As 2011 draws to a close, many golf web sites are doing their reviews of the past year in golf and some previews for 2012.  There are some fun countdowns, reviews and previews.  Here are a few:

• PGA Tour's 2012 PGA Tour Preview covers the top 100 players to watch.  In a way that is sort of funny, because the top 100 are pretty much the ones which will be in the spotlight anyway.

• The PGA Tour Facebook page has a cool photo spread, the TOUR photographer's best of 2011.

• The PGA Tour web site also has the top 10 shots of the year, with of course Bill Haas's $10 million lake shot as number 1.

• Golf Channel posted their top 10 most read stories of the year, based on web traffic.

• A more creative top 10 list from Golf Channel is the Top 10 shots taken at Tiger in 2011.

• Lexi Thompson and Keegan Bradley make Golf.com's top 10 breakout golfers of 2011.

• Golf.com also does an image gallery of the top 10 biggest disappointments of 2011.  Inside are Graeme McDowell, Michell Wie, Jim Furyk and 7 others.

• Fun to look at Yahoo UK & Ireland's top five golf stories of 2011.

• On the gear end of things, Golf Digest has a list of the top 10 biggest equipment stories of 2011.  Frogger Golf must have come in at #11.

• On the golf blogging end of things,  GolfBlogger.com posted a preview of 2012 with some predictions, some reasonable and some not.  Hooked On Golf Blog did a look back at 2011 pro golf: part one - part two.