Honda Classic will continue today with four-man playoff

Only 3 feet separated Boo Weekley from everything he's spent the last decade chasing. A PGA Tour victory, the big winner's check, a two-year exemption, all of them a mere short putt away.

He pulled his putter back in the fading light on the 72nd hole of the Honda Classic, struck the ball and waited for the cheers to rain down.

They never came.

And he had to wait until Monday morning to get a shot at redeeming himself.

Courtesy of Weekley's miss on the final hole of regulation, 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 PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

"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."

Play was scheduled to resume at 8:30 a.m. today, with the foursome on the par-4 10th hole.

With a 15-footer on the tournament's 71st hole, the par-3 17th, Weekley took the lead and only needed a par at the last to get that win and the money. He reached the 18th green in three shots, tipping his cap as he walked up to acknowledge the long, loud serenade of "Boo."

The gallery made a much different sound moments later, when his putt slid past the left edge.

"You've got to feel for Boo," Villegas said. "But it's golf. Those things happen."

Each player made par at the par-5 18th, the first playoff hole. Wilson's was spectacular, coming after he drove his tee shot into the mud and scrambling to the green before making a 30-foot putt to keep him in contention.

Wilson, 0-for-110 in tour events, also made a 45-footer to save par at the 16th hole -- which, obviously, kept his hopes afloat.

And Coceres -- who lost a playoff to Fred Funk in Mexico at last week's tour stop, the Mayakoba Golf Classic -- had a birdie try that would have ended the tournament hit the lip and roll away.

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.

Villegas and Coceres closed with 4-under 66s, while Weekley and Wilson shot 71s to finish at 5-under 275.

European Tour

South Africa's Anton Haig won the Johnnie Walker Classic for his first European tour title, holing a 3-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with compatriot Richard Sterne and England's Oliver Wilson.

The 20-year-old Haig shot a 2-under 70 to match Sterne (72) and Wilson (71) at 13-under 275 on the Blue Canyon Country Club's Canyon Course in Phuket, Thailand. South Africa's Retief Goosen (70) finished fourth at 10 under, and Canada's Mike Weir (67) followed at 9 under.

-- The Associated Press