What a year it’s been for Crawford Reeves.

The Eastside High senior capped a memorable season last week by being selected a first-team Rolex Junior All-American by the American Junior Golf Association.

Reeves won his first two AJGA titles this season to accompany his second Blade Junior Classic title. He also qualified for the U.S. Amateur Championship in August and ended the season ranked No. 10 in the AJGA Polo Golf Rankings.

Reeves earned his first national title when he shared medalist honors at the Golf World/Medicus Preseason Junior at Furman University in April.

The next month, he won the Scott Robertson Memorial in Roanoke, Va., outright.

“This was my best season yet. It was very consistent,” Reeves said. “Winning the (Memorial) was the turning point in my season. Knowing that I could go to a national tournament and compete was a big confidence boost for me. That changed my mindset for the rest of the year.”

Reeves will be eligible to compete in AJGA events next year until he enrolls at Clemson University next fall.

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Playing golf with your Sunday group is a completely different animal then playing and preparing for golf tournaments.

The Golf Swing Help Site recently announced a new endorsement, the Dual Hinge Medicus 5 Iron Golf Swing Trainer, aimed at greatly improving the golf swing mechanics of its clients.
Nishal Singh, affiliate manager of the Golf Swing Help Site and experienced golfer, is excited about the wide range of products recommend on his site. He knows firsthand that the Medicus line of trainers are effective as his own handicaps were cut in half after using the Medicus golf clubs, particularly the Dual Hinge Medicus 5 Iron Golf Swing Trainer.

Ben Hogan once explained the reason for his slow motion practice swings by saying, “At this pace I can control the golf club and everything in my swing. Whenever I’m working on something I always do it in slow motion. That way I can monitor what I am doing.”
Likewise those using the Dual Hinge Medicus 5 Iron Golf Swing Trainer will quickly learn that it requires the golfer to move extremely slowly in order to identify the golf swing mechanics that need improvement. Any issue in tempo or plane will result in the club breaking, forcing the golfer to take the time to identify what aspect of the golf swing mechanics need improvement. With practice and patience the Dual Hinge Medicus 5 Iron Golf Swing Trainer can dramatically improve the golf swing.

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Anthony Kim has joined the European Tour for next season, leading what is expected to become a migration of high-profile American golfers to spend more time playing in lucrative tournaments overseas.

The 23-year-old Kim, who has shot up to No. 8 in the world rankings, paid the mandatory 2,000 British pound (C$3,998) fee for membership but will depend on invitations for any event he plays in, the European Tour said Wednesday. He is scheduled to play at the HSBC Championships in Shanghai from Nov. 6-9.

The tour said Camilo Villegas of Colombia had also paid the dues to become a member, meaning both players can feature in next season’s Dubai World Championships, a US$20-million tournament that will replace the Volvo Masters from 2009 as the season finale to determine the tour’s leading player.

“Anytime you get players from the calibre of Camilo and Anthony into the tour, it’s great. It’s an asset, it’s good for golf, it’s good for the European Tour,” Sergio Garcia said.

Mike Weir of Bright’s Grove, Ont., and Phil Mickelson and have also talked about playing more in Europe next season, and Garcia said he expects several other PGA Tour players to seize on the moneymaking opportunities offered overseas.

“Some of the tournaments we play in the Middle East … are bigger than the ones they play in the U.S. You get good players there, so world rankings points increase,” Garcia said. “At the end of the day, that’s what the big players do it for.”

Over the last six months, Kim has emerged as one of golf’s brightest young prospect with victories in the Wachovia Championship and AT&T National at Congressional, along with a starring role in the United States’ victory at the Ryder Cup. Kim had begun the year at No. 75 in the world.

The 26-year-old Villegas is ranked seventh, meaning eight of the world’s 10 best players will feature in Europe in 2009.

“If you want the tour to grow and get to the level that it deserves, there’s no doubt that you need those big players,” Garcia said from the Volvo Masters.

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Sergio Garcia has spoken of his delight at the fact that both Anthony Kim and Camilo Villegas have agreed to join the European Tour next season.

Kim and Villegas have now confirmed their intentions to play on both sides of the Atlantic by paying their European Tour joining fees.

Garcia revealed he had played a part in convincing the duo to take up their membership and feels they will prove to be huge assets.

“It’s great,” said Garcia ahead of the Volvo Masters where he will be looking to add to his triumph at the Castello Masters last week – an event at which Villegas made his European debut.

“I think any time you can get players of the calibre of Camilo and Anthony into the Tour, it’s great.

“It’s an asset and it’s good for golf. It’s good for the European Tour and it’s nice to see those guys move around a little bit and not only play in the US.

“We’ll welcome them with open arms and we hope they can enjoy it as much as we do.”

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There absolutely is no truth to the rumour that Mike Weir predicted a 58 in yesterday’s final round of the Frys.com Open at the Grayhawk Golf Club’s Raptor course.

That number would have put Weir into the history books and won him the tournament for the second year in a row. His lighthearted remark described the way he was feeling, combined with the spectacular conditions in the Valley of the Sun.

“I didn’t predict it,” Weir said with a grin. “I said: ‘I’m going to go after it.’ I didn’t predict anything, but I was going to try.”

Weir’s style all along never has had anything to do with boasts. When he has hit the peaks of his career, it’s always his clubs talking and they were doing just that after Weir came into the last round seven shots off the lead and tied for 24th.

Yesterday, he recorded six birdies and an eagle against just one bogey to finish with a seven-under 63. It wasn’t enough to successfully defend his 2007 Frys.com championship, but it was enough to send him into the off-season in a positive frame of mind.

“(Yesterday), the conditions were right to go after it. The greens were fairly soft. It was a day, from the position I was in, I really needed to try to attack,” said Weir, who tied for fourth.

“I had plenty of opportunities to even be lower. I missed probably four or five putts inside 10 feet. It really, really could have been a special round, but it was still a great round, a good way to finish on the last hole with a nice 25-footer (for birdie).”

Weir won’t play again until the Chevron World Challenge, hosted by Tiger Woods, just before Christmas.

“After this week, I’m off until Tiger’s event in California, but I’m just going to try to be at home,” said Weir, adding that he isn’t tempted to try one more event after the 63.

“I’m tired,” he said. “I put everything I had into this week and practised hard. I’m ready for a break and my family’s ready for me to be home for awhile.”

His performance yesterday did provide a spectacular finish, but not as spectacular as last year when Weir came down the stretch with a win against Woods at the Presidents Cup and the victory in Scottsdale, which ended a winless streak of three-and-a-half years.

“I think it definitely restored some confidence. I still was confident in my game and I was playing well,” recalled Weir, who had gone 87 starts without a win before tying the late George Knudson for most victories by a Canadian on the PGA Tour with his triumph in Scottsdale.

“When you’re able to do that, come through, it just reminds you that you can still do it when you need to and have to do it.

“It was a much nicer off-season, finishing with a win like that. I did go overseas and play and represent Canada in the World Cup in China last year, but outside of that, it was a nice, relaxing, very satisfying off-season with the way I finished the year with the Presidents Cup and winning here,” he said.

It appeared that Weir would bolt from the gate in 2008 when he finished fourth at the season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship at Kapalua, but that was his lone top-10 until the beginning of June when Weir tied for second at the Memorial.

That finish illustrated that work on his short game was starting to pay off. While the latter stages of this year didn’t include a tournament win or a victory against the No. 1 player in the world, it was sprinkled with some sugar as Weir now has seven top-10s since the Memorial, including four in his last five events.

While the final stages of last season, when he recorded just four top-10s all year, was all about wins, the latter part of 2008 is all about consistency, especially in the FedEx Cup playoffs in which Weir tied for seventh at The Barclays, was runner-up at the Deutsche Bank and tied for sixth at the Tour Championship.

It’s enough to send him into the off-season into a positive frame of mind, especially since dialing in his wedges and improving his putting over the last few months of the season.

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Defending champ Mike Weir tees off the par three 8th hole during the final round of the Frys.Com Open held at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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