Golf Tournament Results from The Sports HQ – 11th to 17th August, 2008

Aug. 20, 2008 - PRLog -- Wyndham Championship (PGA Tour)

The Wyndham Championship was held at Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro where Carl Pettersson won with a score of 21-under 259. Pettersson used the following golf clubs: Nike SQ Sumo2 Tour (10.5 degrees with Fujikura Six shaft) and TaylorMade Burner 3-wood (14.5 degrees). Carl Pettersson also used an Adams Idea Pro (20 degrees) hybrid with Nike Pro Combo Tour irons (4-PW) and Nike Forged (49, 55 and 59 degrees) wedges, whilst finishing with an Odyssey White Hot XG #7 Long putter.

Jeld-Wen Tradition (Champions Tour)

The Jeld-Wen Tradition tournament has been won by Fred Funk with an excellent final round of 3-under 69 using the following set of TaylorMade golf clubs: TaylorMade Burner (10.5-deg) driver with TaylorMade 200 T 3-wood and Burner 5-wood. Funk also selected a TaylorMade Rescue TP hybrid (21-deg) wood in addition to prototype golf irons (4-PW) and rac wedges (54- and 58-degrees). Funk opted for a Rife Barbados putter to finish.

The Xerox Classic (Nationwide Tour)

The Xerox Classic was held this year at Irondequoit Country Club, New York and was won by Brendon de Jonge with a closing round of 1-under 69 using the following combination of Titleist golf clubs: Titleist 905R driver with 906F4 fairway wood. De Jonge opted to use an Adams Idea Pro hybrid club (18-deg) throughout the tournament in addition to Titleist ZM/ZB irons and Vokey Design pitching and sand wedges, in addition to a Vokey TVD lob wedge and Scotty Cameron Futura Phantom putter.

SAS Masters (European Tour)

Peter Hanson defied the appalling conditions at the SAS Masters for Sweden’s first home win in ten years. Closing on 1-over par 71 – Hanson used the following TaylorMade golf clubs to claim the title: TaylorMade Tour Burner 9-degree driver and TP 3-wood (14-deg). Hanson selected to use a TaylorMade Rescue TP wood (19-degrees) in addition to TaylorMade r7 3-iron and rac TP irons (4-9). Finally, the Swede opted to putt with a TaylorMade Itsy Bitsy Spider putter.

Greater Richmond Classic (Duramed Futures Tour)

17-year old Haeji Kang battled to win one of his first professional titles in a sudden-death tie with the Mexican, Sophia Sheridan. Kang finished the tournament on 11-under par using a MacGregor NVG2 golf driver, Cleveland HiBore 3- and 5-wood with TourStage irons (4-PW) and Cleveland wedges. A YES! Donna golf putter completed his championship winning line-up of golf clubs.

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