2024 - WEEK 51 Dec 16 - Dec 22
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THE WEEK AHEAD (9/7 - 9/13)
PGA Tour: BMW Championship
Site: Cog Hill G&CC (No.4 course) - Lemont, IL
Yards: 7,386 Par: 71
Defending: Camilo Villegas 265 (beat D. Hart by 2)
Field: All who’ve survived past the Deutsche Bank Championship.
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European PGA Tour: Mercedes-Benz Championship
Site: GC Gut Larchenhof - Cologne, Germany
Yards: 7,289 Par: 72
Defending: Robert Karlsson 275 (beat F. Molinari by 2)
Field: World Top 20: Henrik Stenson (6) & Lee Westwood (10).
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Asian Tour: Macau Open
Site: Macau G&CC - Coloane, Macau
Yards: 6,624 Par: 71
Defending: David Gleeson 266 (beat W.T. Lin by 3)
Field: World Top 20: None.
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LPGA Tour: P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship
Site: Pinnacle Country Club – Rogers, AR
Yards: 6,238 Par: 72
Defending: Seon Hwa Lee 201 (beat M. Lee & J. Park by 1)
Field: World Top 20: The entire Rolex top 20 except Lorena Ochoa (1), Suzann Pettersen (6), Karrie Webb (7), In Kyung Kim (9), Catriona Matthew (15) & Anna Nordqvist (16).
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Elsewhere…
LET – Randstad Open de France – Pas de Calais, France
JLPGA – Japan LPGA Championship – Gifu, Japan
Nationwide – Utah Championship – Sandy, UT
Euro Challenge – Dutch Futures – Halfweg, Netherlands
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THE WEEK IN REVIEW (8/31 - 9/6)
PGA Tour: Deutsche Bank Championship
Winner: Steve Stricker 63-72-65-67 267 (beat J. Dufner & S. Verplank by 1)
Site: TPC Boston - Norton, MA
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European & Asian PGA Tours: Omega European Masters
Winner: Alexander Noren 65-70-63-66 264 (beat B. Dredge by 2)
Site: Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club – Crans, Switzerland
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Japan Tour: Fujisankei Classic
Winner: Ryo Ishikawa 69-65-68-70 272 (beat D. Maruyama by 5)
Site: Fujizakura Country Club – Yamanashi, Japan
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Sunshine Tour: SAA Pro-Am Invitational
Winner: Ryan Tipping 69-70-69 208 (beat C. Swanepoel in a playoff)
Site: Randpark Golf Club – Johannesburg, South Africa
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LPGA Tour: CN Canadian Women’s Open
Winner: Suzann Pettersen 65-68-66-70 269 (beat five players by 5)
Site: Priddis Greens Golf & Country Club – Calgary, Alberta
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Champions Tour: Walmart First Tee Open
Winner: Jeff Sluman 65-73-68 206 (beat G. Jones by 2)
Site: Pebble Beach Golf Links – Pebble Beach, CA
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Elsewhere…
JLPGA – Golf 5 Ladies – Shinobu Moromizato 202 (Story)
Futures – ILOVENY Championship – Song Yi Choi 205 (Story)
Nationwide – Mexico Open – Troy Merritt 273 (Story)
Euro Challenge – Fred Olsen Challenge de Espana – Rhys Davies 267 (Story)
Canadian – Canadian Tour Championship – James Love 269 (Story)
Euro Seniors – Travis Perkins plc Senior Masters – Tony Johnstone 206 (Story)
THE WEEK AHEAD (8/31 - 9/6)
PGA Tour: Deutsche Bank Championship
Site: TPC Boston - Norton, MA
Yards: 7,207 Par: 71
Defending: Vijay Singh 262 (beat M. Weir by 5)
Field: All remaining qualifiers following The Barclay’s..
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European & Asian PGA Tours: Omega European Masters
Site: Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club – Crans, Switzerland
Yards: 6,822 Par: 71
Defending: Jean-Francois Lucquin 271 (beat R. McIlroy in a playoff)
Field: World Top 20: Lee Westwood (9) Other Notables: Darren Clarke, Anders Hansen, Trevor Immelman, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Graeme McDowell, Paul McGinley & Andres Romero.
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Japan Tour: Fujisankei Classic
Site: Fujizakura Country Club – Yamanashi, Japan
Yards: 7,397 Par: 71
Defending: Toyokazu Fujishima 271 (beat H. Iwata in a playoff)
Field: World Top 20: None Other Notables: Ryo Ishikawa, Toshi Izawa, Shingo Katayama, Shigeki Maruyama & Prayad Marksaeng.
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Sunshine Tour: SAA Pro-Am Invitational
Site: Randpark Golf Club – Johannesburg, South Africa
Meters: 7014 Par: 72
Defending: New Event
Field: World Top 20: None Other Notables: Desvonde Botes, Darren Fichardt, James Kingston & Des Terblnche.
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LPGA Tour: CN Canadian Women’s Open
Site: Priddis Greens Golf & Country Club – Calgary, Alberta
Yards: 6,427 Par: 71
Defending: Katherine Hull 277 (beat S.R. Pak by 1)
Field: World Top 20: The entire Rolex top 20 Other Notables: Laura Davies, Juli Inkster, Meg Mallon, Liselotte Neumann, Se Ri Pak & Michelle Wie.
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Champions Tour: Walmart First Tee Open
Site: Pebble Beach Golf Links – Pebble Beach, CA
Yards: 6,737 Par: 72
Defending: Jeff Sluman 202 (beat C. Stadler & F. Zoeller by 5)
Field: Ranked: The entire Charles Schwab Cup top 20 except Bernhard Langer (3), Larry Mize (4) Other Notables: Isao Aoki, Ben Crenshaw, Hale Irwin, Larry Nelson, Greg Norman, Jerry Pate & Gary Player.
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Elsewhere…
JLPGA – Golf 5 Ladies – Gifu, Japan
Futures – ILOVENY Championship – Albany, NY
Nationwide – Mexico Open – Valencia, Mexico
Euro Challenge – Fred Olsen Challenge de Espana – Canary Islands, Spain
Canadian – Canadian Tour Championship – St Catherines, Ontario
Euro Seniors – Travis Perkins plc Senior Masters – Woburn, England
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THE WEEK IN REVIEW (8/24 - 8/30)
PGA Tour: The Barclay’s
Winner: Heath Slocum 66-72-70-67 275 (beat four players by 1)
Site: Liberty National Golf Club - Jersey City, NJ
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European PGA Tour: Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles
Winner: Peter Hedblom 72-68-68-67 275 (beat M. Erlandsson by 1)
Site: Gleneagles Hotel (Centenary course) – Perthshire, Scotland
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Japan Tour: Vana H Cup KBC Augusta
Winner: Yuta Ikeda 69-66-69-63 267 (beat Y. Imano in a playoff)
Site: Keya Golf Club – Fukioka, Japan
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Sunshine Tour: Zambia Open
Winner: Jbe’ Kruger 69-68-67 204 (beat T. Moore by 3)
Site: Ndola Golf Club – Ndola, Zambia
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LPGA Tour: Safeway Classic
Winner: M.J. Hur 69-69-65 203 (beat S. Pettersen & M. Redman in a playoff)
Site: Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club (Ghost Creek course) – North Plains, OR
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Champions Tour: Boeing Classic
Winner: Loren Roberts 68-65-65 198 (beat M. O'Meara by 1)
Site: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge – Snoqualmie, WA
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Elsewhere…
LET – Finnair Masters – Beatriz Recari 202 (Story)
JLPGA – Yonex Ladies – Mi Jeong Jeon 199 (Story)
Nationwide – Northeast Pennsylvania Classic – Gary Christian 265 (Story)
Euro Challenge – DHL Wroclaw Open – Eric Ramsay 263 (Story)
Canadian – Seaforth Country Classic – Brian Unk 258 (Story)
THE WEEK AHEAD (8/24 - 8/30)
PGA Tour: The Barclay’s
Site: Liberty National Golf Club - Jersey City, NJ
Yards: 7,400 Par: 70
Defending: Vijay Singh 276 (beat S. Garcia in a playoff)
Field: World Top 20: All except Henrik Stenson (5), Lee Westwood (9), Martin Kaymer (12) & Robert Karlsson (17) Other Notables: All other regular season FedEx Cup qualifiers.
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European PGA Tour: Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles
Site: Gleneagles Hotel (Centenary course) – Perthshire, Scotland
Yards: 7,316 Par: 72
Defending: Gregory Havret 278 (beat G. Storme by 1)
Field: World Top 20: None Other Notables: James Kingston, Paul Lawrie, Colin Montgomerie & Jose Maria Olazabal.
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Japan Tour: Vana H Cup KBC Augusta
Site: Keya Golf Club – Fukioka, Japan
Yards: 7,173 Par: 72
Defending: Shintaro Kai 278 (beat H. Hoshino by 1)
Field: World Top 20: None Other Notables: Ryo Ishikiawa, Toshi Izawa, Shingo Katayama, Prayed Marksaeng & Shigeki Maruyama.
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Sunshine Tour: Zambia Open
Site: Ndola Golf Club – Ndola, Zambia
Yards: 7,079 Par: 73
Defending: Tyrone Ferreira 280 (beat C. Coetzee & D. van den Heever by 2)
Field: World Top 20: None Other Notables: Not many.
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LPGA Tour: Safeway Classic
Site: Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club (Ghost Creek course) – North Plains, OR
Yards: 6,546 Par: 72
Defending: Cristie Kerr 203 (beat H. Alfredsson & H. Gustafson in a playoff)
Field: World Top 20: The entire Rolex top 20 Other Notables: Laura Davies, Liselotte Neumann, Se Ri Pak
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Champions Tour: Boeing Classic
Site: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge – Snoqualmie, WA
Yards: 7,264 Par: 72
Defending: Tom Kite 202 (beat S. Simpson by 2)
Field: Ranked: The entire Charles Schwab Cup top 20 except Joey Sindelar (5), Mike Reid (7), Tom Lehman (T16) & Tom Watson (19) Other Notables: Isao Aoki, Ben Crenshaw, Hale Irwin, Gil Morgan, Jerry Pate, Gary Player & Fuzzy Zoeller.
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Elsewhere...
LET – Finnair Masters – Tali, Finland
JLPGA – Yonex Ladies – Niigata, Japan
Nationwide – Northeast Pennsylvania Classic – Moscow, PA
Euro Challenge – DHL Wroclaw Open – Wroclaw, Poland
Canadian – Seaforth Country Classic – Seaforth, Ontario
THE WEEK IN REVIEW (8/17 - 8/23)
PGA Tour: Wyndham Championship
Winner: Ryan Moore 64-65-70-65 264 (beat J. Bohn & K. Stadler in a playoff)
Site: Sedgefield Country Club - Greensboro, NC
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European PGA Tour: KLM Open
Winner: Simon Dyson 67-67-68-63 265 (beat P. Hedblom & Pe. Lawrie in a playoff)
Site: Kennemer Golf & Country Club – Zandvoort, Netherlands
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Japan Tour: Kansai Open
Winner: Hiroyuki Fujita 69-66-61-68 264 (beat T. Hiratsuka & T. Kondo by 2)
Site: Takarazuka Golf Club (New course) – Hyogo, Japan
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Sunshine Tour: Telkom PGA Pro-Am
Winner: Jaco Van Zyl 68-70-66 204 (beat T.C. Charamba by 5)
Site: Centurion Country Club – Centurion, South Africa
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Champions Tour: JELD-WEN Tradition
Winner: Mike Reid 70-67-66-69 272 (beat J. Cook in a playoff)
Site: Crosswater Club at Sunriver – Sunriver, Oregon
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Elsewhere...
JLPGA – CAT Ladies – Shinobu Moromizato 208 (Story)
Futures – Turkey Hill Classic – Delayed
Nationwide – Christmas in October – Michael Sim 264 (Story)
Canadian – Desjardins Montreal Open – Stuart Anderson 263 (Story)
Euro Seniors – Scottish Senior Open – Glenn Ralph 208 (Story)
AND THE WALLS...
...Haven’t tumbled down just yet.
Y.E. Yang did what nobody else has this past weekend, staring Tiger Woods in the eye on a Major championship stage and emerging victorious. It was stunning stuff for the 37-year-old Yang, whose résumé (which also includes four Japan Tour wins, a Korean Open, the prestigious 2006 HSBC Champions in Shanghei and this year’s PGA Tour Honda Classic) is quite beyond what many mainstream media outlets seemed to realize, but which was not, on the whole, predictive of a week such as this. But while many a star of the Woods era has laid down before him on Major Sundays, Yang did more than just hold it together; indeed, his closing two-under-par 70 tied for low round of the day, his par save and the 13th and chip-in eagle at the 14th represented elite high-pressure execution, and his hybrid approach to within 10 feet at the 475-yard finisher was a genuine epic.
The law of averages always suggested that Tiger would give one of these away eventually, but Yang went out and beat Woods; he didn’t wait to see if fate might hand him the trophy.
Still, the majority of the new conversation pertains to Woods, and to what extent his game has declined from those halcyon days of 2000 – and several epic campaigns since. At a very obvious level, the fact that he has won five times in 2009 (including the two weeks directly ahead of the PGA) demonstrates conclusively that his game is not in some bottomless decline. Further, his failure to win a Major in 2009 is hardly without precedent; 1998, 2003 and 2004 were similarly Major-free, with the latter two seasons each offering only a single top-10 in the game’s four biggest events. [As an aside, Jack Nicklaus endured three Major-less years between turning pro in 1961 and the end of his 33rd year – so these things do happen.]
The bigger question about Woods, it seems, is the general state of his game, which currently resembles Seve Ballesteros in his prime far more than Nicklaus in his. Sunday’s “I hit it great all day” assessment notwithstanding, Woods’ game is clearly beset by questions, ranging from the occasional putting woes (perhaps temporary) to a golf swing which, despite the built-in straightness of modern equipment, all too frequently sees his tee shots spray rather epically off line. Yet despite such issues, he remains comfortably the world’s best golfer – and objectively speaking, there is still no serious threat to his throne.
That said, lets see where we stand a year from now. If Tiger wins another Major or two in 2010, his stranglehold on number one will remain absolute, he’ll be creeping ever closer to Nicklaus’s record of 18 professional Majors, and a supreme dominance of the game’s career record book will loom just over the horizon. Should he fail to claim another Major in 2010, however, an alternative story becomes considerably more writeable, and questions of a decline may carry legitimate weight.
There will be much to look forward to in 2010.
THE WEEK AHEAD (8/17 - 8/23)
PGA Tour: Wyndham Championship
Site: Sedgefield Country Club - Greensboro, NC
Yards: 7,130 Par: 70
Defending: Carl Pettersson 259 (beat S. McCarron by 2)
Field: World Top 20: Lucas Glover (20) Other Notables: Fred Couples, John Daly, David Duval, Steve Elkington, Lee Janzen, Davis Love III & Corey Pavin.
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European PGA Tour: KLM Open
Site: Kennemer Golf & Country Club – Zandvoort, Netherlands
Yards: 6,626 Par: 70
Defending: Darren Clarke 264 (beat P. McGinley by 4)
Field: World Top 20: None Other Notables: Darren Clarke, James Kingston, Thomas Levet, Colin Montgomerie & Jose Maria Olazabal.
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Japan Tour: Kansai Open
Site: Takarazuka Golf Club (New course) – Hyogo, Japan
Yards: 6,694 Par: 72
Defending: New Event
Field: World Top 20: None Other Notables: Ryo Ishikawa, Toshi Izawa & Craig Parry.
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Sunshine Tour: Telkom PGA Pro-Am
Site: Centurion Country Club – Centurion, South Africa
Meters: 6,373 Par: 72
Defending: Merrick Bremner 200 (beat D. Lambert & J. Van Zyl by 1)
Field: World Top 20: None Other Notables: Desvondes Botes, Darren Fichardt, James Kamte, Hennie Otto & Des Terblanche.
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Champions Tour: JELD-WEN Tradition
Site: Crosswater Club at Sunriver – Sunriver, Oregon
Yards: 7,683 Par: 72
Defending: Fred Funk 269 (beat M. Goodes by 3)
Field: Ranked: The entire Charles Schwab Cup top 20 except Michael Allen (8) & Nick Price (10) Other Notables: Ben Crenshaw, Hale Irwin, Larry Nelson, Greg Norman, Jerry Pate, Gary Player, Tom Watson & Fuzzy Zoeller.
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Elsewhere...
JLPGA – CAT Ladies – Kanagawa, Japan
Futures – Turkey Hill Classic – Harrisburg, PA
Nationwide – Christmas in October – Overland Park, KS
Canadian – Desjardins Montreal Open – Montreal, Quebec
Euro Seniors – Scottish Senior Open – St Andrews, Scotland
THE WEEK IN REVIEW (8/10 - 8/16)
PGA Championship
Winner: Y.E. Yang 73-70-67-70 280 (beat T. Woods by 3)
Site: Hazeltine National Golf Club - Chaska, MN
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Asian Tour: Queens Cup
Winner: Chinnarat Phadungsil 66-65-70-67 268 (beat three players by 3)
Site: Santiburi Samui Country Club – Koh Samui, Thailand
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Sunshine Tour: Vodacom Origins of Golf Erinvale
Winner: Jaco Ahlers 64-71 135 (beat E. van den Berg in a playoff)
Site: Erinvale Golf Estate – Somerset West, South Africa
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Elsewhere...
JLPGA – NEC Karuizawa 72 – Chie Arimura 206 (Story)
Futures – iMPACT Classic – Lisa Meldrum 208 (Story)
Nationwide – Price Cutter Charity Championship – Justin Boli 267 (Story)
Euro Challenge – Trophee du Golf de Geneve – Julien Quesne 269 (Story)
THE WEEK AHEAD (8/10 - 8/16)
PGA Championship
Site: Hazeltine National Golf Club - Chaska, MN
Yards: 7,674 Par: 72
Defending: Padrig Harrington 277 (beat S. Garcia by 2)
Field: World Top 20: All except Robert Karlsson (18) Other Notables: All who are physically able.
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Asian Tour: Queens Cup
Site: Santiburi Samui Country Club – Koh Samui, Thailand
Yards: 6,824 Par: 72
Defending: New event.
Field: World Top 20: None Other Notables: Not many.
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Sunshine Tour: Vodacom Origins of Golf Erinvale
Site: Erinvale Golf Estate – Somerset West, South Africa
Yards: 7,087 Par: 72
Defending: Garth Mulroy 210 (beat R. Sterne by 4)
Field: World Top 20: None Other Notables: Not many.
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Elsewhere...
JLPGA – NEC Karuizawa 72 – Nagano, Japan
Futures – iMPACT Classic – Richmond, VA
Nationwide – Price Cutter Charity Championship – Springfield, MO
Euro Challenge – Trophee du Golf de Geneve – Geneva, Switzerland