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Recently: Bandon Dunes Pacific Dunes Portrush I've been lucky enough to play Portrush last year, and Bandon this year, and while both were amazing experiences, I have to go with Bandon Dunes. It's just perfection in a links course.

1. Rory McIlroy: -11 2. Charl Schwartzel: -9 3. Tiger Woods: -8

I don't think he choked in Malaysia, he chose the correct way to play the putt - aggressively to mitigate the effects of the slope. However he was pretty far off line with it. I do wonder about his and his caddy's ability to read putts as well as the other top players can.

The rankings were set up in the way they were for exactly this scenario - where a guy who's been playing really good consistent golf for a long time gets to the top. Which tournaments he's won has nothing to do with it.

It clearly works better for some than others. I do wonder if Pavin thought about these things. Every interview I see with him, he just says "Oh, they know what they need to do..". Dustin didn't look very happy out there.

The fact that the guy was up there on the leaderboard all day and you still can't spell his name correctly says it all. Do you rely on the Golf Channel headline stories for all of your info or do you actually track the scores that some of these lesser mentioned, but equally good players get week in week out? Martin Kaymer's been around for a while now and the whole world has known that he's been one of the likeliest first time major winners for the last couple of years.

One of the commentators today said he looked like a traffic cone with hair.

The GPS functionality works fine without reception. It won't however show you the aerial view since it requires a data connection to download the images. I've tried the following GPS apps for my iPhone: - Greenfinder - ViewTi - Golfshot GPS Golfshot is by far the best for me. It's the most user friendly and has the best statistics and analysis features. It's been totally accurate also on the 10 to 15 courses that I've used it on. Battery life is a concern, but if you do the following before you start your round, you'll get around no problem with plenty of battery life to spare: - Turn your brightness down, I use about 40% and can see the screen fine even here in sunny California - Go to Settings->General and switch auto-lock to 5 minutes, that way you don't need to deal with re-locking the GPS so often - Manually turn the screen off when you're close to the green, and back on when you're done with the hole (which you'll do anyway as you'll be entering your score) I also bought this combination holster/battery backup for my iPhone, for those 36 hole days: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ef=oss_product