Final Round -
The final round for the leader Mike Weir didn't get off to a great start after driving his tee shot on the first hole into the tall grass. He ended up with a bogey and fell out of the lead. Things got worse on the 4th hole when a radio announcer doing play by play was talking too loud in Weir's backswing on the green. Weir actually backed away from his putt and was very upset. This was the same announcer that talked during his backswing on Saturday. Weir was so upset he stormed off the green yelling at the guy "Mark! Mark! Come on, man!". The announcer did nothing and Weir couldn't recover. The crowds were so big following Weir that it was tough seeing anything around the green as people were 6-7 people deep. We started following our second favourite Daniel Chopra from Sweden who was in the group ahead. The gallery wasn't as crazy, and he was playing really well. He ended up 7 under for the day, tied with Steve Stricker after 18. Chopra had numerous opportunities to win it, but hits putts all were coming up short. They went to a playoff hole back to the the 18th and they were both tied again, so they played 1, 2 & 9. Chopra drove the green in 2 on the long par 5, 9th hole and left his eagle putt on the lip for victory. Stricker missed his birdie putt, so Chopra claimed victory. Deb was quite happy. We waited around for an autograph, but he was too busy with the media (darn media-types) that we couldn't get him to sign anything. We went for a nice supper down at Lahaina at the Lahaina Fish House with Paris and Rod from B.C. Really nice people. Ran into some Reginan's in the restaurant. Back home and to bed after watching a few hilights on TV. So after 6 days of unning up and down the golf course, today could be a great day to lounge around the beach and rest.
