Top 100 TOUR Players to Watch in 2010: No. 17

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Dec. 20, 2009

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Regular Season Rank	13
Playoff Rank	13
Bonus Money	280,000

After something of an enigmatic season, Geoff Ogilvy will be looking for consistency in 2010. He started last year out like gangbusters with two wins in his first five starts but couldn't maintain that momentum the rest of the way. A career-high $3.8 million was nothing to sneeze at, of course. Nor was the way he dominated at the season-opening, winners-only Mercedes-Benz Championship where he won by six or his steady march through to a second World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship title. But Ogilvy told the Australian Age last month that "I started trying a bit too hard, I guess." He hit a lot of balls to try to regain the form he lost and tended to forget about scoring. He did close out the year with a solo seventh at the Deutsche Bank Championship and a tie for 10th at the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions, though, which bodes well for 2010.


Seems to bloom in spring and fade by late summer. Looking to try to sustain it all year. What he lacks in consistency he makes up for in getting the job done when it is all going his way.

Ogilvy led the TOUR in approaches from the rough that measured between 125 and 150 yards. On average, he hit them to 25 feet, seven inches, 10 feet closer than the TOUR average.

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