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Winners and Losers at The Masters

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17 years ago

Apr 15, 2009

The Masters was back in all its glory. Birdies and eagles galore as good weather and a generous setup gave us one of the best Masters in recent memory. Bag Chatter takes a look at those that flourished alongside the Magnolias and those that withered.

The Winners

Angel Cabrera
A second Major for the 2007 US Open Champion. He won plenty of fans with his relaxed swing and booming distance but won the Masters with a short game that made the difficult look simple. He took his luck when he had it, most notably on the first hole of the play-off when his second from the trees found wood but ended up bang in the middle of the fairway at perfect wedge distance, and made it count when he had to when he hit that perfect wedge to make the up and down.

Kenny Perry
For every single person that thought less of him for not playing in Majors in the cause to get into the Ryder Cup there will be a hundred regarding him in a better light for how he handled himself here. Despite a bogey-bogey finish, here was a golfer on possibly the biggest stage in world golf high-fiving a competitor who just sank a putt to take it to play-off. Not only that but when it came down to just him and Cabrera and the Argentinean won, the first person to congratulate Cabrera was Perry. Sheer class all the way and a lesson on how to treat failure as the impostor that Kipling described.

Shingo Katayama
The boy in the cowboy hat got game. While Katayama has won over 25 times on the Japanese Tour, his performance here catapulted him into the awareness of a worldwide audience where a fourth place may finally make some think that the other Tours are catching up to the US PGA.

Phil Mickelson
Struggling to get it going after 3 days he turned it on in full at the start of the last day. Going out in 30 at Augusta is just not done but Philly Mick gave a masterclass in taking a course to pieces. It it hadn’t been for his misfortune at Rae’s Creek and his putter going stone cold, we might have been writing about a different winner. Playing with Tiger on a Sunday he showed that even in the short period that Tiger has been away that things have changed. Regularly smashing it 30 yards past Woods it was only a few missed putts that stopped him making an epic charge.

Augusta National
The last few years have seen the back nine at Agusta reduced to a grind of which the US Open would be envious. The legendary back nine charges of yesteryear were just that, legends, but this year the setup was matched to perfect ‘Goldilocks’ conditions (not too hot, not too cold) and the finish was more than anyone could have imagined.

The Losers

Padraig Harrington
No Paddy-slam as he finished T35. While that’s not exactly a failure by any other standard he won’t be happy as he just never seemed to get going.

Sergio Garcia
One more Major ticked off and another missed opportunity for the Spaniard. The millstone of being the ‘greatest golfer never to win a Major’ must weight heavier each time another one that passes.

Ernie Els
The world number 16 missed the cut. Saying that you want to be the world number one is one thing, actually getting there has proven to be a whole other ball game for the Big Easy who has not been the force he was coming back from his injury lay-off.

Adam Scott
The owner of possible the best looking swing in the game of golf was comprehensively upstaged by a bunch of players who look like Harryhausen stop-motion figures in comparison. Like Els he missed the cut and apparently will be needing knee surgery in the near future.

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Photos from the 2026 OccuNet Classic

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57 mins ago

Jun 9, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

With the PGA Tour across the border in Canada this week, GolfWRX Tour Photographer Greg Moore stayed stateside and headed to the OccuNet Classic presented by Amarillo National Bank in Amarillo, Texas.

It’s always interesting to see what the guys are playing on the KFT, and this week certainly hasn’t disappointed so far, with some incredible wedge stamping on display.

Check out links to all our albums below.

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2026 OccuNet Classic (KFT) – Monday #1

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Luke Potter’s custom Cameron putter – 2026 OccuNet Classic (KFT)

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From the GolfWRX Classifieds: Scotty Cameron GOLO 6 with BGT Stability Tour2 2022 M Edition

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1 hour ago

Jun 9, 2026

Will Schube

At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals who all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.

It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.

Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, @HuskerFlyer is sharing a Scotty Cameron GOLO with a BGT Stability Tour2 2022 M Edition shaft. While the putter is certainly enviable, the Augusta-inspired shaft is equally noteworthy.

From the listing:

Scotty Cameron Golo 6 with BGT Stability Tour2 2022 M Edition Scotty Headcover 34″ $375

To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link. If you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum, you can learn more here: GolfWRX BST Rules.

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J.T. Poston delivers career-changing victory after major gear changes

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23 hours ago

Jun 8, 2026

Alistair Cameron

J.T. Poston required extra holes Sunday to earn a handshake from Jack Nicklaus himself and walk away with the biggest victory of his career.

Poston outlasted Ryan Gerard on the second playoff hole at the Memorial Tournament, and the victory at Jack’s place was aided by two significant gear switches ahead of the tournament in Ohio.

Firstly, Poston swapped from the Titleist Pro V1x to the new Pro V1x Left Dash in his last start at the Charles Schwab Challenge. It’s the ball that made headlines just a month ago, when Jordan Spieth also transitioned into the low-spinning variant at the Cadillac Championship.

Poston’s ball change was spurred by a discussion with Titleist Tour reps about testing some options that could be a little better for him in the wind, after the now four-time PGA Tour winner had gained slightly more speed of late and was feeling like his irons and full wedge shots were overspinning.

Poston spent time testing both the current-generation Pro V1 and the new Left Dash at home the week after the PGA Championship, and at Colonial Country Club, he spent more time dialing things in on the range with J.J. Van Wezenbeeck before deciding to tee up the Left Dash that week. At the time, Poston was 85th in SG: Approach (+0.024); he gained +1.402 at Colonial.

“So we felt like today was going to be a good test of that and it obviously performed really well,” Poston said after a second-round 65 at Muirfield Village which propelled him into the lead. “We had a couple shots that I felt like didn’t quite hit ’em perfect and it hung in there pretty well. So I feel like just having that confidence in that too is big, where I just — we’re trying to hit the smart shot and hit the right shot and just trying to execute and go from there.”

On his way to victory, Poston delivered a dominant performance from tee-to-green and was +8.081 in approach and tied for fourth in greens in regulation.

Poston’s Memorial victory was also the first on Tour for the new torched line of TaylorMade’s 2026 Spider putters. Poston also added the L-Neck Tour X at the Charles Schwab Challenge the week prior, something prompted because “it seems to be working for a lot of the other guys.”

A usually reliable putter, Poston had dropped to as low as 89th on Tour in strokes gained, and when he saw his good friend Denny McCarthy using the Spider, he thought about the change. With the new flatstick in hand, Poston gained close to seven shots on the field at the Memorial and ranked third in SG: Putting for the week.

Poston was the first to agree, though, that neither switch was more important than the other.

“The ball got me there, the putter helped me get it in the hole,” Poston said.

See Poston’s full winning WITB here.