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

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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS

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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS

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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS

Sunshine Tour:  Zambia Open

Winner: Jbe’ Kruger   69-68-67   204  (beat T. Moore by 3)
Site: Ndola Golf Club – Ndola, Zambia

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS

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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS

Champions Tour:  Boeing Classic

Winner: Loren Roberts   68-65-65   198   (beat M. O'Meara by 1)
Site: TPC Snoqualmie Ridge – Snoqualmie, WA

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS

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)

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

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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


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)

...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.

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

PGA Championship

Winner: Y.E. Yang 73-70-67-70   280   (beat T. Woods by 3)
Site: Hazeltine National Golf Club - Chaska, MN

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


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

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


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)

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

WGC – Bridgestone Invitational

Winner: Tiger Woods 68-70-65-65   268   (beat R. Allenby & P. Harrington by4)
Site: Firestone Country Club (South course) - Akron, OH

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


PGA Tour: Legends Reno-Tahoe Open

Winner: John Rollins 70-62-67-72   271   (beat M. Laird & J. Quinney by 3)
Site: Montreux Golf & Country Club - Reno, NV

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


Asian Tour: Worldwide Holdings Selangor Masters

Winner: Rick Kulacz 68-71-71-63   273   (beat K. Aphibarnrat by 1)
Site: Seri Selangor Golf Club – Dmansarah Indah, Malaysia

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


Sunshine Tour: Suncoast Classic

Winner: Louis de Jager 68-68-71   207   (beat C. Swanepoel by 2)
Site: Durban Country Club – Durban, South Africa

STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS


Elsewhere...
LET – S4C Wales Ladies Championship – Karen Stupples 276 (Story)
JLPGA – AXA Ladies – Momoko Ueda 205 (Story)
Futures – Falls Auto Group Classic – Mina Harigae 205 (Story)
Nationwide – Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open – Chris Tidland 268 (Story)
Euro Challenge – SK Golf Challenge – Nicolas Colsaerts 277 (Story)
Canadian - Roxul Jane Rogers Championship – Ryan Yip 278 (Story)
Euro Seniors – Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open – John Bland 199 (Story)

WGC – Bridgestone Invitational

Site: Firestone Country Club (South course) - Akron, OH
Yards: 7,400   Par: 70
Defending: Vijay Singh 270   (beat S. Appleby & L. Westwood by 1)
Field: World Top 20: All Except Robert Karlsson (18)   Other Notables: All other qualified players.

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PGA Tour: Legends Reno-Tahoe Open

Site: Montreux Golf & Country Club - Reno, NV
Yards: 7,472   Par: 72
Defending: Parker McLachlin 270   (beat B. Davis & J. Rollins by 7)
Field: World Top 20: None   Other Notables: Paul Azinger, Steve Elkington & Charl Schwartzel.

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Asian Tour: Worldwide Holdings Selangor Masters

Site: Seri Selangor Golf Club – Dmansarah Indah, Malaysia
Meters: 6,374   Par: 72
Defending: Ben Leong 269   (beat T. Jaidee by 1)
Field: World Top 20: None   Other Notables: James Kamte, Frankie Minoza, Seung-Yul Noh & Thaworn Wiratchant.

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Sunshine Tour: Suncoast Classic

Site: Durban Country Club – Durban, South Africa
Yards: 6,736   Par: 72
Defending: Jake Roos 210   (beat O. Sandys in a playoff)
Field: World Top 20: None   Other Notables: Desvonde Botes, Darren Fichardt & Anton Haig.

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Elsewhere...
LET – S4C Wales Ladies Championship – Harlech, Wales
JLPGA – AXA Ladies – Hokkaido, Japan
Futures – Falls Auto Group Classic – London, KY
Nationwide – Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open – Wichita, KS
Euro Challenge – SK Golf Challenge – Vanajanlinna, Finland
Canadian - Roxul Jane Rogers Championship – Milton, Ontario
Euro Seniors – Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open – Bad Ragaz, Switzerland