Boo Weekley rips PGA Tour schedule because ‘ain’t no time for hunting and fishing’

Boo Weekley put into words what many PGA Tour pros and fans believe to be true — the golf season is just too damn long.

“Honestly, this wraparound season sucks,” Weekley said Wednesday from the Sanderson Farms Championship. “It does, seriously ... It’s just, it’s stupid. I still ain’t figured out this FedEx. What does this FedExCup stuff do? It ain’t doing nothing, but it is what it is. It’s supposed to be the players’ tour. It’s Tim Finchem and them’s tour, is what it is.”

While Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson and many of the tour’s heavy hitters are slugging it out in China this week, Weekley is in Mississippi trying to earn points for a system he doesn’t understand but that was kind of established for players like him. The tour instituted the new season, which now spans two calendar years, to enable unheralded veterans and newbies to win points for the season-ending series of so-called playoff games while the superstars wait until the new year to kick themselves into gear.

Perhaps it’s his 71st-place finish and missed cut in his first two starts of the new campaign that has Weekley a tad grumpy. Whatever’s gnawing at him, the 42-year-old Floridian would rather be almost anywhere else pursuing almost anything else than a little dimpled ball.

“It’s aggravating having to play this much, but yet it’s important to come out and try to get a good start,” he said. “It’s just golf after golf after golf. Ain’t no time for hunting and fishing, man.”

Wonder how much ammo and bait Boo, who’s banked $14.3 million over his journeyman career, could buy with his winnings on the rifle and rod circuit?