So thats about it, stateside anyway.
So the final PGA tour event of 2011 went off without a hitch, Robert Garrigus, him of sweaty pants and 18th hole meltdown at Memphis St Jude Classic, laid that ghost to rest with a stunning last round resulting in victory.
Roland Thatcher, who had at one point had a six shot lead on Saturday, painfully managed to secure second place on his own after a somewhat mysterious three putt by Spencer Levin on the final green. He keeps his card for next year.
Troy Merritt managed to keep his card on the number (125) and then went out and took a million dollars of Kodak's money from the noses of Aaron Baddley and Rickie Fowler.
Summarised like that you would think that it was reasonably entertaining.
Firstly the course is pretty dull and not much of a challenge - on TV it seemed pretty flat. We regularly went back to Rob Lee and Mark Roe who were feigning excitement about the leading players, particularly Thatcher spilling his guts with putter in hand. I appreciate it has been a long season but it was pretty apparent that Rob Lee's tongue was firmly in his cheek.
The fall series is dying a death with now the Viking Classic moving into a mid season slot and the three week delay between the first four events and the final Disney one seems really messy.
I love watching the PGA Tour but to be honest the Fed Ex was pretty disappointing and I haven't been enthused by any US based pro golf since the PGA. It's like it was dying a slow death from the first Fed Ex event onwards.
Europe relocating to the far east faired better last week with Adam Scott winning a lot of money and Graeme McDowell closing in on Martin Kaymer. At least if McDowell does well at Hong Kong this week, there could be some genuine competitive excitement relating to the Race To Dubai.
Unfortunately GMac three putted the last two, losing himself £112k which would have been handy in keeping up with the Kaymer but it is still doable for him and I think he's got some nice momentum going.
