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Our cover story this issue features a teaching professional new to the pages of Golf

International but certainly not to the demands of standing in front of a camera and

getting his message across. Scott Cranfield has forged a career through a desire to

understand the bigger picture as to what it takes to learn to play better golf and he

makes a sharp debut with a highly visual lesson designed to get you thinking more

about what the club should be doing and less about what it actually takes to make

that happen. The delivery is polished, the knowledge behind the reasoning consider-

able; not for nothing was he made a Master PGA Professional in June this year.

The impact of the lesson – which runs from page 60 – is all the more forceful for the

quality of the photographs Kevin Murray was able to produce on what was a (rather

typical of this summer) pretty dank, grey and blustery August(!) afternoon. Truth be

told, I was not all that far way from calling off the shoot and repairing inside to the

warmth and comfort of the London Club’s snug, where we could busy ourselves with

at least talking a good game. Murray saw things a little differently. Rigging a couple

of flash units on an exposed tee the surreal studio-like results represented a feat of

considerable skill and creativity – we had pros on either side of the lens.

Regular readers will appreciate that instruction is a mainstay of the magazine’s edito-

rial and I am delighted to announce that from the next issue Sir Nick Faldo will once

again be a regular fixture with lessons aimed at helping juniors get the most out of

their games – indeed the lessons feature the stars of the 2011 Faldo Series and were

shot on location at Lough Erne during the recent Grand Finals.

Hard to believe it is now over 16 years since I worked with Nick on his book A Swing

for Life. Time spent with the six-time major champion in distilling his thoughts and

exploring the techniques he applied to his own game provided a privileged insight to

the abilities of someone who truly mastered his art. The majority of the juniors who

each year compete for the title of Faldo Series Champion can perhaps be forgiven for

not realising just how lucky they are to be given the opportunity to learn from one of

the game’s greatest thinkers. But for those of us old enough to remember Faldo’s first

major victory as clearly as we do his last, the chance to listen to and learn from one of

the true greats is golfing gold.

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Essential readingfrom the best in the game

12 LeTTersdo you have an opinion you’d like to share? Whynot email us? You could win the latest footJoyshoes and wind-shirts

17 PLAneT GOLfPerfect swiss timing: a treat on the banks ofLake Geneva with Audemars Piguet ambassadorsdarren Clarke and Miguel Angel Jimenez...Latestequipment news with Gi’s dominic Pedler... Chi-Power Golf...more advice from dr felix shank... 2-Minute Lesson - nick Bradley...The Leuka MiniMasters... Major!..divots...next issue

86 THe AMATeur sCeneAfter six years at the helm of the eGu’s eliteTraining programme, Peter Mattsson is leaving toreturn to his native sweden. Adam Hathawayreflects on his legacy. Plus we bring you a round-up of the very latest amateur tournament news,while Colin Callander reflects on HarrisonGreenbury’s success in the Boys’ at Burnham

154 WOrLd TOurnAMenT neWsAndy Farrell has all the latest news from theworld of professional tournament golf, includingkeegan Bradley’s history-making victory in the usPGA , Thomas Bjorn’s fast start to the ryder Cupqualifying season and Yani Tseng’s continueddominance in the women’s game with her BritishOpen win at Carnoustie. Plus our regular round-upof results, stats and money-lists

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130 rOYAL & MOdernThe fairmont st Andrews resort adds a new dimension to your visit to the Home of Golf –not to mention glorious championship golf of its own from its enviable perch overlooking the ‘Old Grey Toun’. Dominic Pedler reports

136 nOrTHern LIGHTsIf you found yourself inspired by images of the2011 Walker Cup matches at royal Aberdeenthen pay attention as Mark Alexander revealswhat other great golf awaits in the vicinity of theGranite City

142 YOur GOLf TrAVeLIn association with our travel partners at YourGolf Travel our showcase destinations this issueinclude Portugal’s dona filipa resort and theGrand dame of scotland, Gleneagles. There arealso details on how you can save money on your2012 golf package

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54 CAPTAIn AMerICAJohn Hopkins found America’s ryder Cup captain davis Love in relaxed and talkative mood when he sat down with him during the recent us PGA Championship in Atlanta

74 PLAY IT BY THe BOOkThe rules of Golf are complicated – that muchwe do know. And without a solid grounding inthe laws governing the game it’s all too easy tofall foul of a specific rule in general play. PGArules Panel member Ashley Weller highlightssome of the more common mistakes andexplains the correct procedure in each example

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6 fIrsT uPeditor Richard Simmons tees up the new issue

40 And AnOTHer THInG...There’s an Olympic decision looming for some,while decision makers elsewhere may well berueing their own legislation, writes Robert Green

42 On THe AIrPeter Alliss laments the passing of his greatfriend and BBC colleague, Alex Hay

44 19TH HOLeThere’s much strategy required to hatch a golftrip with the lads – and Clive Agran is a master

46 BeTTInGAnd so the race is on to qualify automatically forJose Marie Olazabal’s ryder Cup team.Jeremy Chapman reports

162 THe LAsT sHOTWhere next for the former world no. 1 TigerWoods? John Hopkins ponders a number ofpossible scenarios

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114 MeMOrABILIAGi’s Kevin McGimpsey identifiesand values more of your golfingephemera

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Feel it in your fingersNick Bradley's book The 7 Laws of the Golf Swing became

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related to the swing. Here, the man who took Justin rose

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PERFECT SWISS TIMING

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At royal st George’s his swing ran like clock-

work – hardly surprising, then, that Open

Champion darren Clarke was quick to nominate

his Audemars Piguet royal Oak Tourbillon

Chronograph in a personal Top-10 of the finest

Things in Golf. for the watch-techies among you

Clarke wore a specially designed ultra-lightweight

prototype titanium royal Oak on the course all four

days at sandwich – as did fellow AP ambassadors

rory McIlroy, Lee Westwood and Miguel Angel

Jimenez. Guests of the luxury watchmaker

enjoyed the company of two of golf’s great

characters in switzerland, where the quick-witted

banter matched the quality of the shot-making.

Timing, naturally, was of the essence.

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DARREN & JIMMY // 2-MINUTE LESSON - NICK BRADLEY // DR FELIX SHANK // NEW GEAR // THE MAJO

DC: “Let me kick this all off by saying

that when you watch pros warm up

you may notice that we usually start

with the short irons and gradually

work up through the bag – I’ll go lob

wedge, then 9-iron, 7-iron and 5-iron

and so on. And the one thing you will

notice more than anything when you

watch good players hit balls – one of

the key things you can learn – is the

balance they maintain on every shot.

Look at Miguel here in action – not at

all bad for an old man. And you can

see how simple he keeps it all – there

is no real lateral movement, no sway-

ing off the ball or towards the target.

The most important thing in the

swing is to keep your balance intact.

A good golf swing is a turn back with

the shoulders and a turn through

again to face the target. There is not

this random lateral movement off the

ball that you tend to see so many

amateur players struggle with. If you

lose balance you lose posture angles

and the club is destined to approach

the ball at a different angle & direc-

tion – you strike the ball inconsistent-

ly.

“Miguel has changed clubs two or

three times while I’ve been rattling on

up here but have you really noticed

much change in the swing? No. We

use the same swing through the bag.

It’s the same motion, same thoughts,

same basics. The clubshaft gets a little

longer and because of that the swing

becomes a little longer as you go

through the set, obviously. But that is

an automatic development, not a con-

cious effort on our part.

“Anyone have any questions or is

planet golf ON THE LESSON TEE WITH DARREN & MIGUELplanet golf

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There are corporate days and there are corporate days – andfor clients and distributors of Swiss master watchmakerAudemars Piguet, the inaugural European Grand Final at Golf& Country Club de Bonmont – situated at the foot of the Juramountains with sweep views across Lake Geneva to MontBlanc – was clearly in the latter category. AP ambassadorsDarren Clarke and Miguel Angel Jimenez entertained guestswith a repertoire of shots as they shared some of their tradesecrets and answered questions. Editor Richard Simmonswas there to record procedings for prosperity.

ON THE PRACTICE TEE WITH

DARREN & MIGUEL

that all far too easy so far?

[Silence]. “It should be easy! The

fact is most amateurs make the game

a lot more difficult than it should be.

There is this tendency to want to

throw yourselves at the ball when all

you have to do is focus on making

this turn back and turn through.

“Notice that Miguel is hitting down

on the ball. That’s how you compress

the ball and get the desired ball-then-

turf strike, which is the key to impart-

ing the spin that keeps the ball in the

air and under control. Make the mis-

take of trying to hit up on the ball

and you will always struggle – you’ll

hit the big ball before the little ball, as

my dad used to tell me.

Miguel Angel Jimenez: “What is it

that you think is in control of and

influences the clubface?

“Anybody know? It is the hands. At

the moment of impact you want the

palm of your right hand square with

the clubface and the back of the left

hand to the target – it really doesn’t

matter how you make the swing. Try

this the next time you play; this is

why it is so important that you place

your hands on the club correctly.

“All that Darren says about balance

is very important. The relationship

between the clubface and the hands,

well, that is one of the secrets to good

golf. If you turn nicely and allow your

arms to swing freely you will make a

good golf swing. I don’t like to make it

complicated. If you adopt a strong

grip, with the right hand turned to the

right (i.e. underneath the grip), look

what happens when the hands return

to impact – as they naturally square to

the path of the swing the clubface is

closed down and the ball goes left. If

you have a weak grip you will leave

the clubface open. So, the grip is the

basic that will influence the clubface

in the golf swing. Simple, no?”

DC: “A quick question for you: how

much time do you think we spend

hitting balls on the range and how

much do we spend working on the

short game?

“The answer is going to surprise

you: we spend the vast majority of

our time chipping and putting. I’d say

it’s 90% short game. We go to the

range to loosen up and figure out

what we’re doing with our swing that

day. We spend the rest of the time

chipping and putting. Even when

Tiger was playing his best golf, I think

he was averaging something like 12.9

greens a round in regulation – and yet

still shooting those ridiculous scores.

We all tend to think that the best

players hit every fairway and every

green – they don’t. We rely on the

short game to save the mistakes we

make in the long game.

Q: How do you get backspin?

DC: “You have to have a crisp, clean

strike to control the spin. But you

know, while amateurs are obsessed

with backspin, most of the time we

don’t want too much backspin. We play

shots where we are trying to take the

spin off the ball. If the ball is spinning

back on the green on approach shots

it’s out of control.”

Q. How do you adjust the flight of the

ball, to hit high shots and low shots?

DC: “Good question – and I’m going

to surprise you with the simplicity of

the answer. All I do to hit it low or

high is adjust the ball position. I make

the same swing. Trajectory is con-

trolled by where the ball is positioned

within your stance. Move it a little

back and your hands are ahead of the

clubface, you deloft it and the ball

flies lower (I may play this shot with

more of a cut-off follow through);

move it forward and your hands are a

little behind the ball, adds effective

loft at impact.

“Let me hit a couple of drivers. As

you will see , I’m not swaying either

this way or that way – I’m turning

away from and then towards the tar-

get. If I want to hit it lower I move the

ball back towards the middle of my

stance, for a higher drive it moves for-

ward. I relied heavily on the low shot

at Royal St George’s.

“In fact my favourite shot is proba-

bly a driver off the deck. I grew up


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Jimenez share in a

masterclass

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planet golf

Try this hands-on (and thumbs-off!) drill to get a real sense of

the way encouraging ‘lag’ in your swing unlocks your potential

for generating clubhead speed. By Nick Bradley

Feel it in your fingers

Return to your set-upposition, with a regulargrip, and then rehearseyour first move to thispoint, again lifting boththumbs up off the shaftas your hands reachwaist high. Bounce theclub a few times, thenrepeat

Start with your regular grip,then lift both thumbs rightup off the shaft – immedi-ately the club should feelheavy in your hands


If you could distil the ingredients of greatball striking with an iron in your hand itwould probably come down to two ele-ments; lag and speed. You see, lag hasthe ability to produce a great angle ofattack with an iron, complimented by theadded bonus of increased clubheadspeed.

Hands up who doesn’t want to hit itbetter and hit it farther?

Lag is often a mystical concept in golf –many golfers have tried to create ‘lag’ or a‘late hit’ position only to find themselveseven slower through the ball than before.Lag is not a static position, in fact it’s prob-ably the least static and slow position wecan have during the swing due to itsdynamic forces. The moment you try toreplace ‘motion’ with ‘position’ you general-ly kill speed!

Lag is nothing more than the increasingof the club’s swingweight through angularmomentum. That sounds like a mouthful butessentially all this means is the wrists cockor flex a little more during the downswingdue to the pulling weight of the club. All wedo to lag the club is to allow this sense of‘heaviness’ to happen through the pliabilityof the wrists – yes they must feel soft andreceptive to a dynamic change of directionin which the club feels really heavy.

Heighten the sense in your fingersThis drill (illustrated in the sequence alongthe top of these pages) is going to giveyou that sense of weight, change of direc-tion and speed.

The way to get this message through isto first take your regular grip; you are thengoing to lift both thumb pads off of thegrip just as you see in this close-up picture(1). As you do this you will immediatelygain a sense of the handle of the clubincreasing its weight into the fingers(which is why you should grip the handlethere – i.e. low in the fingers – to beginwith!).

Take the time to get used to this denseheaviness, a feeling I doubt you would

ever of had if you have been guilty of cast-ing the club. Let the grip end bounce a lit-tle in your fingers as if somebody hadasked you, ‘How much do you think thatweighs?’ Only now will you begin to createthe right feelings.

Thumbs off in motion – and repeatThe trick to this is plenty of practiceswings and rehearsals! Start to make abackswing but keep the thumb pads off ofthe grip handle until you reach the top ofyour swing and initiate the change ofdirection. When you sense your down-swing has started let the handle of theclub drop back onto the thumb pads; asthis happens time and time again you willstart to pick up on the rhythm and thephysiology needed to create lag.

Lose control to gain control...What do I mean by physiology? Any golferI have ever seen in my 20-year career thathas created little in the way of lag alwaysdemonstrated a tightness in the handsthat severely altered the bodies ability tocreate lag and this extra angle into theball. The most common example can befound with lady golfers who grip the clubtightly to support its weight and motionbut in doing so kill the swings ability tocreate leverage.

The paradox is that if you want lag,speed and distance you have to ‘let go’ ofcontrol (CEO’s and CFO’s take note!) andgive the club a little life of its own; let itbounce a little and have some motion!

So, I want you doing this time and timeagain: ‘thumbs off…thumbs on’…..’thumbs off….thumbs on’.

When you feel you have that down justclip a few half shots away trying to repli-cate that same softness the hands duringthe drill. you will be amazed at the pop theball seems to now as it leaves the face.

So, whenever there’s a lack of fizz fromthe ball and your strike pattern hasbecome a little ‘uncompressed’ go back to‘thumbs off, thumbs on’. In a short time

THUMBS OFF THUMBS ON - FOR EXTRA LAG AND SPEED

Keep the thumbs upoff the shaft until youchange direction andfeel the club drop aslag is created

Improving your fluidityand ‘lag’ will help younot only to generateclubhead speed but itwill improve your ball-turf strike

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Down the LinewıthAdamScott

Analysis by Denis PughPHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID CANNON / GETTYIMAGES.COM

For many commentators AdamScott’s golf swing could well bethe blueprint for the modern era.The posture, the angles, the lineand the rhythm... all fantastic.Now just into his 30s, Adam isstill only a young man but he hasbeen around for a long time andhas a ton of experience. He’s aplayer all of us expected to moveup to a major level and with thepartnership he has forged withTiger’s ex-caddie, StevieWilliams, that transition wouldnow seem inevitable. The winning structure comesfrom managing himself and hisgame on the golf course andthat’s where Stevie – an excellentmotivator – has been helpinghim. Adam once had a tendencyto get down and despondentwhen things were not going hisway; Williams does not let thathappen. He has the ability toinstill in his players a firm beliefas to how good they are – andAdam Scott is world-class inevery department.

‘BODY SPRING’Key to speed iscoil and release

INSTRUCTION ADAM SCOTT


My general appraisal of AdamScott’s swing would be that’s it’sbeen a job in progress for 10years – and right now probablybetter than its ever been. Adamhas worked extensively with mySky Sports colleague, ButchHarmon, and, more recentlywith his brother-in-law BradMalone (albeit on the methods Iknow Butch would endorse).

The thing I notice most of allin this terrific mid-iron sequenceis the way in which (from a per-fect set of posture angles) hisarm plane now is a little shallow-er than it used to be while hiswrist plane is definitely flatter;the shaft looks more under con-trol at the top. To me, the swingis tighter and shorter than itused to be but it hasn’t lost anyof its beautiful rhythm.

Tempting though it is tospend time analysing the planeof this swing, more valuable toyou in terms of learning a moredynamic technique is to focuson what I term the ‘bodyspring’ – i.e. the way he utilisesthe lower body from the holdingposition as he changes directionto the ultra-fast rotation of thehips through the ball.

Pay particular attention to theway in which the right kneestays in position in the back-swing, acting as a ‘post’ aboutwhich Adam turns and windsthe spring. Note also that there

Tremendous rotationof the hips (the ‘bodyspring’) is the key toAdam’s power throughimpact – note thehands are passive

Note the position ofthe right knee, stabilis-ing and resisting therotation of the upperbody into the back-swing. Left arm is infront of the body, so heis able to swing theclub freely up

Perfect set upangles –and noticethrough the sequencehow well Adam main-tains his height

Knees are holdingthe body positionbeautifully as Adamallows the club tofall unhurried intothe delivery position

One of golf’s great motivators,caddie Stevie Williams has hadan immediate impact on AdamScott’s fortunes in world golf –including victory at Akron (right)

ANALYSIS / DENIS PUGH


is very little movement in the leftknee – he doesn’t allow the leftknee to jump about all over theplace, it’s a very stable left kneeaction).

Moving to the transition anddownswing, focus on the man-ner in which Adam effortlesslyreverses momentum from thetop to halfway down; betweenframes 4-5 there is a significantshift across in the knees – theyhave changed position and set-tled the lower body – while thethe shoulders are held for a splitsecond. As he moves into thenext frame (6), we can see thetremendous rotational spin ofthe hips through impact. Thehands and clubface are passiveas the body spring essentiallyunloads the speed and poweron the back of the ball.

Through to frames 7 & 8 wecan see how the unwindingbody turn simply carries thearm swing into the finish.

So a very good example ofhow the body loads the leversthrough the ball, which explainsAdam’s consistency. Blessedwith the fact that he has suchan athletic build, the length ofhis arms in the swing gives himterrific leverage while the athleti-cism and spring in his bodygives him excellent power.

For me, the impact positionis the pick of the images in thissequence – as it should be. Youcan see how much hip-to-shoulder rotation there isthrough the ball. The momen-tum of the swing then sees theright arm climbing over the lefton the way to the finish. That’s anatural feature of this swing,while the finish is simply theresult of a great sequence ofmovement.

This is not a position youshould try to pose, incidentally.If it happens that you finish yourswing like this, great. But youare better off copying picture1 – the perfect example of howto set up to the ball and createa great set of body angles.

Hands perfectly in themiddle of the ster-num – wrists hingethe club up so theshaft cuts throughthe right shoulder

Left arm has nowtravelled up andacross the rib cageto a great positionat the top, on to theplane of the turningright shoulder

Adam’s classic fol-low through pose isthe result of all thegood moves thatwwent before

Right had/forearmclimbs over the leftas the club exitsinto the follow-through

FEATURE DAVIS LOVE III


Ryder Cup captaincy would seem to be agreeing

with Davis Love III – since he accepted the role in

January he has been playing some of the best

golf of his career. In a far-reaching interview with

John Hopkins during the US PGA Championship

in Atlanta, Love stops short of including himself in

the likely squad but reveals enough to suggest he

will be a wily opponent in 12 months’ time

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THERE IS SOMETHING DISTINCTIvE ABOuT DAvIS LOvE III.It is not the Roman numerals at the end of his name

nor that he is tall, with the legs of a stork and a

jerky walk and a slightly aloof manner. It is that

Love, the 1997 uSPGA champion is a member of uS

golf’s aristocracy, the son of a popular club profes-

sional who often went to the expense and effort of

travelling to Britain to compete in the Open. Davis

Love is the face of Ralph Lauren, a multi millionaire

who loves boys’ toys, and who at 47 is not only one

of the longest hitters in the world but one of the

best with 20 victories on the PGA Tour to his name.

And in a year he will lead his uS team into action at

the Ryder Cup at Medinah, Chicago.

For an American, Davis Love is strikingly British in

much the same way as are Tom Watson or Ben

Crenshaw. Just as Watson understands warm beer

and driving on the left and that the rhythms and rit-

uals of another country have to be experienced to be

appreciated, so Love understands the appeal of hav-

ing to hit a 3-iron from a bare lie 190 yards into the

teeth of a nor-wester while rain is dribbling down

the back of his neck, the grip of his club is sodden

and knowing that the water in the showers in the

locker room of the clubhouse will probably be cold

when he eventually gets there.

Love gets the Walker Cup in a way few modern

professionals get it. He competed in it, watches it

and a lifelong affair with the biennial competition

would only be completed if Dru, his 18-year-old son

were to play in it and Davis could caddy

for him. “I have a sense of history,”

Love said. “Those kind of competi-

tions are what makes our sport

so great. Competitions that

aren’t for eight million dol-

Big hitter: Davis Love III is not only one ofthe game’s great drivers of the ball but isshaping up to be a great leader of men ashe lays the strategy for America to reclaimthe Ryder Cup next September

CAPTAINAMERICA


AMERICA


Welcome to what I hope you’re going to find is an enlightening introduction to the golfswing as I have taught it to students now for over 25 years, an approach I call “LinkingMind & Body”. This approach is based on true laws of how the human mind and bodyfunction, which means that when applied to the way you work on your golf swing it willfeel natural and uncomplicated – and, most important of all, repeatable!

This is a user-friendly guide to getting the most out of your game based onresearch that has been proven through the ages. Over the following pages I will intro-duce you to the concept I call the Cranfield Golf Academy (CGA) Circle Swing –whenever I am looking at a golf swing from a technical perspective this is theapproach I use. In essence I see the golf swing as three circles (1) the circle traced bythe clubhead; (2) the circle traced by the hands and (3) the body rotation circle. Overthe pages I will show you how to bring these 3 circles into perfect harmony thus provid-ing you not only with consistent timing but also great mechanics to hit solid shots – thereal ‘win’ here being that it will feel natural (i.e. no complicated swing thoughts!).

A big factor to why the Circle Swing concept works is that it encourages you to adapt toan external focus (more on this later) which enables your body to move subconsciously, exactly

the way nature intended. With your mind focused on the circle concept I think/hopeyou might be surprised at how well your body responds with perfect

mechanics, which in turn might lead on to your biggest challengeyet – playing without a long list of swing thoughts! If your

brain is conditioned to having traditional swingthoughts you will have to let go of these and learnto trust your subconscious. This can be quitea challenge – but a rewarding one.

At the end of the feature you will finda handful of Faults ‘n’ Fixes, using theCGA Circle Swing. But first let’s lookat adopting an overall concept tolink mind and body.

By Scott CranfieldPGA MASTER PROFESSIONALPHOTOGRAPHY: KEVIN MURRAYSHOT ON LOCATION AT THE LONDON CLUB

INSTRUCTION COVER STORY

Circles&motion

Circles&motion

Prepare to let go of all your existing swingthoughts and focus onexternal factors – circlesof motion – that auto-matically reward you withgood mechanics

FEATURE DO YOU KNOW THE RULES?


We all know the Rules of Golf can be complicated – even the bestplayers in the world fall foul of innocent infringements and there havebeen several high profile cases this year where a player has incurred apenalty without even knowing they were in breach of a specific Rule.As Golf Operations Manager at Nizels Golf Club, in Kent, and amember of the PGA Rules Panel, I deal with issues on the Rules atall levels in the game. So let me present a selection of typical situa-tions in which it is all too easy to make an innocent mistake,explaining the correct procedures and how to follow them. If youhave encountered a bizarre situation and a tough Rules decision atyour club, email me with all the details at [email protected]. I’ll do my best to include the ruling in a future issue –Ashley Weller

Here, our player’s area of intended swing is

affected by an out of bounds stake. An object defin-

ing out of bounds is not an obstruction, and therefore

relief is not freely available. By moving the stake he

is in breach of Rule 13-2 (Improving Lie, Area of

Intended stance or swing or Line of Play) and would

be subject to a penalty of two strokes in stroke play

or loss of hole in match play.

The ‘do’s & don’ts’ involving stakes around the

course is a key area of the rules that every golfer

should avail himself of – red (lateral) and yellow

(water hazard) markers are commonplace about the

golf course and you need to know what you are

allowed to do should you find one interferes with a

shot. Hazard stakes are classed as Obstructions and

relief is available under Rule 24. Marker posts

denoting the line on a hole are similarly classified

and can be lifted out of the way before a shot.

Removing an Out of Bounds Stake

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEVIN MURRAYSHOT ON LOCATION AT NIZELS GCThanks to Nizels’ attached Professional Greg Hazelbywww.ashwellergolf.co.uk

by the bookPlaying it

Congratulations – that’ s a 2-shot penalty in stroke play, loss of hole in matchplay. There’ s nopoint replacing the stake –the penalty has alreadybeen incurred! Read up on Rule 13


Sand & Loose soil, Rule 23(When is a loose impediment

not a loose impediment?)

In this example our player’s ball lies just off the putting green.

some sand lies between the ball and the hole, some on the

green and some on the fringe. As sand and loose soil is a

loose impediment only when it lies on the putting green the

player may only remove the sand that lies on the green. Be

very careful in situations like this – a lot of golfers make the

mistake of brushing away the sand that lies on the fringe –

which contravenes the rules.

INSTRUCTION THE JY ACADEMY


The shortest club in the bag alsohappens to be one of the mostimportant – it’s no secret that thepro’s practise this part of the gamemore than anything else. Whateveryour handicap, the quickest route tolower scores is to go out and improvethe quality of your putting stroke.This quick lesson will help...

By Jonathan YarwoodPGA Master ProfessionalPHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID CANNON/GETTYIMAGESWWW.GOLFJY.COM

‘CONNECTION’?

A good set-upplaces your body,arms and putter inposition to initiatea smooth & easypendulum motion

Notice that the long‘V’ formed by thearms remains intactthroughout, handspassive, while theputterhead remainslow to the ground

Tour players today tend to work on what I would

term a ‘long V’, the arms hanging comfortably to

place the hands directly below the sternum. The

upper part of each arm is nicely ‘connected’ to the

upper body, and this shape – and indeed that con-

nection – is maintained throughout the stroke. The

result is a repeating pendulum motion – the most

popular type of stroke that we see on tour in mod-

ern professional golf.

Let me stress up front that the shoulders

rotate slightly in a good putting stroke; they do

not rock. They turn slightly back and through, as

you can just detect in the sequences you see

here and over the page.

note here how my chest has turned slightly in

the finish. This allows the putter to follow the

natural arc again, the long V encouraging a

taller posture, which in itself encourages a more

rotary motion of the shoulders.

When you go out to work on your putting

before a game, spend at least 10 minutes think-

ing abut the structure of your stroke (using the

drill you see above and opposite to ingrain that

sense of connection and repeatability).

Placing two tees in the green as I have done

here (above) is a simple first step that reminds

THE CASE FOR THE ‘LONG-V’Arms hang for pendulum motion

Are you making the

PRACTICE POINTERS


Note that the chestopens to the targetline as the putter isreleased and theball sent on its way

In a good set-up,with the armsextended to formthe long ‘V’, sensethat the pressure ofthe upper arms onthe chest keeps thetowel in place

As the shouldersgently rotate, theunit of the torso &the arms can beseen to worktogether, producinga perfect pendulumstroke

‘Splaying’ the elbows is a common fault and one that leads to inconsistency, as thearms will tend to operate independently of the upper body during the stroke. To rem-edy the problem, work on achieving the symmetry of the longer ‘V’ in your set-upposition (as per the towel drill), the upper part of your arms resting on your uppertorso, the shaft of the putter falling nicely in line with your forearms. Have the length& lie of your putter adjusted to accommodate this set-up.

All you need to work on ingraining a

‘connected’ putting stroke is a decent-

sized towel. One that is long enough

for you to trap the ends under each

arm – just as I have done here.

Because in doing that you set up

what is probably the best drill with

which to groove a pendulum putting

stroke (it’s also great for developing

the basic chipping action – as we’ve

covered previously in the magazine).

Let me emphasize again, the secret

to being a good putter lies in the ability to

control and repeat a consistent motion,

and you will do that effectively when the

arms and the upper torso work together

as a guiding unit. Trapping the ends of a

towel under each arm immediately gives

you a feeling of the upper arms being

‘connected’ to the upper chest – and

that’s exactly the sensation you want to

have throughout the stroke.

keep that pressure constant to keep

the ends of the towel in place. Any ten-

dency for the arms to work independent-

ly of the torso (i.e. to ‘splay’ about in the

fashion I mentioned earlier) will result in

the towel falling free (left).

so that’s a simple but effective

training drill that you can rehearse

anytime. Out on the course, you can

improvise by tucking your shirt

HOW TO REALLY FEEL THE ‘CONNECTION’Trap a towel to keep arms and body ‘together’

Oops...

These are changing times at the English Golf

union with the Director of Coaching Peter

Mattsson leaving at the end of September to

return home and start a job as Director of Elite

Performance for Swedish Sports.

The legacy he leaves behind is notable for

the transformation in coaching practices that

have taken place in the six years of his tenure

as National Coach at the EGu and the produc-

tion line of exciting young talent to emerge

frpom the operation at Woodhall Spa shows no

sign of slowing down.

Mattsson will still work on a consultancy

basis and is part of the recruitment process for

his successor along with the EGu Chief

Executive John Petrie although the latter admits

there is no deadline on the appointment as

long as they get ‘the right person’.

Petrie joined the organisation in 2007 and, hav-

ing seen Mattsson at work, knows exactly what

a hard act the Swede is to follow.

Petrie says: “When people look back at this

era I think they will all speak very highly of him –

and they will think even more of what he

achieved. What he has done is to put in place a

modern structure for English golf that will

endure long after he has gone. He has changed

the way in which elite golf is perceived and that

is a measure of the quality he has and brought

to this role. People at a national level now under-

stand what is needed to compete at that level.

We have quite a conveyor belt coming through

and that would not have happened without

Peter. He has won the respect of so many people

across the country involved in golf and has been

a terrific ambassador for the EGu.”

In the past few years graduates of the EGu

elite system such as Chris Wood and Tom

Lewis have hit the national consciousness with

prominent showings in the Open

Championship, England has won the last three

Home Internationals and in the last four

European Amateur Team Championships has

won one and been second twice. Add in players

such as Jack Senior, Tom Lewis, Stiggy

Hodgson, Andrew Sullivan and Darren Wright

filtering through the system and the likes of

Chris Wood, Jamie Moul and Tommy Fleetwood

out there earning a crust with the big boys, and

Oliver Fisher winning a first pro event recently

all looks rosy.

But there is one thing that even Mattsson has

not been able to fix and according to Petrie the

EGu is operating with one hand tied behind its

back as it seeks to develop the professionals of

tomorrow.

Petrie’s theory is that many amateurs turn

professional a year or two early than they

should and if the EGu had more spots available

in tour events to hand out to their squad they

may hold off taking the plunge until they were

completely ready.

The lack of European and Challenge Tour

events in England makes it impossible for

many top amateurs to mix it with the paid-boys

now and then, or even for youngsters to see

them in action, as Petrie explains.

“If we had more invites to Tour events we

could give them another season as amateurs to

develop their games,” says Petrie. “In European

events the amateur body gets six starts – and

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that is a huge disadvantage for us compared

to other countries. The youngsters also need

the chance to see the icons of the game – the

Luke Donalds and Ian Poulters. It is the big

names of the game who really make an

impact. We have got the world’s number one

and two ranked golfers and we don’t have the

tournaments in England. We need there to be

three European Tour or Challenge Tour event

that would give us 18 starts to play with to

give the senior amateurs a chance.

“Part of the reason players turn pro it is the

perceived glamour and people think they are

ready. A lot of our players don’t come from

wealthy backgrounds and it costs around

£15,000 in travel, accommodation and entry fees

to play the full amateur circuit and a lot of peo-

ple can’t afford to do it for an extra year. There is

pressure to turn pro and start earning some

money back. Peter says you should not turn pro-

fessional until you have got the right card.”

This may change in the New Year when Petrie

hopes some relaxation in the rules on amateur

status will allow players to earn some funds

towards subsistence on the amateur circuit so

he has his fingers firmly crossed on that one.

And of course some of the top amateurs

dreaming of lifting Claret Jugs in the future

may not be champions of the future so part of

Mattsson’s brief has been to prepare them for

real life as well.

“The amateur game is a stepping stone to

something else,” says the Swede. “And that

was always going to happen. You are not

going to see players like Gary Wolstenholme

being around for as long as he was. The ama-

teur game has developed so much.

“Amateur golf is developing players but not

all of them will be able to make a living and

we have to look at the ways we can integrate

education and golf and the ways that some

golfers will benefit from staying in education.

“I am pleased with how we have been able

to improve the organization in terms of golf

and the responsibility of those involved. We

have given the coaches more responsibility in

terms of allowing them to do the job that they

are good at. It brought them forward develop-

ing players but developing players always

needs to go hand in hand with developing

coaches. To develop world class players you

need world class coaches.”

Petrie’s contention is that the system that

Mattsson has put in place in terms of player

development means that it will bear fruit for

many years to come and we may not even have

heard of some of the players – possibly aged

Warwickshire’s Victoria Mallett won the Midlands south

regional girls’ championship by an impressive eight shots

with a four-under par score at Coventry Golf Club.

The 13-year-old from sutton Coldfield Ladies’ scored 70, 72

to finish well clear of her closest rival, Charlotte Hartshorn,

(Atherstone, Warwickshire), who returned 72, 78.

The u15 scratch champion was Charlotte West

(Harewood downs, Buckinghamshire) with two rounds of 76.

Ciara kelly (Hagley, Worcestershire), the Abraham Trophy

winner, was runner-up with a total of 157.

America’s Chip Lutz went one better than last year when

he finally landed the Seniors Open Amateur Championship

at Royal Portrush overhauling Frank Ford III and holding off

the Arthur Pierse in the final round.

Lutz’s 71 was good enough for a two-under par total of

214 and gave the 56-year-old a one shot win over the Irish

international Pierse, who finished with a 70.

Ford, 59, had led for the first two days, was four in front

at one point, but his challenge unravelled with his closing

77 and he had to settle for third place.

Lutz, a plus four handicapper, who plays out of Ledge

Rock Golf Club in Pennsylvania, got off to the best possible

start after making an eagle three at the par five second

before following up with a birdie at the next to put immedi-

ate pressure on Ford, who at the same time opened with

three straight bogeys which set the tone for the day.

American Vinny Gilles closed with a 77 for a nine-over

229 aggregate to win the over-65 category by four shots.

Bradley Moore of kedleston Park turned the english Boys’

under-14 stroke Play Championship, for the reid Trophy,

into a procession at Hertfordshire’s Porters Park.

The derbyshire teenager finished ten ahead of his closest

rival, Marc Tillement from france, after a closing 65 gave him

three-round aggregate of 205, five-under par.

Victory ended a barren summer for Moore, 13 (below),

who had lost out in a play-off for the Midland Boys title and

finished fifth in both the McGregor and douglas Johns

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EQUIPMENT PING G20 - FIRST LOOK


A force to bereckoned withf

or a company that has pio-

neered so many areas of equip-

ment technology one forgets

that Ping were relative latecom-

ers to the metalwood market,

only debuting their first non-wood driver in

1994 when the bandwagon was already

several years underway.

But they soon made up for lost time,

while, for the last seven years now, their G

series of titanium drivers have put them firm-

ly on the map where their putters and irons

have always been. As with the most of their

products, these metals have embodied a

game improvement philosophy that seems

to work equally for their growing ranks of tour

players as for the mid-handicap masses. But

after a steady evolution through G2, G5,

G10 and G15, the question is does the new

G20 series genuinely represent an advance-

ment or merely some cosmetic tinkering for

the sake of modern marketing?

We got our hands on the clubs in late

July and have been giving them an extend-

ed workout ever since.

G20 DRIVER

early reports from industry spies and unoffi-

cial websites had suggested that the G20

driver would feature only minor incremental

changes from the much revered G15 but, in

the event, we were surprised at the extent

of the differences in looks, construction and

performance.

Having played the G15 driver extensively

over the last 12 months I was particularly

keen to make my own hands-on comparison.

for a start, the two heads look very differ-

ent when placed side by side - and not just

due to the dark grey metallic finish of the

G20 compared with the shiny black crown

of the G15, and the now more visible ver-

sion of Ping’s trademark alignment aid.

despite both being at the 460cc volume

limit, the G20 has a reassuringly larger face

and actually manages to look deceptively

larger overall thanks to a cleverly reshaped

crown that is both more contemporary look-

ing and aerodynamically designed than its

Ping G20

Following our news taster

last month, we bring you full

details on Ping’s latest range

of G20 driver, fairways, hybrids

and irons, along with the

long-awaited Anser wedges.

Having spent the summer

trying out the new clubs,

Dominic Pedler brings you

his verdict.

EQUIPMENT LATEST


more traditional predecessor.

Yet nor is too geometrically

ambitious to put off the purist;

Ping thankfully never went

down the ‘square’ route and

have also learnt from the limit-

ed appeal of the overly exotic

head designs of various rivals.

The sound of the G20 at

impact seems, to these ears at

least, both brighter and slightly

louder than the G15 – but in no way

piercing, shrill or clunky like the

some on the market. This new timbre

could be down to the use of Titanium

811 as the choice of clubhead material –

a lighter, lower-density alloy favoured in jet

engine turbines – in preference to the more

commonly used Ti 6-4 of the G15.

Being 2% lighter and with both a higher

strength-to-weight ratio and allegedly faster

ballspeed, the Ti 811 could also explain what

Ping claim from robot testing – and which I

found anecdotally – to be a small but signifi-

cant improvement in both the G20’s distance

and dispersion.

The theme of getting the centre of gravity

lower and further back in the head may

have a become a cliché in the industry but

this has been a central theme over the evo-

lution over the G series, with G20 now

boasting a CG some 18% further back from

the face and 16% lower in the head than

the original G2. [do note, however, that

there is no overt weighting bias in the G

series: if you want some extra ‘anti-slice

action’, then consider the k15 model else-

where in the Ping range.]

In another recurring theme of trying to get

more mass behind the ball, the new materi-

al allows the head to be some 4g heavier

than even the G15. It’s not much but, per-

haps more to the point, that extra weight is

also strategically placed to increase the MOI

of the head both horizontally (i.e. for stability

in the heel-to-toe plane) and vertically,

Ping G20 Working with a lighter densi-ty alloy (Ti 8-1-1), with its

high strength-to-weightratio, enabled Ping engi-

neers to strategically posi-tion added weight within the

G20 head to increase theMOI on both the vertical

and horizontal axes


INSTRUCTION NICK BRADLEY

have an unhealthy fascination with

bunkers – I love the variations in design, I

love all the different textures of sand and I

love the strategy they dictate when correctly

positioned. The origins of this can perhaps

be traced to the fact that the course I grew

up on had one solitary bunker, on the 2nd

hole, and at the end of a day’s play I would sneak

out there and hit bunker shots until I couldn’t see

the ball anymore.

I remember having a sand-wedge with little

By Nick BradleyPHOTOGRAPHY: KEITH JACOBS • WWW.NICKBRADLEYGOLF.COM

What you see here inthis sequence is a reallyeasy way to picture theplane of the shaft backand through. Start righthere, in a good set-upposition, with your feetnicely square to the tar-get line, upper bodyfractionally open

From the address position,simply take your left hand offthe grip and extend the arm,palm flat, toward the ball. Tryto match the angle of thearm with the shaft angle ofthe club as I am doing

Try thisto anage-old

problem

fresh approach


A FRESH APPROACH TO SAND PLAY

bounce and a sharp leading edge and because

of this I had to really control the low point of my

strike and the angle of attack; looking back, as a

pretty decent bunker player today, it was proba-

bly better training than I then realised. With the

equipment available today, the facility to grind

and shape the sole of the sand-wedge to suit

different types of sand, becoming a good bunker

player becomes a matter of having the right con-

cepts and some time practising them.

This article is designed to give you a basic

starting point from which most bunker shots can

be learned and developed. It revolves around

three basic laws I believe are all you need to

employ to get started:

1. You don’t need to radically open your stance

to bunker shots

2. To become a master bunker player you must

feel the shot through the sole of the clubhead

3. Learn a simple one-planed action and evolve

from this point

The Modern Stance for Bunker Play

In days gone by a typical bunker lesson involved

being told that the best way to play a greenside

sand shot was to set-up with a noticeably open

stance, body aiming well left of the target, then

pick the club up steeply and wipe across the ball

in a ‘cut-up’ style of action. This one-shot-suits-

all type of approach gave you a get-out-of-jail

free card that worked pretty well every time.

One aspect we need to control in bunker play

is the LOW POINT of the strike. We cannot have

this aspect moving too much whilst trying to hit

any type of bunker shot because nothing about

your technique will be bankable until this critical

feature is stable.

As you can see here, I have adjusted my

stance so that while my shoulders are just slight-

ly open in relation to the target my feet are more

or less parallel with the line to the flag. There are

two good reasons why I believe you, too, should

adopt a philosophy that gradually moves away

from the seriously open stance.

(1) To control that LOW POINT in the swing you

must anchor your weight onto you left side or

lead foot. (Things get interesting when you try to

do this with an open stance – you can’t!

Effectively an open stance takes away your left

side and makes the task of settling into a stable

position over the ball virtually impossible. In fact,

the more open your stance becomes, the more

you fall back into your right side…try it, you’ll see

what I mean.)

With your stance and foot positioning taking

on a more square to shut position you will imme-

diately have a ‘left side’ to lean in to (Ben Hogan

used to do this with his long game so he could

rotate and collide into a closed left side and not

fall back from an open one).

(2) The second point also has its roots deeply in

By Nick BradleyPHOTOGRAPHY: KEITH JACOBS • WWW.NICKBRADLEYGOLF.COM

What you have now done is cre-ate a reference point from whichthe shaft angle of the club can fol-low into the backswing – so justallow the wrist to hinge as youswing the club back and matchthe shaft angle with your out-stretched left arm. This shouldgive you a terrific sense of wherethe shaft should be going and agenuine reference point for yourbackswing position

In this frame you can see that this planetheme is now extended into the follow-through. As the shaft exits the other side youcan see that it has virtually mirror-imagedthe profile it took during the backswing. Thisshows us that no crazy path ideas havebeen employed assisting in that low pointstaying the same

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If you ever cut your approach to the tricky

11th at Onyria Palmares and finish up 50

yards short and right of the green, it is me

you will have to thank for not being in a

bunker. Instead of stuck in nasty sand, your

ball will be resting on friendly grass and

among pretty yellow flowers in what I sincerely

hope will come to be known as ‘Clive’s Hump’.

Given that at 62 the chances of my winning a

string of majors is receding faster than my

hairline, having a modest earthy protuberance

on the western end of the Algarve named after

me is, sadly, the closest I’m ever likely to get to

achieving golfing immortality.

The extremely welcome opportunity to leave

a more or less indelible mark on golf’s great

landscape came when the rebuilt course was

opened recently. Perhaps consumed with guilt

at denying me the talent to fulfil my dream of

becoming world number one, the golfing gods

chose me from amongst the many worthy

guests attending this happy and historic occa-

sion to not only put me in his fourball but also

to sit me in the buggy alongside the legendary

Robert Trent Jones II. Having previously

approached his handlers and pleaded for 10

minutes with him, I was now looking at some-

where in the region of five hours in the compa-

ny of the man who, more than anyone in the

modern era, has literally shaped the golf cours-

es we love.

What was already fast developing into a

truly great day, acquired an almost surreal

state of perfection when I learnt that my group

was to commence the shotgun start on the

19th. Sadly, the vision of a couple of swift

beers to kick-start the round evaporated in the

Portuguese sunshine when I discovered that

there was, indeed, a 19th tee on this 27 hole

layout. Having played here a number of times

when it was just plain old Palmares, was of no

help whatsoever as the place was unrecognis-

able. Only the bar, terrace, pro shop and locker

(Above): The originalPalmaras layout has beentransformed by RTJ2,while sweeping views tothe Atlantic are as stun-ning as ever. (Right) Bestbuddies: one of them is aninternationally renownedcourse architect with over250 designs to his cred-it – the other masquer-ades as a golf writer


ONYRIA PALMARAS, PORTUGAL – IN THE COMPANY OF ROBERT TRENT JONES JNR

A round with RTJ2For the official opening of Onyria Palmaras Clive Agran found himself in a fourball with the manwho designed the much-talked about course – so there were no excuses for poor yardages...

rooms have survived and their days would

appear to be numbered as the ambitious plans

of the wealthy owner for a hotel et al are ful-

filled.

A smiling figure approached that was surely

able to locate the 19th tee quicker than most.

“Robert Trent Jones,” he announced, proffering

a hand. Famous people, I suppose, have to

introduce themselves just like us ordinary folk

or risk appearing somewhat presumptuous. He

was relaxed, cheerful and friendly and, despite

the innumerable hazards he’s created in the

nearly 300 courses he’s built in more than 40

countries around the globe, I instinctively liked

him.

Standing on the elevated tee as we awaited

the gun, he explained to me and our two play-

ing partners, Dave and Nick, that the project

here was a ‘blow-up’, which is architect-speak

for starting again. As he surveyed the breath-

taking panorama of hills, beach and Atlantic,

he declared with the relish of a victorious field-

marshal looking out over a battlefield,

“Nothing survived.”

The only downside to playing in the ‘stand

out’ group was that we attracted more atten-

tion in the way of spectators and cameramen

than my dodgy swing could comfortably han-

dle. Despite the pressure, I struck a tolerable

drive down the 19th and scrambled a cred-

itable double bogey, only one shot more than

RTJ2, who was once a very serious golfer and

is now a steady 13 handicapper.

We crossed one of the only features that has

survived the ‘blow-up’, the railway line, and

began a delightful stretch of lovely links. The

four holes that were there before were pretty

but rather flat and unremarkable. The two par

fives and two par threes that RTJ2 has created

are beautiful and dramatically demonstrate

what can be done if you know what you’re

doing.

Thousands of tons of sand have been shift-

ed to give shape, create interest and produce

attractive holes that are both aesthetically

pleasing and genuinely challenging. Although

somewhat preoccupied in looking for my ball, I

was nevertheless able to appreciate their

appeal. What I might have missed, however,

had the course architect not been sitting along-

side me, was the unusual appearance of the

teeing grounds. Instead of rectangular, perfect-

ly flat and with straight sides, they were much

less regular, sloped slightly in places and were

a bit rough around the edges. RTJ2 described

them as “crumpled ribbon” and explained they

were in keeping with what he called the more

‘informal’ section of the course.

As the round progressed and RTJ2

explained, my appreciation of the art of course

design grew even as the tally of lost balls rose.

For example, I don’t think I would ever have

been consciously aware of what is known as

the principal of harmony where, for example,

the outline of the mounding behind the green

mirrors the silhouette of the mountains in the

background. And how the use of diagonals cre-

ates greater visual appeal and more interesting

holes than does straight lines.

Like me, RTJ2 is a sensitive and creative indi-

vidual but, unlike me, he likes poetry. Evidently

passionate about what he does, he explained

the rhythms and rhymes that he endeavours to

develop when creating a course. He’s a sort of

landscape poet crafting stanzas within the

parameters laid down by nature and the disci-

pline imposed by the rules and conventions of

golf. And because he likes

rhymes, he took pleasure in the fact that the

four links’ holes went 5-3-5-3.

The only character flaw I detected in him

was his evident delight when one of our

group (including him!) hit into a bunker. It

was a sort of vindication, I suppose, of his

decision to put the bunker where it was. But

did it reveal a slightly sadistic streak in an

otherwise extremely friendly and charming

man? “No, my brother inherited the sadistic

gene. Bunkers act like lighthouses. They tell

you ‘don’t go there’. They aren’t always hos-

tile,” he explained. “When sited on the edge of

a ravine, for example, they can stop you’re

your ball rolling into deeper trouble. And

there are other problems besides the ones we

designers create. The wind, for example, is an

invisible hazard.”

Somewhat surprisingly for an American, he

PORTUGAL


(Above) The manresponsible for the re-design admires hishandiwork off the teeat the par-four 13th.(Left) Natural bunker-ing is a strong featureof Trent Jones Jnr’swork, wonderfullyshowcased here atthe, er, 21st!

Gi: Signing of a 5-year deal with the R&A at Royal

St George’s this year, Mercedes-Benz is now a

patron at three of the game's four majors – golf is

clearly a key part of your marketing strategy.

LF: Mercedes-Benz changed its global sponsorship

strategy at the end of 2007. Having been heavily

involved in tennis, with the ATP Tour, we decided

to step into the world of golf. We have operated

the biggest amateur golf tournament in the world

for the last 20 years, on a local level with dealers,

which brings us face to face with our customers.

When we decided to step in to the real world of

golf we followed the same core beliefs that under-

pin Mercedes-Benz – ‘the best or nothing’. And so

we have to aim at the majors. The first one was

the Masters at Augusta, which we negotiated in

2008, then the PGA in 2009 and now the Open,

the only major championship in Europe. We feel

we have the bottom-up credibility with our ama-

teur tournament, for which we offer our winners

money-cannot-buy opportunities through our

multi-year association with these major champi-

onships.

Gi: What are the core values in golf at this level

that attract Mercedes-Benz?

LF: Quite simply, for Mercedes-Benz, the key to

every decision we make involving global invest-

ment is that we are buying in to a part of a world

where the values of the sport match exactly the

values of Mercedes-Benz. The way we look at the

game of golf is that it’s perfection and fascination;

for Mercedes that perfection is measured in com-

fort, quality, safety – fascination is the unique

design, the style and a certain kind of sportiness

that Mercedes have. It’s not an aggressive sporti-

ness that you find elsewhere, it’s more a cultured

sportiness, which golfers have. So it’s a perfect fit

for us and at the same time one that allows us to

give something back to our customers.

Gi: Recent advertising campaigns have been

designed to appeal to a lower age profile – it almost

seems to go against the traditional model to think

golf accesses that market?

LF: What is most interesting, we believe, is that

there is taking place today a generational change

in golf. And we have seen this in our target group

as well. We have the established generation of

Mercedes-Benz customers and then there is a

younger generation who are interested in those

same values. Golf on the world stage is fascinating

right now with very young players challenging the

more established figures. The game is rich with

talented young characters challenging to win golf’s


MERCEDES-BENZ ADDS THE OPEN TO GOLF PORTFOLIO

This year at Royal St George’ssaw luxury car-maker Mercedes-Benz add the OpenChampionship to its existing patronage of the Masters and theUSPGA as it continues to rampup its involvement in a sport thathas been identified as deliveringthe perfect target audience ofyouth and experience. Richard Simmons talked to Lueder Fromm, Director of Global Marketing and Communications

Mercedes-Benz in pole position

biggest prizes – to be the best or nothing in the

future – and of course there are the older ones

who have proved they have the game to be the

best. Golf is better for us than a trendy sport like

kite-surfing, where there is no real fit with our

brand . Especially, we see golf as the perfect fit

to reach a younger target audience. We talk

about guys like Rory McIlroy or Rickie Fowler,

Martin Kaymer, Ryo Ishikawa – tremendous role

models for the younger generation.

Gi: Do you see golf as entering a new phase now

in the wake of Tiger Woods? Has the way he has

impacted upon the game changed the attraction

of golf for Mercedes-Benz at a corporate level?

LF: This, again, is a fascinating point of debate.

Tiger is in the consciousness of everyone in and

around golf. And the new dawn some people may

talk about has been compounded by the fact that

we have seen Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel

and Rory McIlroy win recent majors. My opinion?

I am new in the world of golf but I have clearly

seen the effect of Tiger when he is playing. I saw

this in April at Augusta. No doubt he is one of the

greatest and, who knows, he may be again. Real

heroes of a sport fill up the space they inhabit. We

have seen this with Tiger and also with Phil

Mickelson. What I like is they all have their own

characters. I compare it a little bit with our cars –

they all have their own character, whether its the

CLS or the SLK – young kids in the family are like

the young kids in the golf family. In tennis you

have machines, in my opinion. Golf has characters

– and right now more than at any other time in

recent years. Real characters is what appeals to

Mercedes-Benz; we like to communicate that via our

brand.

Gi: What next for Mercedes-Benz – any other plans

in golf at other levels?

LF: Looking at the global market, purely from an

marketing stance, which is obviously my area, this

is perhaps the greatest challenge golf faces. That

there are so many different tours – the European

Tour, the Asian Tour, the Australasian Tour, the

PGA Tour – plus all of the fledgling tours, which

are hugely important. Speaking purely as a spon-

sor I would be interested in there being a truly

international tour featuring the best players in the

world – something along the lines of Formula 1.

Golf is very strong right now and the way it is set

up works well, but purely from a sponsor’s per-

spective I would be attracted to a global tour, the

leading players competing in just 15-20 events a

year plus the majors. Think about it: we would

witness a fabulous circuit. The game has the char-

acters right now – you have a young generation of

talented golfers who fill this space and who would

essentially market the game of golf to the world. If

different tours decided to stick their heads togeth-

er we would listen.

Gi: Tell me more about the Mercedes-Benz amateur

tournament?

LF: The MercedesTrophy is an international ama-

teur tournament involving our golfing customers

in 43 different markets around the world – this

year it attracted 60,000 participants. The event is

operated through our retail network and here in

the uK it is very strong. Regional events lead all

the way to the annual world final in Stuttgart. It’s

been running for 20 years now and is regarded as

BUSINESS

SEPT/OCT 2011 GOLFINTERNATIONALMAG.COM

Mercedes-Benz in pole position(Clockwise from above left): The conditions atRoyal St George’s proved to the liking of DarrenClarke, one of the game’s most experiencedlinks campaigners; R&A secretary Peter Dawsonwas among the first to welcome the 2010 Openchampion Louis Oosthuizen to Kent; two-timeMasters champion Bernhard Langer has beenassociated with Mercedes-Benz since his firstAugusta win in 1985 – a new deal extends thatrelationship through 2014

“When we decided tostep in to the real worldof golf we followed the same core beliefs thatunderpin everything wedo at Mercedes- Benz: ‘the best or nothing’. And so we have to aim at the majors”

Given that a unique combination

of battle cruiser-imperious

boulevard behaviour and leap-

tall-buildings-at-a-single-bound

off-road capability remains an

absolutely mandatory requirement of anything

sporting a Range Rover badge (even if most

owners would never contemplate the latter for

fear of scuffing the paintwork or giving the

Shitzhu undue cause for queasiness), a certain

frisson of excitement always attends the

impending gleam of a new model launch.

So, which exotic proving ground awaits…?

Iceland? Borneo? The Australian Outback? The

banks of the Brahmaputra? Tierra del Fuego?

Nope. None of the above. It’s Liverpool. More

specifically, it’s a good hundred feet or so

under Liverpool…

But where are the rats? Barging the new

Range Rover Evoque tentatively through a

flooded section of a disused victorian railway

tunnel that runs arrow-straight for two miles

beneath the very heart of the city – water of a

suspiciously revolting hue so deep that the

resultant bow wave somewhat shackles the effi-

cacy of the headlamps – I’m struck by the total

absence of rats.

Surely the place should be heaving with evil-

smelling, sewage-sleek, tombstone-toothed

rodents the size of badgers, whiskers twitching

in anticipation of the merest whiff of mechani-

cal failure…?

Then again, I suppose I shouldn’t really be

surprised, because there’s precious little sign of

life above ground either. Dubbed European

Capital of Culture in 2008, noble Liverpool has

seen a small fortune spent on tourist-enticing

urban regeneration along the east bank of the

murky River Mersey. However, for the average

Liverpudlian, the words ‘rat’ and ‘smell’ must

spring to mind on a regular basis.

Because, speeches long consigned to the cir-

cular filing tray, ribbons snipped and mayoral

robes re-draped in mothballs, the enduring evi-

dence of endless suburban streets lined with

row upon row of sternly shuttered, long-vacat-

ed shops suggests that the overwhelming

majority of those whom actually live here have

not benefited from said vast injections of cash

in any way whatsoever.

Now, though Land Rover actually chose

Liverpool as the Evoque launch venue because

the car is built at the company’s nearby

Halewood plant, it is, perhaps, an equally appo-

site venue at which to consider the car in the

context of such reeking rodent musings.

Lest we forget, the company first set about

re-evaluating the brand with the irritatingly suc-

cessful Range Rover Sport; a cocksure mongrel

disguising Discovery underpinnings beneath

gently brash detailing and marketing-lie badg-

ing – Ranulph Fiennes disguised as Robbie

Williams. And now we have Round 2; what

started life as the next Freelander has now been

upgraded to Range Rover status – if only (a

cynic might mutter) to justify the price.

So, is this a true Range Rover, or merely the

boastful bearer of what some might consider an

increasingly devalued brand badge?

430mm shorter than a proper Range Rover,

with enormous door mirrors the size of kayaks


RANGE ROVER EvOQuE

Traditionalists may balk at theEvoque’s provocative styling butmake no mistake, this is a mini-sport utility vehicle that carries theLand Rover heritage with pride,as Anthony Ffrench-Constantreports after a unique road-test

Style with substance intact

that wouldn’t look out of place on a Scania

truck, the Evoque certainly is, viewed from any

angle, a fabulous looking machine. In the gently

depressing context of Liverpudlian suburbia, it

stands out like a butterfly in a bomb crater.

Much has been made of how closely the new

car resembles the stunning 2008 LRX concept

from which it is spawned. And Land Rover has

been furtively perpetuating this perception by

refusing to allow concept and finished article

anywhere near each other within range of the

automotive paparazzi’s lenses.

Why worry? Even if differences did prove

greater than feeble memory might allow, the

Evoque is still so adroitly evocative of the con-

cept that such a reality check would be most

MOTORING



INSTRUCTION MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ

At 46, Miguel Angel Jimenez is perfectly awarethat he has to stay ‘loose’ to make the quality ofswing he needs in order to compete with theyoung guns on tour today. And it speaks volumesfor the talent of one of the game’s great charac-ters that he has this year enjoyed one of his finestseasons on tour, with two victories in Europe anda starring role in that epic Ryder Cup match.

Miguel’s distinct pre-shot routine is muchtalked about and it’s something we have workedon now for the better part of six years. Rather likethe way in which Corey Pavin makes an exagger-ated rehearsal to neutralise the natural tendenciesin his swing, Miguel focuses on creating earlywidth combined with a full turn of the upper body.Left to its own devices, his backswing tends tosee the arms and the club wander too far to theinside with the result that he is prone to gettingstuck, and forced into a sliding move with thelower body and then having to rely on handaction to recover, which is never consistent.

Miguel starts the sequence with the club afew feet ahead of the ball and then gathers hismomentum as he swings the club, hands, armsand body together into the backswingsequence, at the same time cranking his wristsback to open up the clubface. Doing that helpshim to guard against getting the face too shut –another tendency he is aware of and works toneutralise with this routine.

TheThere’s a very good reason for Miguel’s nickname out on tour – and it has nothing to do with his beloved Ferrari’s.Miguel Angel Jimenez is one of the hardest working players in world golf and a player who totally understands his swing and the tendencies he has to be wary of

Analysis by Stuart SmithEUROPEAN TOUR COACHPHOTOGRAPHY: RICHARD HEATHCOTE/GETTYIMAGES.COMSHOT ON LOCATION AT VALDERRAMA GOLF CLUB

This is Miguel’s starting point in his pre-shot practice routine. With his right footdrawn back from the left (to help encour-age an active hip and upper body turn) hemoves his arms and the club ahead of theball, from where he then gathers upmomentum as he swings the club, handsand arms back over the ball, hingeing thewrists to create the exaggerated back-swing you see opposite

WIDTH&TURNThe keys to Miguel’s pre-shot warm-up

MECH

ANIC


It could be argued that onceyou reach a certain standardthe sole purpose of practisingis to reinforce the swing feel-ings that neutralise whateveryour personal swing tenden-cies might be. For Miguel, thatmeans constantly remindinghimself of the need to createwidth in the first stages of theswing away from the ball (left)and also on turning and ‘cov-ering’ the ball with the rightshoulder as he unwinds to afinish. The overriding thinkingin our work together is thatMiguel plays his best golfwhen he is focused on themovement of the bigger mus-cles in the body, and not rely-ing on the smaller reflexivemuscles in the hands.

As the clubhead gathers pace Miguel workson rotating his left forearmand really cranking thewrists to get the clubfaceopen, as you see here. Hewants to see his arms ‘infront’ of him – i.e. oppositethe middle of the chest.This is designed to neu-tralise a tendency to (1)get his arms too ‘deep’ and(2) to close down the club-face. The result is that hegets it somewhere inbetween the two extremeswhen he makes his swingfor real on the course(although you can see thathe does err on getting thatleft arm deep across thechest)

Arms and clubaway together

Right shoulder rotatesto a full finish, facingthe target


TRAVEL

With four of St Andrews’ finest new golf courses right on the door step – and a royal connection to boot – the lavish Fairmont Hotel is making headlines as a luxury basefor visitors to the Home of Golf. Following in some illustriousfootsteps, Dominic Pedler checked in with his gym shoes as well as his golf clubs.

FAIRMONT ST ANDREWS

St Andrews may be affectionately known

as the Auld Grey Toun but some its finest

golf attractions are neither old nor grey –

nor, strictly speaking, within the town

boundaries. For while the Old Course, the

R&A clubhouse and those stunning views

of the West Sands will always be the Kaaba for any pil-

grimage to this Scottish golfing Mecca, the growing rep-

utation of four relatively new courses – all built on the

bracing coastline to the south-east of the city since the

turn of the millennium – has created an essential

annexe at the Home Of Golf.

The prime land at St Andrews Bay, right on the city

limits and with spectacular views into town and across

the sea to Carnoustie, was snapped up by an

American entrepreneur with a vision for a luxury hotel

with its own 36 holes of golf.

A decade on and the imposing Fairmont Hotel is

drawing discerning golfers looking to escape the

immediate hubbub of Golf City while still being just a

five minute drive from the historic centre.

Snaking around the hotel over 520 acres of ‘ocean-

front’ property are the fairways of The Torrance and

The Kittocks courses which have been reinforced as

worthy additions to St Andrews’ golf portfolio by the

resort’s recent £17m makeover.

Being also sandwiched between the world-renowned

Kingsbarns, a few miles further out, and St Andrews’

newest course, The Castle, back towards town, the

Fairmont has become an obvious draw for golfers –

while not forgetting its roll call of celebrities, world

Royal & Modern


WORLD NEWS

Clinching victory in a three-hole playoff at the Atlanta Athletic Club, KeeganBradley became the fourth first-timemajor champion this season

Keegan Bradley’s playoff victory over Jason Dufner to clinch the US PGA Championship in Atlanta was remarkable on many counts – not least for the majorbreakthrough it gave the much-maligned long putter

One for thehistory books

It really was the strangest of uSPGA

Championships. Tiger Woods flailed away in

the first round and missed the cut for only the

fourth time in a major. Rory McIlroy injured his

wrist on the third hole of the first round

attempting what many regarded as a reckless

recovery from up against the root of a tree and

although he soldiered on, he never got into

contention. Luke Donald and Lee Westwood

were right there but never played with the

authority to claim the Wanamaker Trophy.

Robert Karlsson and Anders Hansen got close

but the Atlanta Athletic Club – with all those

water hazards and that rough and par-threes

that were really short par-fours and a par-five

18th that was a par-four on the card – seemed

to get to everyone in the end.

Phil Mickelson flattered to deceive and a few

weeks later turned to a belly putter. He was

only following the example of Keegan Bradley,

the first man to win a major with a long putter.

His was the belly version and he has used it for

two years. A rookie on the PGA Tour, the 25-

year-old had already won once this season but

this was his first attempt at a major and only

Ben Curtis had won one on his first appearance

since Francis Ouimet. How he won was even

more extraordinary when he fell five behind

with three to play.

In truth, with the world No 108 taking on

the world No 80, a 34-year-old who had never

won in Jason Dufner, it was only the drama of

the closing stages that gave this championship

anything to recommend it. At the 280-yard par-

three 15th, Bradley missed the green on the

left, the opposite side to the frequently visited

lake, but then chipped into the water. He took a

triple-bogey six and was five behind Dufner,

who was waiting on the tee.

“I just kept telling myself, ‘Don’t let that hole

define this whole tournament,’” Bradley said. He

birdied the next and then holed a brilliant putt

at the 17th. A par at the last and he was in at

eight under. Dufner, who led by four from

Hansen on the 15th tee, found the water. He

took a bogey but then bogeyed the 16th and the

17th. In the first three rounds, Dufner had been

three under for the last four holes, a stretch

that was producing bogeys and worse for most.

On the last day, it caught up with him. Dufner

and Bradley went to a playoff and Bradley

birdied the 16th again and then led by two

when Dufner three-putted the 17th. A birdie at

the last only brought the deficit back to one.

Bradley, the son of a PGA professional, is the

nephew of LPGA great Pat Bradley, who was one

of the most tenacious players of her generation.

It must be in the genes. His aunt texted: “This is

the first of many majors and I’m so proud of

you. Way to go.” She also said her advice when

he was in high school was: “‘For every hour you

spend on the driving range, spend two hours on

the short game. For every hour you spend chip-

ping, spend an hour-and-a-half on your putting.’

He knew how important it was to save par. He’s

a master at par putting.”

Bradley said: “I don’t want to be one of the

guys that kind of disappears. I would love to be

up in a category with the best players and be

mentioned with Phil Mickelson, one of my

PGA TourDeutsche Bank Championship

TPC Boston, Norton, MA // 02-03 September

1 Webb simpson -15 69 68 67 65 269 $1,440,000.00

2 Chez reavie -15 67 68 68 66 269 $ 864,000.00

3 Jason day -13 67 69 67 68 271 $ 416,000.00

3 Luke donald -13 66 70 68 67 271 $ 416,000.00

3 Brandt snedeker -13 69 64 72 66 271 $ 416,000.00

6 Jim furyk -12 69 69 66 68 272 $ 288,000.00

7 Bo Van Pelt -11 73 68 66 66 273 $ 268,000.00

8 Hunter Mahan -10 68 71 69 66 274 $ 240,000.00

8 Adam scott -10 69 63 71 71 274 $ 240,000.00

10 Phil Mickelson -9 70 73 63 69 275 $ 177,333.34

The Barclays

Plainfield Country Club, Edison, New Jersey // 25-27 August

1 dustin Johnson -19 66 63 65 194 $1,440,000.00

2 Matt kuchar -17 63 65 68 196 $ 864,000.00

3 Vijay singh -16 65 64 68 197 $ 464,000.00

3 Brandt snedeker -16 70 66 61 197 $ 464,000.00

5 Jonathan Byrd -15 65 66 67 198 $ 320,000.00

6 Brian davis -14 69 66 64 199 $ 259,000.00

6 Justin rose -14 67 65 67 199 $ 259,000.00

6 Camilo Villegas -14 68 66 65 199 $ 259,000.00

6 Y.e. Yang -14 70 66 63 199 $ 259,000.00

10 Charley Hoffman -13 66 66 68 200 $ 200,000.00

Wyndham Championship

Sedgefielf Country Club, Greensboro, NC // 18-21 August

1 Webb simpson -18 66 65 64 67 262 $ 936,000.00

2 George Mcneill -15 65 70 66 64 265 $ 561,600.00

3 Tommy Gainey -14 63 65 69 69 266 $ 353,600.00

4 Charles Howell III -13 69 65 66 67 267 $ 196,040.00

4 Jerry kelly -13 67 66 69 65 267 $ 196,040.00

4 kyung-tae kim -13 69 67 65 66 267 $ 196,040.00

4 Carl Pettersson -13 65 70 63 69 267 $ 196,040.00

4 Vijay singh -13 65 69 68 65 267 $ 196,040.00

9 Jim furyk -12 65 67 69 67 268 $ 140,400.00

9 Chez reavie -12 66 69 68 65 268 $ 140,400.00

US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

Atlanta Athletic Club, John’s Creek, Georgia, USA // 11-14 August

1 keegan Bradley -8 71 64 69 68 272 € 1,028,126

2 Jason dufner -8 70 65 68 69 272 € 615,452

3 Anders Hansen -7 68 69 70 66 273 € 387,771

4 robert karlsson -5 70 71 67 67 275 € 235,508

4 david Toms -5 72 71 65 67 275 € 235,508

4 scott Verplank -5 67 69 69 70 275 € 235,508

7 Adam scott -4 69 69 70 68 276 € 184,280

8 Luke donald -3 70 71 68 68 277 € 159,733

8 Lee Westwood -3 71 68 70 68 277 € 159,733

10 kevin na -2 72 69 70 67 278 € 133,763

10 d A Points -2 69 67 71 71 278 € 133,763

12 sergio Garcia -1 72 69 69 69 279 € 94,478

12 Bill Haas -1 68 73 69 69 279 € 94,478

12 Trevor Immelman -1 69 71 71 68 279 € 94,478

12 Charl schwartzel -1 71 71 66 71 279 € 94,478

12 steve stricker -1 63 74 69 73 279 € 94,478

12 nick Watney -1 70 71 68 70 279 € 94,478

19 Brian davis PAr 69 73 69 69 280 € 57,784

19 Matt kuchar PAr 71 71 68 70 280 € 57,784

19 Hunter Mahan PAr 72 72 66 70 280 € 57,784

19 Phil Mickelson PAr 71 70 69 70 280 € 57,784

19 ryan Palmer PAr 71 70 69 70 280 € 57,784

19 John senden PAr 68 68 72 72 280 € 57,784

19 Brendan steele PAr 69 68 66 77 280 € 57,784

26 robert Allenby +1 72 70 71 68 281 € 36,331

26 Brendon de Jonge +1 68 72 69 72 281 € 36,331

26 Charles Howell III +1 72 68 73 68 281 € 36,331

26 Jerry kelly +1 65 73 74 69 281 € 36,331

26 spencer Levin +1 71 70 68 72 281 € 36,331

World Golf Championship – Bridgestone Invitational

Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio // 04-07 August

1 Adam scott -17 62 70 66 65 263 $1,400,000

2 Luke donald -13 68 69 64 66 267 $ 665,000.00

2 rickie fowler -13 68 64 69 66 267 $ 665,000.00

4 Jason day -12 63 70 66 69 268 $ 332,500.00

4 ryo Ishikawa -12 67 68 64 69 268 $ 332,500.00

6 Zach Johnson -10 70 68 64 68 270 $ 215,000.00

6 kyung-tae kim -10 66 72 66 66 270 $ 215,000.00

6 rory McIlroy -10 68 68 67 67 270 $ 215,000.00

9 david Toms -9 68 68 68 67 271 $ 152,500.00

9 Lee Westwood -9 67 71 68 65 271 $ 152,500.00

Reno-Tahoe Open

Montreux Golf & Country Club, Reno, Nevada // 04-07 August

1 scott Piercy -15 72 70 61 70 273 $ 540,000.00

2 Pat Perez -14 73 68 65 68 274 $ 324,000.00

3 Blake Adams -13 67 72 67 69 275 $ 174,000.00

3 steve flesch -13 68 69 70 68 275 $ 174,000.00

5 Jim renner -12 74 69 65 68 276 $ 120,000.00

6 steve elkington -11 73 65 68 71 277 $ 97,125.00

6 Ben Martin -11 68 72 68 69 277 $ 97,125.00

6 Matt McQuillan -11 71 69 71 66 277 $ 97,125.00

6 nick O'Hern -11 65 72 69 71 277 $ 97,125.00

10 Hunter Haas -10 70 67 72 69 278 $ 69,000.00

The Greenbrier Classic

The Old White TPC, White Sulphur Springs, W. Vaginia // 28-31 July

1 scott stallings -10 70 65 66 69 270 $1,080,000.00

2 Bob estes -10 69 72 65 64 270 $ 528,000.00

2 Bill Haas -10 71 67 65 67 270 $ 528,000.00

4 Brendon de Jonge -9 66 67 72 66 271 $ 226,200.00

4 Andres romero -9 71 69 66 65 271 $ 226,200.00

4 Cameron Tringale -9 70 67 67 67 271 $ 226,200.00

4 Jimmy Walker -9 69 72 62 68 271 $ 226,200.00

4 Gary Woodland -9 65 70 67 69 271 $ 226,200.00

9 Webb simpson -8 65 68 69 70 272 $ 168,000.00

9 kyle stanley -8 66 75 65 66 272 $ 168,000.00


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