This year's PGA Grand Slam may still be fresh in the memory, but Port Royal Golf Course boss Andrew Brooks is already looking to next year.

The director of golf said he thought this month's tournament had surpassed all expectations, and with glowing reviews from the PGA and broadcaster TNT in his pocket, Brooks will now begin planning for 2010.

More than 4,000 people came through the gates on the final day of the event, and that number could easily double if Tiger Woods wins a major and makes his long-anticipated trip to the Island.

"I think it surpassed people's expectations, and you could hear people in the crowd saying how good it (the event) was," said Brooks. "I think the numbers were bigger than we thought they were going to be, there were more than 4,000 on that last day, there was a big crowd there on the Wednesday.

"The PGA and TNT they were thoroughly......we've had some real glowing reports from those guys, which is great which makes everything that much better.

"We've set a standard for next year, and we've got to hit it, and if the big man (Tiger Woods) turns up then we'll see double that crowd. I'm looking forward to next year now, and I'll be more interested in the majors, to see who wins them, and who we get."

One of the accusations thrown at the course prior to the event was that professional golfers would find it too easy, and while Lucas Glover shot 11-under over two rounds, Brooks said it just proved how good you had to be to win a major.

"The great thing about the Grand Slam, it allows people to get up close and personal to those players," he said. "They are the major champions, and you don't realise, until you are there and you are watching them, how good they are.

"Those guys played fantastically well, it wasn't a case that the course was playing particularly easy, because it wasn't, it shows you how good those guys are.

"They said they used all the clubs in their bag, and that proves that it's a well-designed golf course, and by any golfers standard that's the sign of a good golf course, especially with those guys, because everybody thought they were going to hit a driver and a flick (to get from tee to green)."

Hosting the Grand Slam has already had a knock-on effect, with Port Royal's phone ringing off the hook with groups from abroad wanting to come and play the course, and Brooks said that could only be a good thing for the Island in general.

"It has created a massive wave (of interest), and the whole point of it (the Grand Slam), was about golf in Bermuda," he said. "It's not just about golf at Port Royal, which it is, but it has just given golf a most massive jump. That was the name of the game, was to promote Bermuda as a golf destination, and it did that, it ticked all the boxes on that front.

"There was nothing about that event that struck me as being disappointing, and the PGA want to come back, which is the main thing."