ATLANTA — Camilo Villegas has no plans to challenge Lance Armstrong, but the
Colombian who won the BMW Championship has caught the rush of cycling.
Featured in Men’s Fitness as one of the most finely conditioned athletes on
the PGA Tour, one can imagine golf’s Spiderman all decked out in bike shorts
and jersey, hair flying out of his helmet.
“It’s a new thing,” Villegas explained at East Lake GC, where he goes into
the final round of the Tour Championship in a tie for fourth place. “I went
home five months ago and one of my buddies calls me up. He got a cycle and
said, ‘Let’s go up the mountain,’ this mountain I used to drive up to get to
the golf course. I didn’t know if I was going to make it, but when I got to
the top, I said, ‘I love this thing.’ “
Villegas returned to his new home in Jupiter, Fl., and bought an exotic road
bicycle. Three days later …