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Archive for May, 2008

The BMW PGA Championship was originally called the British PGA Championship back when it began in 1955. Since then it has had several sponsored names, but the phrase “PGA Championship” has usually been included in the name.

Since 1984, the dignified Wentworth Club near London has been the venue of the BMW PGA Championship. The club is also the headquarters of the PGA European Tour, and its West Course was modified and improved last year by no less than Ernie Els. Every year the BMW PGA Championship boasts one of the largest amount of prize money on the European Tour and regularly attracts the golfing elite. The tournament embodies tradition, fame and honour in a way that few other events can match. BMW has been a partner and name’s patron since 2005.

Previous winners include, Ian Woosnam, Nick Faldo and Colin Montgomerie amongst others. The current holder of the BMW PGA Championship title is Denmark’s Anders Hansen. A minimum of 64 ranking points along with a large cash prize are available for the winner. The prize money in 2006 was £3,409,999 and in 2007 was £3,490,339. Competing for the prize this year are Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, Lee Westwood, Justin Rose, Luke Donald, last year’s winner Anders Hansen along with many other professional golfers all hoping for the points and the money.

Justin Rose burst to fame at The Open Championship in 1998, as a seventeen year old amateur, when The Open was last held at the Southport course a decade ago, finishing in a tie for fourth place. He turned professional the following week. Rose has already begun preparing for what he admits will be a poignant return to Royal Birkdale for The Open Championship 2008.

Justin Rose’s equipment sponsors are TaylorMade, so needless to say there are plenty of TaylorMade’s finest golf equipment in his bag. Rose’s glove of choice is the TaylorMade Targa golf glove. Targa gloves are made of AAA Cabretta leather for amazing Tour feel, are micro-perforated for 360-degree ventilation and feature antimicrobial fabric for a better fit.

The TaylorMade Targa golf glove can be found, as well as many other TaylorMade gloves, at Golfbuyitonline.

Full-line Titleist player Ryuji Imada captured the 2008 AT&T Classic and registered his first US PGA Tour victory improving on his second place finish at the event last year. Imada trusted Titleist from tee-to-green using Pro V1x golf balls, 905R driver, 906F2 Fairway Woods, 695CB irons, Vokey Design pitch, approach and lob wedges and a Scotty Cameron putter.

8 of the top 10 finishers at the AT&T Classic relied upon Titleist golf balls for their success. Parker McLachlin used Pro V1x balls as well as the new Titleist AP2 irons and shot a final round 67 to finish T5, alongside Justin Bolli who used Pro V1 golf balls, three shots behind Imada.

Titleist was the golf ball of choice of 100 golfers at The AT&T Classic, compared to the nearest competitor with 22. As well as being the golf ball of choice, Titleist was the number one wedge and putter, joint first in iron sets as well as coming second in the driver count at the AT&T Classic. With Imada’s victory, Scotty Cameron putters have been the winning choice of 12 champions on the 2008 US PGA Tour, three times the nearest competitor with four. In fact, Scotty Cameron has been the winning putter in six of the last seven events.

This was another impressive victory for Titleist, and the constant flow of victories for Pro V1 players, provides further proof that the world’s best go for the incomparable performance of Titleist.

Sergio Garcia has spent much of his career in the Top Ten of the Official World Golf Rankings but has yet to win a professional major championship.  He has come close in the past, coming second in The Open in 2007. Garcia is one of the ten favourites to win The Open 2008.

Garcia is currently sponsored by TaylorMade and the majority of his equipment is TaylorMade equipment.  His wedge is a TaylorMade RAC Satin Wedge. The RAC Satin TP Wedge is designed for those who require maximum control from their wedge shots in and around the green. Like the classic RAC Chrome Wedge, the RAC Satin TP features a teardrop shape, milled face and grooves. They are engineered with TaylorMade’s tour-proven Y-cutter grooves, which feature sharp edges and a wide, deep design. The Y-cutter grooves are 100% individually CNC milled after the face is milled flat, resulting in clean, sharp, consistent groove edges that grip the ball better.

Jim Furyk won at least one tournament each year on the PGA Tour between 1998 and 2003. At the time, this was the second best streak of winning seasons behind Tiger Woods and he made the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings. Furyk’s biggest win to date came on June 16, 2003, when he tied the record for the lowest 72-hole score in U.S. Open history to win his first major championship.  Furyk started putting cross-handed at age 7 and still uses this method to this day.

Furyk uses a Odyssey White Hot Two Ball Putter.  The White Hot XG Two Ball Putter is the next stage in White Hot Technology that utilises a multi-layer insert for phenomenal performance on the green. It combines two materials with different properties to take the level of feedback, feel and distance control to an all-new, extreme level.  The Two Ball Putter is the best selling putter in the world.