TaylorMade has multiple new club releases planned for Fall 2008, starting with the next generation of the Burner driver.

A couple Rossa putters are included among the new sticks, including one that's Itsy Bitsy. And two new iron sets will arrive in pro shops, the Burner Plus and the Tour Preferred irons.

Check out TaylorMade's Fall lineup.

Who has the longest current streak of par-or-better rounds? Three guesses .... wrong, wrong, wrong. It's Glen Day. Day hasn't been above par in his last 21 rounds.

That little nugget was included in the PGA Tour's weekly "e-notes" blast. Along with:

• Vijay Singh now has eight wins in playoffs, and that's the sixth-best total in PGA Tour history. Singh's playoff record is 8-4. The recordholders for most playoff wins are Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, with 14 each. See the record book: Most playoff wins on the PGA Tour

• The biggest mover in the FedEx Cup standings after the first playoff tournament was Kevin Streelman, who climbed 65 spots. Other big gainers: Martin Laird, 61 spots; Kevin Sutherland, 54 spots; Paul Casey, 52 spots; Mathew Goggin, 50 spots.

In an exclusive report posted on Golfweek.com, Golfweek senior writer Beth Ann Baldry reveals that the LPGA has become the first golf tour in the world to adopt an "official language." Beginning at the end of 2009, members of the LPGA Tour will undergo "oral evaluations" of their proficiency at speaking English. Those who fail will be suspended from the tour.

Presumably, this rule will apply only to golfers for whom English is not their native language, although the Tour may want to test all players and also suspend those with too many ums, you knows, likes and whatevers.

While there are 121 international players on the LPGA Tour, 45 of those are Korean, and many more Asian, and this rule is surely aimed squarely at the Asian players. English and Korean (or Japanese, or various Chinese dialects and other languages spoken in Asia) are completely dissimilar from English, evolved from different language families, and for an adult who speaks one to learn the other is, well, hard.

Add in the nerves that many young Asian players surely feel trying to conduct interviews, add in the whole cultural consideration of living in a new country, add in - in some cases - a good dose of basic shyness, and doing your interviews in English or chatting up your pro-am playing partners is a difficult thing.

But that's what the new rules are about: Read more...

The PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs move to Round 2 this week, with the Top 120 players in the standings gaining entry into the Deutsche Bank Championship. This is where Phil Mickelson outdueled Tiger Woods head-to-head in 2007. Woods, of course, isn't there this year, although he still ranks 15th in points after the first week of the playoffs.

The PGA Tour tweaked the playoff points formula this year hoping to generate more up-and-down movement from week to week. How much movement was there after The Barclays? Here's a comparison of the Top 10 and the players in spots 111-120 (120 being the cutoff to get into the Deutsche Bank):

Top 10 Before Barclays 1. Tiger Woods 2. Kenny Perry 3. Phil Mickelson 4. Padraig Harrington 5. Anthony Kim 6. Stewart Cink 7. Vijay Singh 8. Justin Leonard 9. Ryuji Imada 10. Geoff Ogilvy 111-120 Before Barclays 111. Nick Watney 112. Zach Johnson 113. Vaughn Taylor 114. Rich Beem 115. Charles Warren 116. Bo Van Pelt 117. Dustin Johnson 118. Brett Quigley 119. Bob Tway 120. Patrick Sheehan

Top 10 After Barclays 1. Vijay Singh 2. Sergio Garcia 3. Kevin Sutherland 4. Phil Mickelson 5. Justin Leonard 6. Anthony Kim 7. Kenny Perry 8. Ben Curtis 9. Stewart Cink 10. Jim Furyk 111-120 After Barclays 111. Glen Day 112. Frank Lickliter II 113. Steve Flesch 114. Corey Pavin 115. Jeff Overton 116. Justin Bolli 117. Michael Letzig 118. Fred Couples 119. Lee Janzen 120. Alex Cejka

That's quite a bit of movement - a little bit inside the Top 10, certainly more than there would have been in 2007; and a lot at the other end. Every player from 111-120 is different after The Barclays.