Surging Funk leads field for Boeing Classic, which set record in 2007

SNOQUALMIE, Wash. (AP) -- Remembering that Denis Watson actually won last year's Boeing Classic is the hard part. No one forgets the caravan of seven players -- carts, caddies and bags in tow -- hiking up the 18th fairway during the record-setting playoff that Watson eventually won. "I have a lot of fond memories from last year ... but I hope it doesn't happen again," Watson said. David Eger, who finished well before the leaders on that day, sat in the clubhouse with a cold beer in front of him watching numerous collapses by several contenders. As the mistakes of others started to mount, Eger's beer remained closed while he scrambled to get ready. "It was a little surreal. You still knew what was going on, and you knew someone was going to win, but you knew the odds weren't in anyone's favor when that happened," said Eger,... [read full story]