DORAL, Fla. (AP) -- Boo Weekley was on the practice green at Doral late Monday when he noticed a teenager watching, then challenged him to a contest for the next 30 minutes. When they finished, Weekley reached into his bag for a ball, and carefully signed his name.

Too bad Arnold Palmer wasn't around to see this. The King would have approved.

Palmer imparted unsolicited advice last week to young players on how to sign an autograph.

"I don't know where a player comes off, a young player particularly, that is being asked to give an autograph and he scribbles something down there that you can't read," Palmer said. "Well, who in the hell knows what it is? Why take the time to do it? Why not make it legible?"

Palmer said he can always recognize something signed by Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. As for his own autograph, it is among the most recognizable in sports.

"If you're going to give an autograph, make it legible so that people know what the hell they have in their hand," Palmer said.

Weekley passes that test easily.

CADDY FOR A CADDIE: Imagine a player standing over a 10-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. The camera might want to be trained on the caddie, who also will have plenty at stake.

In an effort to "salute the allies" of the PGA TOUR, the tournament is awarding a Cadillac to the caddie of this year's champion.

A notice posted in the caddie trailer last week said the "Caddy for a Caddie" deal means a 2007 Cadillac XLR-V for the winning looper. The value of the car was listed at $85,000.

Previously, one of the best perks for caddies came at the Wachovia Championship, where the caddie for the defending champion is given a Mercedes-Benz as a courtesy car for the week.

SENDEN CONSOLATION: Two straight weeks. One putt.

That was enough to keep John Senden out of the WGC-CA Championship. The lanky Australian was poised to crack the top 50 at Innisbrook until Stewart Cink holed a 50-foot birdie putt that forged a six-way tie for second, costing Senden precious world ranking points.

He had one last chance at Bay Hill, but wound up in a six-way tie for 48th. Had it been a five-way tie for 48th, or if Senden had finished one spot higher, he would have been No. 50. Instead, he finished .003 points behind Nick Dougherty.

Tough break, yes, but not the end of the world.

Senden at least is in the Masters. He went to Augusta National on Monday to play his first practice round.

DIVOTS: Tiger Woods won an award last week that was largely overlooked, perhaps because it happens so often. He received the 2007 Mark H. McCormack Award for being No. 1 in the world ranking for the most weeks. Woods has won the award every year since it began in 1998. ... Already a member of Augusta National and close to 100 other golf clubs, Arnold Palmer added another jewel when he learned last month he had been accepted as a member of Cypress Point. Palmer is part of the business group that owns Pebble Beach. ... Americans have won 20 of the 27 World Golf Championships, with Tiger Woods capturing 15 of those.

STAT OF THE WEEK: Tiger Woods has won 18 tournaments when the field has been 72 players or fewer.

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