Players pass love of golf on to sons

Quicker than a sun-drenched green, D.A. Weibring whipped out his smart phone Wednesday, thumbed through a handful of messages until he came to one just in from his son, Matt, and hit play.

The video showed his granddaughter from earlier in the day, her first birthday.

"Papa," Weibring said, beaming. "That's me, now."

There are a lot of proud grandfathers on the Champions Tour, and many more proud fathers. Some, such as Weibring, have the joy of keeping tabs on their sons following in similar golf footsteps.

Matt Weibring is a former All-America from Georgia Tech. A PGA Tour rookie in 2009, he made four cuts this season before a hip injury earned him a date in the operating room next week.

"I never pushed the golf, I just made sure he had the best fundamentals he could," D.A. Weibring said. "But his introduction to golf was with me out on the PGA Tour."

Same for Kevin Tway, an All-Big 12 golfer from Oklahoma State and son of 1986 PGA Championship winner Bob Tway.

Kevin Tway, 22, qualified for the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in 2008. Bob gladly agreed to caddie.

"Shoot, that's the highlight among a lot of things I've done," he said.

That might change. The two will get a chance to play in the same event next April in Hilton Head, S.C.

In 2004, Craig Stadler won a Champions Tour event the same day his son, Kevin, won on the Nationwide Tour.

"I was signing my scorecard and watching him on the last hole of his event on the [television]," Craig Stadler said. "It was pretty awesome."

"It's the love of the game; you hate to put it down," he said. "When I was younger eating alphabet [soup], the first letters I put together were G-O-L-F. And I'm not ready to retire yet."

Naturally, the conversation turned to a certain 40-year-old quarterback struggling with that very decision.

"Brett [Favre] takes a lot of hits," Zoeller said. "Tell him I have a tip: Take up golf."

Great save Early during Wednesday's Pro-Am, a young fox found its way into the pond along the third hole and struggled to stay afloat.