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By Boo Weekley
Special to PGATOUR.com

Editor's note: Boo Weekley is teaming with his good friend, Heath Slocum to represent the United States at the OMEGA Mission Hills World Cup in China. He'll be writing a diary each day for PGATOUR.com and this is his first installment.

SHENZEN, China -- The trip over here it was long. I'd been out hunting in Illinois. Actually, it's kind of crazy. I got home about 9 o'clock Sunday, turned around, just grabbed some stuff out of one bag and put it in another and got up the next morning about 3 o'clock, 3:30 and flew to Pensacola and got on the plane at 6. I didn't kill anything, but I had a good time. The Mossy Oak guys were there and did some film, so it's great. It was awesome to be able to go hunting especially up in Illinois. It was cold, wheeww, it was cold.

Boo Weekey tees it up during the pro-am at the Omega Mission Hills World Cup. (Heathcote/Getty Images)

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Like I said, we left at 6 o'clock from Pensacola, Fla., and got here at 6 another day. Now, that's pretty impressive when you know you can fly and be somewhere else the next day and not even really get out of an airplane. We flew to Charlotte, N.C., and then flew to Chicago. Every stop that we made, we probably weren't on the ground 10 minutes -- we just ran right over there to the next airplane and got on them and we were off. We got to Hong Kong and everything was great until we got to the last place to, I reckon, come through the border here or something, and my caddy, JoJo, he didn't have the right visa. He didn't have any visa. So he's back in Hong Kong right now trying to get one. It's an ordeal every time we go somewhere. Every time we get ready to leave the country, it's something different.

The flight was almost as long as driving I-10 -- especially when you're leaving from Jacksonville and going to San Antonio. Now, that's a long drive. So, yeah, it was a long flight. I got a couple of sleeping pills and took them to help me rest on the airplane, and once I got comfortable, I ate and went on to sleep. I slept probably about five hours on the plane, and then woke up and kind of filly-farted around a little bit and then laid back down a little bit. I just kind of dozed off and on, and then got here last night and was hungry as all get out. It wasn't going to take us but about an hour and a half to get from Hong Kong to here, I reckon, but it ended up taking us right at three hours because of all the ordeal with my caddie. I had a BLT and then went on to sleep and then woke up about 3 o'clock. I've been up ever since.

This place is really something. There's so many people waiting on you around here, you don't know what to do. I'm not used to all of this. I got to the hotel last night, and we weren't there 10 minutes and I was looking around and wondering where my clubs are and where my clothes were at, and the lady there said, 'Well, the man's outside.' I said, 'What's he doing outside?' She said, 'Well, he's waiting for you to come and tell him to bring the stuff in.' I said, 'Well, tell him to get in here.' I'm not used to all this attention and all this service. There's people everywhere. I'm just used to doing things on my own.

Man, I don't even know where I'm at, though. All I know is I am somewhere in China. Seriously, I don't know. I couldn't tell you -- if you could have put me on a map, I couldn't tell you. Only thing I can tell you is I know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. And it's a day early. I do like Chinese food, though. I know it's from the house, it's a little different, but I'll try it. There's no shame in trying anything. I like sushi, so I'll try anything at least once. If I don't like it, I'll order something else. So we'll see what happens.