Irish Amateur Shane Lowry secured victory at The 3 Irish Open at Co Louth GC, Baltray, in his first ever appearance at a World Ranking Qualifying event as he beat Robert Rock at the third extra hole. A second round of 62 had given Lowry a two stroke lead after 36 holes and two final rounds of 71 meant a tie with Rock who also shot a final round of 71. While Lowry couldn't claim any of the prize money on offer he does have the compensation of qualification for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the WGC-HSBC Champions. Lowry started the week at 16th in the R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking and after this win is a new entry into the Official World Golf Ranking at 168th.

Zach Johnson sank a ten foot birdie putt at the first extra hole to successfully defend his Valero Texas Open title beating James Driscoll who had earlier surged from eight strokes back at La Cantera Golf Club to post a target of 15-under-par 265. Johnson's second win of 2009, and third in just over 6 months, takes him to World Number 19, an improvement of 7 positions.

This week's other winners were Michael Sim at the BMW Charity Pro-Am on the Nationwide Tour, Bae Sang-moon at the GS Caltex Maekyung Open on the Asian Tour and Lee S James at the ALLIANZ Open Cotes d'Armor Bretagne on the Challenge Tour.