Ogilvie Uses Burner® Driver to Cruise to Four-Stroke Victory
CARLSBAD, Calif. (July 24, 2007) – TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company Tour Staff professionals Joe Ogilvie and Tom Scherrer won tour events this week by four strokes each. Ogilvie, who played the TaylorMade Burner driver, shot a final-round 67 to finish at 14-under and win the PGA Tour’s U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee. Likewise, Scherrer easily won the Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr. Pepper by posting scores of 66-63-66-67, the lowest four-round total of the Nationwide Tour season.
Ogilvie’s win was the sixth professional worldwide victory by a player using TaylorMade’s new Burner® driver.* He ranked eighth in driving accuracy and 13th in driving distance.The Burner driver is engineered to promote greater distance through faster speed. Faster swing speed. Learn more.
Aside from his consistency off the tee, Ogilvie also finished among the leaders statistically in putting. Using a TaylorMade Rossa® Lemans putter, he ranked fifth in putts per greens in regulation and tied for eighth in putts per round.**
In Ogilvie’s bag:
TaylorMade Burner driver
TaylorMade V Steel® 3-wood
TaylorMade Burner TP 18° 5-wood
TaylorMade Rescue® TP 21° hybrid
TaylorMade r7® TP irons 4-PW
TaylorMade Rossa Lemans putter
Strong driving was also vital to Scherrer’s victory, as he averaged
300.5 yards off the tee using a TaylorMade r7 quad driver with Movable Weight Technologyâ?¢. He also played a r7 TP 3-wood. With the win, Scherrer catapulted from No. 62 to No. 14 on the Nationwide Tour money list, an important jump considering that the top 25 at the end of the season are awarded playing privileges on the PGA Tour. The win represented the eighth time this season a TaylorMade driver has been used to win a Nationwide event.
Including Ogilvie, 17 players put the Burner driver in play at the U.S. Bank Championship making it the most popular driver model at the event, 23 players made Burner the most-played driver model at the Price Cutter Charity Championship and at The Open Championship at Carnoustie, the Burner driver was the No. 1 model with 17 in play. In total, TaylorMade led the brand count in drivers, fairway woods and hybrids at both PGA events as well at the Nationwide event.***
*Darrell Survey
** PGATOUR.com
***Darrell Survey model counts, 2007 Open Championship, U.S. Bank Championship and Price Cutter Charity Championship
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