The second WGC of the season saw a tight battle for honours with Geoff Ogilvy piping Jim Furyk, Retief Goosen and Vijay Singh to the title and bagging the $1,350,000 1st prize. The World Golf Championships are played over 5 continents and feature the top-50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings along with top finishers on the money lists of 6 Tours comprising the International Federation of PGA Tours (PGA TOUR, European Tour, Australasian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, Asian Tour and Southern Africa Tour). The formats vary - match play, strokeplay and team - but the purses are always big! This was the second WGC title that Geoff Ogilvy has won, adding the 2008 WGC CA Championship to the 2006 WGC World Accenture Matchplay Championship.

What is obvious from our photo is that Paul is a member of the Nike Golf stable. From the limited club on show we can tell that Paul’s driver this week was a Nike SQ Sumo 5000. As well as this we can identify that he was carrying a set of Nike Forged Blade irons.

(CLICK ON IMAGES TO SEE FULL SIZE VERSION).

The BMW PGA Championship was played out on a rain-lashed West Course at Wentworth in Surrey. Traditionally, the PGA attracts one of the strongest fields on the European Tour and this time was no exception with Vijay Singh, Ernie Els, Michael Campbell and others all making the trip across the pond. It was not, however, one of the better known superstars who walked off with the trophy and 725,000 Euro first prize, but Anders Hansen from Denmark who holed a 25 foot birdie putt on the first sudden-death play-off hole against England’s Justin Rose. This was only Hansen’s second victory on Tour – bizarrely the only other win was the same tournament – then called the Volvo PGA – five years earlier in 2002.

The Players Championship (TPC) has for a long time been considered golf’s ‘5th’ Major because of the traditionally very strong field – typically the top 50 players in the world congregate to battle it out for the huge prize money. The victor this time was Phil Mickelson who, helped by Tiger’s old coach, Butch Harmon, bagged the $1.62m first prize and the 31st PGA Tour victory of his career after finishing with a 3-under 69 and a two-stroke victory over Sergio Garcia. Stewart Cink and Jose Maria Olazabal a further stroke back tied 3rd. The Stadium course is famous for its tiny island green on the par 3 17th – which this time proved a watery grave for a record 94 golf balls (it’s not just us handicappers who end up in the drink). This was Mickelson’s first victory at the TPC after 14 attempts.