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Yes! Golf celebrates capturing five victories in past two weeks

2010-07-15

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The weekend saw a masterful return to consistent Tour form for one of golf's most legendary names - Yes! Golf. At the Barclays Scottish Open in Loch Lomond, Edoardo Molinari battled the foulest Scottish weather and a dangerously able-looking Darren Clarke to win his maiden European Tour victory.

Molinari is not only a very handy all-rounder on the golf course and hugely well-liked, he is also one of the most gifted putters of his generation. According to Edoardo's putting coach Phil Kenyon* the 29 year-old from Turin truly understands the old maxim of 'putting for dough', and he spends a remarkable amount of time and focus on perfecting his skills with the flatstick. The hours he puts in can clearly be seen in his metronomic accuracy with the putter and the steady nerve with which he performs one he's safely on the green.

His consistency is due also in large part to the fact that he has kept the same putter in the bag for 5 years - a Yes! Callie.

A week ago and on the other side of the world, meanwhile, Kiwi Michael Hendry used his Yes! Dawn Putter to clinch the biggest victory of his career in the US$1 million Indonesia Open presented at the Damai Indah Golf & Country Club's Pantai Indah Kapuk course. The 30 year-old from North Harbour sealed his victory with an authoritative run of 7 birdies on the 6 th, 8 th, 9 th, 11 th, 12 th, 13 th and 14 th holes. Hendry switched from using a Yes! Callie-f about 12 months ago. Since then he won the Fiji Open two weeks ago and was a back-to-back winner of titles on New Zealand's domestic Tour in May. He currently leads the money list in New Zealand - an award he claimed last year for the first time.

In the USA, 21 year old Gunner Wiebe (son of Champion Tour player Mark) won the Colorado State Match Play championship last week. In one stretch of 30 holes over two matches, Gunner was 15 under par including four eagles. Gunner uses a Yes! Donna model (dad Mark has been using a Yes! Natalie for several years, but is now experimenting with the Donna).

Back in Europe and the last weekend in June saw yet another European Tour maiden victory for a Yes! Golfer, as English former Walker Cup star David Horsey stormed past five others from his round 3 position of T5th and five strokes off the lead to win the BMW International at Eichenried in Munich. A bogey-free closing round of 67 underscored Horsey's superb gift with the flatstick, sealing the deal as he did with a six-foot putt on the 18th after a very handy approach shot. Horsey's 2008 Challenge Tour season saw him clinch two season victories just a fortnight apart at the Telenet Trophy and the AGF-Allianz Open in Lyon.

Finally, while the Indonesian Open was being put in the bag, at the China Fleet Country Club in Cornwall, former Royal Navy diver Mike Mayo used his Yes! Victoria Putter to produce a magnificent 11-under nett score of 277 to win the British Blind Masters 2010. Mayo's visual impairment almost became a non-disability for the fanatical golfer when with his first outing with the Yes! putter went to win the 2008 British Blind Open in Ireland. The distinctive aiming chevron on the top of the Victoria's putter head gave the Midlothian golfer a real grip over his macular degenerative condition. And with the frequency of use came growing confidence with the heft, and performance characteristics for him that he has become a regular winner on the blind golf circuit. With his longtime caddy Barry Williams on the bag, he entered the final round 17 strokes in the lead, but his sweetest strike of the tournament was a 20-foot putt downhill and across the green at the par 5 13th for a final lead of 18 shots.

It's an astounding run of successful playing for Yes! Golf - an organization that rose to #2 position on the European Tour in 2007 / 2008 despite being a fraction of the size of the Big Five golf club brands against whom the David-and-Goliath business competes for a place in the bags of Tour golfers all over the world. With the 150th Open next on the Tour calendar, are they excited or what?

*Phil Kenyon is Director of Instruction at the Harold Swash Putting School of Excellence

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