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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 second installment.

Read more of Weekley's weekly blogs: Day 1

SHENZEN, China -- It's an honor to be able to represent your country. Heath said it best in that one press conference. This is like our Olympics, you know, in golf, to be able to actually come over here and represent the United States and play for our country. We're just not playing like we normally do for ourselves. We're actually playing for a bigger prize than just the money. We're playing for our country. It's awesome. There's a lot to be proud of as an American. It's been a long year with all of our guys overseas, fighting in the war, and I wish we could get them back home. So it's an honor to be able to do this.

Boo Weekley is proud to represent his country at the OMEGA Mission Hills World Cup. (Lindquist/WireImage)

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I haven't played much. I've hit some balls here and there and goofed off, but I haven't actually gone out and practiced hard or anything like that. This is the first time in nine years, since '97, that I haven't had to go to q-school. Seems like every year I've had to go all the way to December, trying to get all my stuff right. And this year, I've actually taken advantage of the time off I've gotten, and done what I wanted to do, hunting and fishing and spending a lot of time with the people I don't get to spend time with during the times I'm playing golf.

It'll be fun playing with Heath this week. We know just about everything about one another. We haven't played together in a while. We played together in a bunch of best-balls and some alternate shots and stuff like that. He's been playing a lot, and I'm just hoping that I don't embarrass him too bad with the way I'm hittin' it -- if I'm hittin' sideways a little bit. He knows at the same time that I haven't had a couple years off to be able to do what I want to do, and he respects that. We really do know each other's game. We know exactly where we need to put it, for certain shots, and this, that and the other. So it will work out. I think it will be good for us. It's going to be interesting to see what happens.

Our games match up pretty well. I think the strength of mine is I've got a little more distance than he does off the tee. And I'd say I hit maybe a couple more greens than he would on average with my longer irons. And his strengths are he putts the ball real solid and he has a real good short game around the greens. Plus, he drives the ball good. He hits it in the fairway, which will be a bonus, because if he's hittin' it in the fairway, maybe I can go ahead and swing at it a little harder or something.

Man, look, I'm going to be nervous, but I'm nott going to be nervous because I'm playing for the United States. I've got all my friends back home, my family that's supporting me. It's just another tournament. You know, if we finish dead last, I might get a little grief about it, but I don't think we're going to do that.

I haven't got a clue about the history of this tournament. D.J. told me something -- that it started in like 1953. I don't keep up with history of golf, though. No, you could have asked me something about some deer or fishing, and I can tell you some answers. But I don't know nothing about this golf. I'm just looking forward to playing.