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PGA Tour Schedule Changes for 2007

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This morning PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem announced the schedule changes which will take place for the 2007 PGA Tour season.

  • The establishment of the FedEx Cup, a prestigious and lucrative season-long points bonus program for players and the centerpiece to the entire PGA TOUR season.
  • A conclusive PGA TOUR Championship Series of four tournaments that focuses on the final push for the FedEx Cup title. The Championship Series will culminate with THE TOUR Championship Presented by Coca-Cola, which will move from early November to a mid-September slot in the schedule.
  • The creation of the PGA TOUR “Quest for the Card” Fall Series, which follows THE TOUR Championship Presented by Coca-Cola and determines the remainder of the 125 players who will become eligible for the next year’s FedEx Cup.

Read the full story at PGATour.com.

Last Two Weeks in Golf

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Posting has been well overdue here at Primary Rough for the past week and a half. Here’s what I missed…

  • Paula Creamer won a second Japan Tour title, giving her a total of 4 tournament wins on the year. Pretty impressive for a girl fresh out of high school.
  • Ryan Moore earned his PGA Tour card for 2006. The last player to skip Q-school, going right from college to the pros was Tiger Woods.
  • Michelle Wie will once again play in the Sony Open, which is the first event of the 2006 PGA Tour schedule.
  • Jean Van de Velde wants to play in the women’s British Open next year. Is he for real? He couldn’t even hold on to a 3 stroke lead with one hold to play against the men. I guess he wasn’t embarrassed enough.
  • Phil Mickelson will not be playing in the Tour Championship.
  • Tom Watson came from 6 back to win the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
  • With his win at the Chrysler Championship, Carl Pettersson became the ninth player in his 20s to win on the PGA Tour this year.
  • Ernie Els announced that he’ll be back in the “swing” of things for the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa which starts on December 1st.
  • 17-year-old Angela Park has decided to bypass college and head straight for the LPGA Tour.
  • Casey Martin most likely has called it quits.
  • Colin Montgomerie claimed his record eighth money title on the European tour.
  • PGA Tour charity donations to hit $1 billion. That’s a lot of money! No other sport can come close to that number.

Tiger and Vijay Leave Funai Classic Early

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The top two golfers in the world, Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh, failed to make the cut this weekend in the Funai Classic at Disney. During his ten seasons on the PGA Tour Tiger has only missed a total of three cuts, but two of those have been this year. Since Singh also missed the cut it means Tiger locked up the money title, but he didn’t seem to care.

If money titles meant anything, I’d play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it’s been a good year.

Tiger Woods

Even though Woods has missed two cuts this year it’s been a season about him finding his golf swing again. He’s had 6 victories with two of them being major championships and won nearly $10 million. I’d say it’s been a pretty successful year for Tiger.

Wilson KC4 Putter

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Wilson Kirk Currie KC4 PutterWilson brings us the r7 of putters with their Kirk Currie series of putters. The KC4 putter pictured here is not one of the best looking clubs on the market, but it is often used by Padraig Harrington, so it must work.

Each putter in the Kirk Currie series is customizable with a set of weights, screws, and alignment options to make the putter fit your game and course conditions. If you don’t have that ability to buy a custom fit putter one that you can “tweak” on your own is the next best thing. As your putting stroke inproves (or gets worse) you can modify the putter to reflect your game.

Weight portals in the shaft’s end cap and sole of the putter head allows players to transfer the club’s balance point so that, regardless of greens conditions, the precision-milled Kc putter series can create the right response.

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How Golf Balls Are Made

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Top Flite Golf BallEver wonder how a golf ball is made? How do they create the dimples? How are the different layers of a golf ball put together? I’ve asked myself these questions many times.

Top Flite has an excellent interactive video presentation titled Golf Ball Construction, which shows the process used to make their golf balls. I thought it was very interested to hear that it takes 10 hours to complete a batch of balls.

We play the game of golf, hitting around a little white ball, but take for granted what goes into making the balls. Now that I know maybe I’ll concentrate a little harder on keeping the ball in play.

Samsung World Championship

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Annika Sorenstam won the tournament for her 5th time. She actually crushed the field by 8 shots, even after taking a double bogey on the last hole. It was Sorenstam’s eighth win of the year and wrapped up her eighth LPGA Tour player of the year award. Paula Creamer, the LPGA Rookie of the year, finished in 2nd place.

Bigger headline news came from Michelle Wie though and it was not good news. In her first event as a professional she was disqualified for signing an incorrect score card. According to officials she took an illegal drop which moved her closer to the hole. She’s young and will earn from her mistake. If something like this had to happen it’s better that it did now when Annika already had the tournament in the bag.

Michelle Wie's Swing

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Take a step by step look at Michelle Wie’s swing on the Golf Digest site. It seems as thought they removed the page from the site. Wie writes that she concentrates on tempo while playing. Most weekend hackers swing too hard which causes many problems in the golf swing. Of course Michelle also averages about 280 yards with her drives so she hits it farther than most of us also.