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TaylorMade Tour Burner Driver-A Dynamic Combination of Advanced Physics and Power

Engineered To Be A Bully

The new Taylor Made Tour Burner Driver features a dynamic combination of advanced physics and power. The Tour Burners top crown boasts a bigger more powerful base which has been deemed Dual Crown Technology. Take advantage of a deeper and lower center of gravity for unmatched forgiveness, control and Tour Power.

Engineered To Bomb Away

The new Taylor Made Tour Burner Driver gives the golfer the highest confidence thanks to an advanced physics design. Dual Crown Technology, Inverted Cone Technology and SuperFast Technology combine to give you the longest straightest shots you can hit with a driver. The Taylor Made Tour Burner is the very essence of power.

Features

* Dual crown and weighted power-base promote increased carry and distance
* Modern head shape promotes lower, deeper and precision-placed CG for higher launch angle and lower spin
* SuperFast Technology promotes increased swing speed, faster ball speed and added distance
* Inverted Cone Technology dramatically expands the portion of the clubface that delivers high COR for consistently longer drives on off-center hits
* SuperFast 60-gram shaft is exceptionally lightweight and stable to promote greater distance and accuracy

TaylorMade Tour Burner

Look and Feel

The Tour Burner features a triangular head shape, similar to that of the R7 CGB Max driver. Those of you who are married to the idea of playing a traditional shaped driver head, this triangular shape may be more appealing to you than the square heads on say the FT-i or Sumo 5900. The corners of the triangle are quite rounded, and at address it sets up very nice. I had no trouble with alignment and felt quite comfortable with the look. At address the dual crown is not very visible, as you can see in the address picture. So kudos to TaylorMade for adding even more technology to a driver, without creating a strange look at address. The dark color of the club itself is quite subdued and the sole of the club looks very classy. I really like the new big ‘B’ burner logo. Very understated.

The retail, non TP model, does sit a couple degrees closed, so if you are afraid of the left side of the course, this may be an issue for you. However, just about every retail driver these days sits closed to try and combat the dreaded slice that plagues so many weekend golfers. If your regular ball is a bit of a slice, the closed face may help you square the club up at impact a bit. If you freely release the club head, expect the occasional hook or look at the TP version of this club, which sits more square to open.

One other item of note, look wise, is the head cover for this club. I think it’s one of the coolest looking head covers I have seen for a driver in a while. These guys really know how to market a golf club. Of course, a head cover will do absolutely nothing for your golf game, but hey it looks pretty sweet in your golf bag!

Feel off the club face is very explosive. The last TaylorMade driver I played was the R7 425, which, while being smaller volume wise, had a similar explosive feel to it off the center of the face. The Tour Burner carries that feel further out from the center, so even hits slightly toward the toe or heel still feel like you have just launched a 300 yard bomb. TaylorMade always seems to get it right in this department. So it is not surprising that they continue to be the leader in number of drivers in play on the PGA Tour.

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How about Cleveland HiBore XLS Tour Driver ?

New for 2008 is the new Cleveland HiBore XLS Tour driver, which is aimed at the golfer in search of increased distance, workability, higher ball speed, and high launch angle.  I’ve been testing the new Cleveland HiBore XLS Tour driver (10.5* Regular Flex) for the past month and I’m quite pleased with the results and is a welcome addition to the already popular HiBore XL line of golf clubs.

Look and Feel

The first thing you’ll notice about the Cleveland HiBore XLS Tour driver is it has a more traditional compact pear shape, which is much smaller than a traditional looking 460 cc driver, and it also has a longer Tour length hosel. The design is based on precise PGA Tour specifications and Tour testing and feedback. The stock Fujikura 55 gram Fit-On M Gold regular flex shaft makes the club very easy to swing and lightweight. The face of the HiBore XLS Tour is opened 2 degrees and weighted at the toe to promote a fade based workability. The enhanced sweet spot of the face of the HiBore XLS is 17% larger than the HiBore XL, making it Cleveland’s largest ever and one of the biggest on the market. The HiBore XLS Tour also features the maximum USGA clubhead dimensions to push the MOI limit. 5300 MOI represents a 13% increase from the HiBore XL for control off the tee for straighter drives. Weight was added to the heel and toe in the form of “stability foils”, which create a higher MOI and more stable clubface. A really cool feature of the HiBore XLS Tour driver is the authenticity feature built into the toe of the club. The HiBore XLS toe graphics will change from white to yellow in daylight or UV conditions.

Performance

The sound the HiBore XLS Tour makes when you hit this club reminded me of the sound a baseball makes when you hit it with a aluminum bat, it did take a little time to get used to the sound. One of the things they did with the HiBore XLS Tour is open the clubface 2 degrees, and weighted the toe for fade based workability. Now I normally play a fade and the open face design really accentuated my fade, making my shots fade very severely. But after some alignment and swing adjustments, I was able to factor in the built fade bias of the clubface, which is quite nice. Cleveland has packed the HiBore XLS Tour driver with three technology features, that they claim give you higher ball speeds, optimal launch angle, and greater overall distance. One of those features is Distance Driven Geometry. What this means is they moved the weight lower and deeper in the clubhead, which creates an optimized center of gravity in the center of the face, resulting in optimal launch conditions and higher ball speeds for greater distance off the tee. In my tests, I did notice that my launch angle was much higher than with my Callaway BigBertha 360 driver and gave me more distance, but not as much as the TaylorMade Tour Burner driver I reviewed. The other technology utilized by the HiBore XLS Tour is Energy Transfer Core. This is basically an engineered system of thin, lightweight titanium spines that transfers energy to the ball to create more efficient transfer of energy from the club to the ball and create higher ball speeds. The higher ball speeds will give you greater distance and launch conditions that will increase your overall distance. The final piece of technology employed by the Cleveland HiBore XLS Tour, is Full Face Performance (FFP). Full Face Performacne is just the expansion of the sweet spot over a larger area of the face of the club, which gives you maximum ball speed for increased driving distance. Another bonus of the FFP “Hot Zone” is it gives you more forgiveness off of mishits. In my testing of the HiBore XLS Tour, I did notice that the larger sweet spot made it very easy to produce solid shots repeatedly, and even when not hit perfectly square, the shots went relatively straight and far.

Will this club give you the tour distance of Vijay Singh and Boo Weekly? No, but probably close enough to make you pleased to have this driver in the bag. If your looking for a club that is Tour tested, provides fade based workability, a large sweet spot, and stable on mishits, then checkout the Cleveland HiBore XL Tour Driver.

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TaylorMade Tour Burner Iron Set Left Handed only 9.99 in mygolfwholesale.com

The TaylorMade Golf Tour Burner Iron Set Left handed each have an offset inverted cone clubface that gives faster average ball speed and longer distance on shots due to the thin and fast 2.2 mm face. That revolutionary face offers increased c.o.r., and the cavity badge delivers a super satisfying feel and sound and a clean, classic look at the address.

TaylorMade is pitching the Tour Burner irons as clubs designed to appeal to all levels of golfer. The 2.2-millimeter thick clubface and Inverted Cone Technology, visible on the back of the clubhead, are intended to increase COR and deliver higher ball speeds and distance, along with forgiveness.

The backs also show heel and toe weights, and the sole is beveled along its trailing edge to increase playability from a variety of lies - making it play more like a thinner sole, TaylorMade says.

As for looks, the Tour Burner irons have a chrome-plated satin-buff finish and a “medium-thin” topline. The stock shafts are Burner 105 steel by True Temper, and the graphite Burner REAX 65.

The TaylorMade Tour Burner irons are available in 2 through 9, plus PW (46 degrees), sand wedge (55 degrees), attack wedge (50 degrees) and lob wedge (60 degrees). A 3-PW set will carry an MSRP of 0 with steel shafts, or ,040 with graphite shafts. Clubs will be available at retail beginning in April 2008.  

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For Left Handed golfers, now best time to get TaylorMade Tour Burner Iron Set Left Handed

For Left Handed golfers, now best time to get TaylorMade Tour Burner Iron Set Left Handed

TaylorMade Tour Burner Iron Set Left Handed on sale in discount golf clubs

For Left Handed golfers, now best time to get TaylorMade Tour Burner Iron Set Left Handed

The TaylorMade Golf Tour Burner Iron Set Left handed each have an offset inverted cone clubface that gives faster average ball speed and longer distance on shots due to the thin and fast 2.2 mm face. That revolutionary face offers increased c.o.r., and the cavity badge delivers a super satisfying feel and sound and a clean, classic look at the address.

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I recently switched my irons from entry level wilson irons (that had graphite shafts) to a set of TM Burner 09 steel shaft, reg flex irons. I tried several different brands around the same price range and the only thing i can say is WHERE HAVE THESE CLBS BEEN ALL MY LIFE!! Not only is it a huge benefit to be swinging steel shafts, but these clubs have such an amazing feel and sweet spot. The loft on all clubs is fantastic and the low COG really makes these clubs a delight to use. The really great thing is each iron has an individual spec to achieve different results. They aren’t just carbon copies of each other with different lofts.

For anyone who plays their game in the 80’s - 90’s and is looking to reduce some shots and get the ball more consistently on the right flight path, i can’t recommend any clus more highly. I also now have the burner 09 driver and the burner 3 Hybrid - both great clubs.

I never really believed the hype that the more you spend on clubs, the better your game will be. I always resided in the fact that if your a good swinger, you can play with anything. Thank god i realised that better clubs DO make a huge difference to your game, and taking the step from basic clubs to something half decent will actually help me achieve my goal handicap significantly.

Thanks TM - you just made yourselves a new customer, and a new golfer.

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Callaway golf cart bags are used by thousands of golfers all over the world. Callaway have one heck of a reputation for producing quality products and the Callaway cart bags are easily some of the best on the market, if not the best! As a company they are by far and away one of the biggest names in golf and have been for many years.

Callaway golf cart bags are used by many of the top pros on both the European and PGA professional golf tours. Most notably Phil Mickleson chooses to only use golf equipment made by Callaway which of course includes his Callaway cart bag. Phil Mickleson has always used Callaway golf gear and if it is good enough for him then it is good enough for everyone else that’s for sure! Callaway has helped Mickleson to many PGA tour victories and even to victory in the 2004 Masters, 2005 PGA Championship and the 2006 Masters.

If you are planning to buy a Callaway golf cart bag online then you should be able to get yourself a really good deal and make a considerable saving than if you bought it from your local professionals golf shop. There are some great golf stores out there which sell Callaway cart bags and if you know where the best ones are then you will get a great value new golf bag with no problems at all. A lot of places claim to have great prices on golf cart bags but most are a disappointment. However there are some which can offer you serious value for money!

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Windy Golfers and Windy Golf Psychology Blown Away at the PGA Championship

So, were you blown away by the golf at the 91st PGA Championship at Hazeltine this weekend? With 8 hours of TV coverage on Saturday and again on Sunday, I was just riveted to the screen and amazed by both the spectacle and the windy golf conditions. The TV commentators also contributed to the windy feeling with all their hot air and false hopes for a certain golfer named Tiger Woods. Didn’t they just love Y.E. Yang’s quote about how the odds against him beating Tiger must be 70 to 1, based on Tiger having just won his 70th PGA Tour event last week while he had won his first earlier this year.

Although I’ve never played there personally, I vividly remember Tony Jacklin telling me, and our other two playing partners at Brookmans Park Golf Club, all about Hazeltine’s challenges, just a week or so after his US Open win back there 1970. The course certainly seems to have got even harder and so more picturesque since Dave Hill’s scathing comment back then that “all it really lacks is 80 acres of corn and a few cows.”

Anyway, there I was watching the golf and really looking forward to the cut and thrust of another battle between Tiger Woods and Padraig Harrington over the weekend, with Padraig seemingly putting his demons from Firestone behind him and in the past. I was also hoping to see some heroics from the many contenders from Europe and to see a real return to form from the likes of Ernie Els and Vijay Singh. Given all the excitement, I almost forgot to watch out for all the golf psychology lessons that were blowing across the screen.

Now I’m sure that you watched most if not all of the weekend’s cut and thrust on TV or, if you’re really lucky, you were there in Minnesota to watch it for real. So I’m focussing here on the golf psychology of all that windy golf, windy golfers and, in my next article, all that windy putting from the likes of Lee Westwood, Vijay Singh, Ernie Els and many others.

Now I don’t want to take anything away from Y E Yang and his outstanding performance this week. It takes something really special to beat Tiger Woods from 2 shots behind on the final day in a major. It’s also worth noting that his final 2-under par 70 tied the low score of the day with just 2 other players. Having said all of that, what happened to Tiger?

Well I think I noticed the first real flaw that I’ve seen in Tiger’s amazingly strong mental game. It’s been staring me in the face for some time now, especially with his occasional bad results in the Open Championship. The problem is with the parts of golf he can’t control and, more importantly, predict. Here at Hazeltine, as so often at Open Championship venues, the players are faced with the uncertainty of a strong and swirling wind. The wind at the tee is blowing one way, the clouds are moving in another and the flag on the green is fluttering in yet another. Tiger can’t predict what will happen to his ball and, unlike his wonderful ball-striking, it’s out of his control. That’s what he doesn’t seem able to handle.

I was taken by the contrast between Tiger’s reaction to two particular shots during his last 9 holes on Sunday. Both were unlucky and neither resulted from a bad shot execution, but one really upset him and the other he accepted philosophically. The first shot was a flier hit with a six iron that flew way over the back of the green on one of the many long par 4s. You could tell that he was half expecting it as he quickly acknowledged what had happened and quietly and confidently played the next shot. His reaction suggested that he hadn’t accepted it as a bad shot, just an unlucky one.

The second one was his tee shot on the tough short 17th where he backed away several times as the wind swirled and changed direction. He looked panicked and more like a rabbit in the headlights than a tiger. Nevertheless, he used his golf psychology training and hit what looked, and probably felt, like a really good shot. The ball sailed over the flag and landed no more than a foot too long and nestled down in the rough. A foot shorter and it would probably have spun back towards the hole. Tiger almost collapsed and still didn’t appear his normal confident and resourceful self as he chipped out short from a difficult lie and missed the putt. It must be remembered that Tiger didn’t capitulate totally and Yang hit one of the best shots I’ve ever seen into the 18th green to close out his victory.

So what do I think was the real difference between those two shots of Tiger’s? Well, he seemed to accept the flier as just plain bad luck that could happen to anyone and he just got on with the short without hesitation - it was out of his control and he accepted it. However, he didn’t seem to accept the swirling wind in the same way and hesitated several times. For a golfer with such supreme ball control and the ball on a tee, he didn’t seem able to accept the possibility of plain bad luck. I recorded the final days play and watching it again I saw that same hesitation from Tiger on many of his shots, especially when he had a good lie.

So there’s a definite flaw in Tiger’s mental game when it comes to a variable or swirling wind. The bad news for everyone else is that once he recognises it, he has his own mental skills and the golf psychology skills of Jay Brunza to help him handle it.

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Tips To Getting The Best Golf Holiday In Scotland

When you’ve spend days in the office pulling long hours day to day seeing nothing more than the four walls of your office, then you know you’ve been working too hard. If you’re a man with a passion for golf, why not treat yourself and your family to a good golf holiday. You could spend some relaxing time on the green courses while your kids play in pools and play land and the ladies pamper themselves with spas or even join you on the course. So, what’s better than heading down to Scotland, the home of golf for a good vacation?

First, decide where in Scotland you’d like to go. There are tons of great courses to play on each with a different feel and scenery. You can have a good game on the greens in the highlands or hit Aberdeen and have a good game. Once you’ve picked a city or town, get a list of golfing courses available and see which appeals to you the best. Of course there’s the ever famous St. Andrews but there are many others to choose from as well.

Next, look online or check with travel agents for family golf holiday packages which would usually include accommodation, food and a few rounds of golf. Of course you would purchase all of these separately but usually packages are cheaper and you can often find good promotions a few times a year.

When you’ve settled with a place, check and see if there are golf tours available. As Scotland is the home of golf, there are plenty of golf courses to visit and learn about so if you’ve got the interest sign up for a tour and you’ll see places like St. Andrews, Muirfield and even the Royal Troon, all great courses that hold amazing golfing history.

So what are you waiting for, look out for great deals and make your reservations right away!

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Putting Psychology and Golf Hypnosis into Perspective at PGA Championship

Putting was clearly very difficult for all the players at Hazeltine in the 2009 PGA Championship, especially in terms of putting psychology. Now we all saw Tiger Woods missing a lot of mid-range putts that we’d normally expect him to see and I’ve already written about how those were the result of his uneasiness about the swirling wind. I’m more concerned here with a number of really crucial putts missed by Lee Westwood and the massive number of short putts missed by Vijay Singh.

In my humble opinion, Lee Westwood is striking the ball as well as he ever has, especially in the major championships. As a result, he keeps getting himself into contention in the last round before throwing away the opportunity in the last nine holes on Sunday. How many times did he miss apparently easy putts at Hazeltine, including a three putt from not much more than 3 feet? At the Open Championship we saw him three-putt the 72nd hole after recovering well from a few bad putts earlier in the round. The same sort of thing has plagued him for such a long time that it can’t just be coincidence and I keep reading about Lee working with golf psychologists, so it can’t be that; or can it?

Well, I’ve seen Lee’s name mentioned as a client of a number of high-profile golf psychologists here in the UK, like Dr Karl Morris and Jamil Qureshi, the official psychological performance coach for the European Ryder Cup team last year. I also noticed, in the Westwood Academy page on Lee’s website, that the list of sessions participants will receive includes psychology.

Imagine my surprise when I heard about Lee’s comments about golf psychologists in an interview at Hazeltine. “Look at them all,” he said, “They all look a bit odd, like they need to see somebody, I find it hard to take anybody like that seriously.” He continued by saying, “Well, they do. I’m sorry. That’s the way I see it. I’ve always felt mentally quite stable. Don’t feel like I need it.” He must have forgotten what he said in an interview at the PGA Championship 4 years earlier when he explained how he was using a golf psychologist to help him think a little bit clearer.

So Lee, if you aren’t using a golf psychologist, then perhaps you need one now. And if you are using one, maybe you need more help in that area.

So, taking my tongue firmly out of my cheek, I’ll move on quickly to Vijay Singh.

Vijay was majestic all through this year’s PGA Championship, as he almost always is, from tee to green. Sadly, trying lots of golf psychology tricks, doubtless including telling himself what a great putter he is, his putting was absolutely awful. In fact, if he’d putted in all four rounds as well as Tiger did on Sunday, he would have won by a street.

Now clearly Vijay is very strong psychologically and that shows through in his focus and belief in his long game. Any lesser mortal would be so overwhelmed by his psychological failure on the greens that they would lose their long game confidence as well. He’s also strong physically and we know how hard he works on his game. So why doesn’t someone help him to apply that psychological strength to his putting. I’m not a teaching pro and I can see that there’s nothing much physically wrong with his putting stroke, whichever length or style of putter he’s using.

So does Vijay make use of the services of a golf psychologist? Well, my research says yes. And it also says no! Yes, Vijay is a long term client of Dr Joseph Parent, the highly respected corporate speaker, PGA Tour instructor and best-selling author of “Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game.” He’s also often quoted in support of Dr Parent’s work.

On the other hand, in an interview at the 2009 Masters, when asked if he works with a sports psychologist, he responded “Not really. I can’t say I’ve actually worked with anyone.” He added, “I’ve worked with Joe Parent, who wrote Zen Golf, two or three years ago, but we kind of discussed - he probably learned some from me and I learned some from him. So it was kind of a give-and-take thing.”

I was also intrigued to find the marketing blurb about Dr Parent’s “Putting with Confidence” video and read the question, “Tired of missing short putts under pressure? Learn how to turn those “knee-knockers” into “tap ins” and never miss a three-footer again! Does your putting frustrate you?” I guess that Vijay ought to watch that video!

So far, the only golf psychology quote I’ve found from Vijay about putting suggests that he’s been using affirmations to convince himself that he’s the best putter. How exactly is that going to work when he consistently disproves that with his poor putting?

So what’s the solution for Lee Westwood and Vijay Singh? Normally, I’d recommend they see a golf psychologist. They already seem to be doing that and with highly respected and well qualified golf mind coaches. The problem appears to be that whatever they’re doing it’s not working automatically at the most critical time for these players. That means it’s not part of their unconscious habits and beliefs.

All three golf psychologists are very experienced with a wealth of wonderful golf psychology techniques to help their clients. So it looks to me like these clients are trying to implement the techniques consciously using will-power. If you’re a regular reader of my articles, you won’t be surprised to hear that I think that Lee and Vijay should be using hypnosis to install these ideas into their unconscious golf minds - as habits and beliefs.

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The name speaks for itself. The Hibore XL with its sleek black pearl finish is bigger, longer and straighter than the highly touted original HiBORE, taking “Distance Driven Geometry” to a whole new level.

Full Face Performance aligns Sweet Spot and C.O.R. Hot Spot, producing optimal launch conditions over a larger area of the face, allowing for efficient energy transfer that maximizes ball-speed across the entire face.

High Moment of Inertia (MOI) and deeper Center of Gravity (CG) provide increased stability on off-center hits, leading to greater distance and tighter shot dispersion over the entire face.

Distance Driven Geometry aligns the Center of Gravity Projection (CGP) with the hot spot in the center of the face, resulting in optimal launch conditions for greater overall distance.

Two Shaft Fitting System provides proper shaft fitting. Cleveland worked with Fujikura to create a two-shaft fitting system specifically designed to maximize the performance of HiBORE XL and XL Tour drivers.

LoftLengthSizeHandWomen’s              9.5° 45″ 460cc RH N   10.5° 45″ 460cc RH         N        

We congratulate Vijay Singh, the winner of the 2007 Mercedes-Benz Championship January 7th, 2007 in Kapalua, Hawaii.

With a 30th PGA TOUR win Vijay captured 2 milestones in his career.

17th player with 30 or more wins in PGA TOUR history.

18th title since turning 40 years old which broke the tour record for victories for men over 40.

Well done Vijay and may you have many more victories.

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2009 Memorable Stories in European Tour

0 Euros: The amount Danny Lee and Shane Lowry banked between them when winning the Johnnie Walker Classic and 3 Irish Open respectively. Both amateurs when they scored their maiden European Tour wins they subsequently turned pro and are slowly coming to terms with their new status.

Number one: Lee Westwood who won two of his last four starts of the season to clinch the Race to Dubai title. His consistency in the last half of the season was extraordinary: two wins, another three top three finishes and a total of 10 top nine finishes in 12 events from July.

Number Two: Rory McIlroy who in only his second full season of professional golf came so close to withstanding Westwood’s late charge for the number one spot. He topped and tailed his year nicely - four early top five finishes (including a maiden win in Dubai) started the season well and then he concluded with six top seven efforts in his final seven tournaments.

Three wins: Gregory Bourdy’s European Tour career total after claiming the Hong Kong Open in November. In doing so he became the first Frenchman to win in three consecutive seasons.

Four second place finishes: Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano’s 2009 season total. In April he was actually the runner-up for three tournaments on the trot: at the Estoril Open de Portugal, the China Open and the Ballantine’s Championship. He completed the unwanted but lucrative quartet in the Scottish Open at Loch Lomond.

Five matches: And a mammoth 126 holes was what it needed for Ross Fisher to claim the re-branded and re-located Volvo World Matchplay Championship. Using a Champions League style format, and moved from Wentworth to the Costa del Sol, it had some pros and some cons, but Fisher loved every second of it. He defeated Anthony Kim 4&3 in the final to claim the 750,000 Euro cheque for first place.

Six stroke victory: The largest winning margin of the season claimed by three players - Argentina’s Daniel Vancsik trounced the field in the Italian Open at Royal Park I Roveri, Sweden’s Christian Nilsson did the same when collecting the St Omer Open in June and - most impressively of all - Westwood did the same to the elite field in the Dubai World Championship on the final weekend of the season.

Double bogey seven: Oskar Henningsson’s score on his first hole in the Moravia Silesia Open. 71 holes later he was crowned champion, completing the transformation from Nordic League nobody to European Tour winner in less than 12 months. The Swede had become the first player to win all three stages of Q-school at the end of 2008 before his maiden tour win came, fittingly, at the Prosper Golf Resort.

8 under par for 8 holes: The best eagle/birdie streak of the year came from Spain’s Jose Manuel Lara. At the Moravia Silesia Open one eagle and six birdies allowed him to play seven holes (from the seventh) in eight under par.

9-iron: The club Argentina’s Ricardo Gonzalez hit from trouble on the final hole of the SAS Masters at Barseback. It was the shot of the season: having blasted his tee-shot through the dog-leg he was left in the rough, with trees blocking his view of the green. The conservative approach seemed obvious but he thrashed at the ball with the 9-iron, the ball soared above the trees and implausibly it landed it like a butterfly, a mere five feet from the flag.

10 players under par: At the end of the Ballantine’s Championship on Jeju Island in April. The conditions all week were horrendous - viciously windy and wet - and in the third round only Frenchman Francois Delamontagne was able to break par (and only 11 players signed for less than 76!). Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee eventually prevailed after a three-man play-off.

11 under par: Rafael Cabrera Bello’s score when shooting a remarkable final round of 60 to win the Austrian Golf Open in September. He even had a 30-foot putt for eagle (and a 59) on the final green but settled for the 60 which helped him turn an eight shot deficit after 54 holes into a one-shot victory over Benn Barham.

12 years: The gap between Michael Jonzon’s first European Tour win and his second. The Swede finally claimed October’s Castello Masters by holing an 18-foot birdie putt on the 72nd green after having lost three shots to par on the previous three holes.

13 shots difference: Between Christian Cevaer’s final score in the 2009 European Open at the London GC and Ross Fisher’s winning total at the same venue 12 months earlier. It was a remarkable win for the Frenchman. Everyone agreed that the winner needed to be a long-hitter and yet the shortest driver of the week ground the big men down!

14 strokes: the number Stewart Cink needed to complete the four-hole play-off in the Open Championship at Turnberry. It was six shots less than Tom Watson required. Watson had defied Father Time for 72 holes, playing more like a 29-year-old than a 59-year-old. In extra time he aged visibly and played like a 69-year-old. Few said as much - there was so much else to say - but it actually put his 72-hole effort into perspective and made it all the more extraordinary.

15th lead after three rounds of a major: Is what the 2009 PGA Championship was for Tiger Woods. On every previous occasion - all 14 of them - Woods had won the tournament but Korea’s YE Yang stunned the world number one - and the world too. Not only did he do something no-one else had done but he did it in style: playing alongside Woods and beating him by five shots to earn a three-shot tournament victory.

16 rounds: Is all it took for 20-year-old Tano Goya to collect victory in his rookie year on tour. He played three times in South Africa, returned home to Argentina, warmed up with a start in Mexico on the PGA Tour and then won the Madeira Island Open at Porto Santo - only his fourth start of the European Tour season (and only his sixth start at that level).

17-under-par: The most common winning score of the season. Six winners completed their week on that figure: Richard Sterne (Alfred Dunhill Championship), Anthony Kang (Maybank Malaysian Open), Danny Lee (Johnnie Walker Classic), Shane Lowry (3 Irish Open), Paul Casey (BMW PGA Championship) and Phil Mickelson (HSBC Champions).

18 greens in regulation: The number Ross McGowan posted in his second round 66 during the Madrid Masters in October. Ironically next day he missed more greens and shot 60. His long game was imperious all week and, together with a putter purchased on Ebay (the same model he used as a junior), it produced a week of stunning golf to complete a highly impressive maiden European Tour win. 

2009’s First-time Winners

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