third tie for third but had a chance to you know to really do something but unfortunately i have

I got a back problem and my neck where my neck problem, and it started acting up. And I just couldn't finish out the golf, my last round, the way I wanted to. How long do you think you want to play? Or is it just, you just kind of leave that up in air until? I want to play. Right now I'd love to play until I'm about 60. Yeah, damn, son. That's eight more years.

That's eight more years. Yes. Hell, yeah. I like to play. I love it. I like it. 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, maybe we can take this week off because we ain't never been to this part of the country. You know, she ain't ever been in this part of the country. Let's go spend three or four days here to drive up to another spot, go over to Grand Canyon, look through it, walk through it, take pictures, jump off the bluff and a parachute down or something. Who knows, you know? I know she ain't, but I'll try it.

She said she ain't getting up in the airplane and jumping out of it while it's flying. 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 fall to an orangutanang tang. How did that happen? Oh, man, we was in high school. And it was out 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, a guy walks up and the guy told him what he was, and next thing he knows, he steps in a rang, and he gets locked down. And the next guy. By the orangutan? By the orangutan.

Oh, yeah. You got gloves. You had an amateur boxing headgear on. Rangatang had gloves on. I mean, it was crazy. I mean, to think about it, it was crazy. It is crazy. So after about three or four or five guys went.

through there. Well, me, 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 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 that's what we

did back when we were kids on, you know, we all camped down the river. And so we were done run out of beer that I'd done stole

from my daddy and my granddad and we had some moonshine. We don't drank all this stuff up. Well, we had a beer

we ain't got none of us we all broke you know I mean with kids and uh so we's like five or 50 so we all scrounged up money out of our truck and then they said

all right we draw in straws well we drew straws and of course I was a short man on the straw and I was like man don't do that let's don't do that let's just it's fine we gather up some beers and we're going to shotgun the beers I'm better at that

we get 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 at the Rangentang 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 shuffling my feet around like Muhammad Ali like I'm going to knock him out. And, of course, my boys, they ain't like 15 yards from him.

And they were like, kick his ass, boo, kick his ass. Well, I go to fate with the right and going to hit him with the left. And the next thing I know, I woke up in the back of my truck. You knock me cold as a wedge. Really? Yes, sir. Holy shit. Yeah.

One time you dropped your keys in a porta party after a round of golf. Yeah, me and being 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 in a pair of rain pants. I had and I had my wallet and my snuff in the back and I had the keys that was hooked over the side of my on the side of my bridges.

Well, I go on there to use the bathroom. I just got done eating fried chicken so my hands are all greasy and stuff. I just pulled my pants down and go take a leak. And by that dang time, I see, I mean, it was like in slow motion. I seen them,

and it wasn't in one of them was just got the little peat thing for the guys. It was just an actual toilet, you know, and one of the boyette toilets. And that 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 gotten. And they went straight down in the bottom. And then I got out of there. I went and told Jason, And we had to hurry up because we had the catcher a flight out of there. We had like, you know, 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, tong them together, you know, pull them out of there. Like it's got. But couldn't do that.

So finally I just got me a good old pink to 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 little baby toy up and I found them down there. And of course I got them out of there and my arm was like blue from about, you know, my elbow down. And of course all the caddies I had to run right by the caddies and I already told them. I told the cart guys to get me some chlorox and some other stuff that I can clean my arm with after I get it out of there. And I come by there and, of course, a bunch of enough caddies. I think his name is Bandarit, that caddies 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 did you do, Jack off Papa Smurf? Because my boy was like that purplish blue from here down, and I didn't it was funny. I mean, it wasn't funny that, but I had to get them out. I would get, we had to get out of dog, you know. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That's hard to top that one.

Oh, my God. Man, what you, what, I bet Sonny and the boys would love to see you. Oh, yeah. It's been a while, it's been a while since you. I'd love to see them too. Now, you're doing all right. Yeah, I keep up with them a little bit on the internet. and some Facebook stuff.

Yep. You know. Yeah, they're doing good. They always loved it when you came around, man, because you was kind of like us. Oh, yeah. You know, he's kind of like us. That's exactly right. Yeah.

Well, I appreciate you giving me some time today. It's been a lot of fun. I appreciate it, Dee. I really do. It's good to see. I love to see you smiling and laughing and cutting up. You know that. I feel the same way about you, buddy.

Yes, sir. So thank y'all so much for having me. I hope we get to see each other sometime soon. I hope so, too. I still like to drink cold beer too. That's right. I know. I'm still drink my natural and bullish.

I'll do it. I'm going to have a few of them today. That's right. I'll probably wish I'm going to go play golf and practice a little bit, and then I'll have something when I get done. I don't like doing it too much unless we're gambling. Play a golf, then I'll drink a little bit when I'm playing. But when I'm practicing, I don't drink none until I get done.

Right on. All right, buddy. Well, have a great day. Yes, there. And I appreciate you. Yes, sir. Thank you all very much. All right.

It 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, I haven't met a ton of the golfers. And they just seem, golfers seem like probably the most competitive. focused, perfectionists. I couldn't really relate, you know, to what I would think golfer would be about. You know, I, 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 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 in 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 is 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. 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 going to play it. I'm going to make a certain amount of money, and then I'm done. I'm going to go to my farm, fish, hunt, do what I want to do, be in my family. But 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 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 great boo weekly moments and sound bites that we were going to get. But just a great guy, and thankfully, he gave us some time today, 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, 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 be out there in the PGA golf tour world. So, all right, let's move to the white flag. All right, so the tear down 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 Hamling giving us some great feedback on how he was able to maintain the lead late in the race and just always fun. Denny also dropped by for the Tuesday recording of Dale Jr. download with T.J. Majors and we talked about his win there as well. Doorbump or clear came out this week with Ty Dillon. As Tide Dillon continues at Cinderella run to try to win one million bucks, and the bracket challenge.

And so I think the best people that I could think, I see Ty 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 Strader, Speed Street,

they're dropping today, tomorrow, another episode of Bless Your 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,

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