European PGA Tour:  Austrian Golf Open

Winner: Rafael Cabrera-Bello   71-67-66-60   264   (beat B. Barham by 1)
Site: Fontana Golf Club – Vienna, Austria
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
Japan Tour:  ANA Open

Winner: Toru Taniguchi   67-67-66-72   272   (beat three players by 4)
Site: Sapporo Golf Club (Watsu course) – Hokkaido, Japan
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
Sunshine Tour:  Vodacom Origins of Golf - Selborne

Winner: Darren Fichardt   65-66-67   198   (beat J. Kruger & K. Davidse by 7)
Site: Selborne Hotel Spa & Golf Estate – Selborne, South Africa
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
LPGA Tour:  Samsung World Championship

Winner: Na Yeon Choi   71-67-63-71   272   (beat A. Miyazato by 1)
Site: Torrey Pines Golf Course – San Diego, CA
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
Champions Tour:  Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn

Winner: Jay Haas   62-71-65   198   (beat A. Bean & R. Cochran by 2)
Site: Rock Barn Golf & Spa – Conover, NC
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
Elsewhere…
LET - Randstad Open de France – Nicole Gergely  275  (Story)
JLPGA – Tokai Classic – Sakura Yokomine  199  (Story)
Nationwide – Albertsons Boise Open – Fran Quinn  270  (Story)
Euro Challenge – Kazakhstan Open – Edoardo Molinari  268  (Story)
Euro Seniors – Casa Serena Open – Peter Mitchell  200  (Story)

European PGA Tour:  Austrian Golf Open

Site: Fontana Golf Club – Vienna, Austria
Yards: 7,066     Par: 71
Defending: Unofficial Event
Field:   World Top 20: None.  
 
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Japan Tour:  ANA Open

Site: Sapporo Golf Club (Watsu course) – Hokkaidop, Japan
Yards: 7,063     Par: 71
Defending: Azuma Yano 273   (beat T. Muto & T. Nakajima by 4)
Field:   World Top 20: None.   
 
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Sunshine Tour:  Vodacom Origins of Golf - Selborne

Site: Selborne Hotel Spa & Golf Estate – Selborne, South Africa
Yards: 6,607     Par: 72
Defending: Jean Hugo 203   (beat B. Vaughn by 2)
Field:   World Top 20: None.   
 
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LPGA Tour:  Samsung World Championship

Site: Torrey Pines Golf Course – San Diego, VA
Yards: 6,542     Par: 72
Defending: Paula Creamer 279   (beat S.H. Kim by 1)
Field:   World Top 20: The entire Rolex top 20 except Helen Alfredsson (12), Michelle Wie (19) & Seon-Hwa Lee (20).   
 
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Champions Tour:  Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn

Site: Rock Barn Golf & Spa – Conover, NC
Yards: 7,046     Par: 72
Defending: R.W. Eaks 200   (beat T. Jenkins & T. Kite by 4)
Field:   Ranked: The entire Charles Schwab Cup top 20 except Loren Roberts (2), Bernhard Langer (3), Mark O’Meara (6), Michael Allen (11), Tom Lehman (14) & Tom Watson (19). 
 
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Elsewhere…
LET - Randstad Open de France – Pas de Calais, France
JLPGA – Tokai Classic – Aichi, Japan
Nationwide – Albertsons Boise Open – Boise, ID
Euro Challenge – Kazakhstan Open – Almaty, Kazakhstan
Euro Seniors – Casa Serena Open – Prague, Czech Republic

PGA Tour:  BMW Championship

Winner: Tiger Woods   68-67-62-68   265   (beat J. Furyk & M. Leishman by 8)
Site: Cog Hill G&CC (No.4 course)  -  Lemont, IL
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
European PGA Tour:  Mercedes-Benz Championship

Winner: James Kingston   67-69-70-69   275   (beat A. Hensen in a playoff)
Site: GC Gut Larchenhof  -  Cologne, Germany
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
Asian Tour:  Macau Open

Winner: Thaworn Wiratchant   67-68-66-68   269   (beat G. Bhullar by 6)
Site: Macau G&CC  -  Coloane, Macau
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
LPGA Tour:  P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship

Winner: Jiyai Shin   70-70-64   204   (beat A. Stanford & S.Y. Yoo in a playoff)
Site: Pinnacle Country Club – Rogers, AR
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
Elsewhere…
LET – UNIQA Ladies Open – Linda Wessberg  279  (Story)
JLPGA – Japan LPGA Championship – Shinobu Moromizato  282  (Story)
Nationwide – Utah Championship – Josh Teater  264  (Story)
Euro Challenge – Dutch Futures – Nicolas Colsaerts  271  (Story)

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

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
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
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
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
Japan Tour:  Fujisankei Classic

Winner: Ryo Ishikawa   69-65-68-70   272   (beat D. Maruyama by 5)
Site: Fujizakura Country Club – Yamanashi, Japan
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
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
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
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
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
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
 
STORY          RESULT          MONEY LIST          STATS          INTERVIEWS
 
 
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)

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.