The winner Geoff Ogilvy

Those rolling greens prompted eventual discount golf clubs winner Geoff Ogilvy to say, "It is a big local knowledge kind of course."

But it was true - he and fellow finalist Paul Casey are both Arizona residents who saw plenty of the taylormade r9 driver course before the rest of the field, many of whom were less tactful than Ogilvy when discussing the humps and hollows that had a habit of kicking apparently good approach shots right off the green(ishiner).

It should also be noted that after four rounds of matches the last four men standing could all send the ball a fair distance from the tee (Stewart Cink and Ross Fisher completed the semi final line up).

That was not just helpful given the length of the callaway x-22 irons course, but also because the nearer a player was to the green, the higher he could send the approach, taking the nasty ricochets out of the equation.

Local knowledge might be slightly less of a factor this year, but the need titleist ap2 irons for length may remain.

Thoughts obviously turn to last year's finalists but there are doubts about both - Ogilvy's wife Julie has recently given birth to a baby boy and whilst some will jump on the 'nappy factor' I'm willing to wait a few weeks before taylormade r7 cgb max Irons that plays out.

Casey, meanwhile, seems to remain a little inconvenienced by injury and the odd wild round he keeps throwing in puts me off at best price 22/1.