In the Rough

World number one he is, the greatest ever golfer to play the game he may be, the biggest reason fans turn out to watch golf???

Well this is the thinking behind the organisers of the Australian Masters as American Tiger Woods will be making an appearance in Australia for the first time in over a decade, when the Australian Masters starts in November.

The organisers of the Australian Masters in Melbourne have opted to pay Tiger Woods $3 Million (£2.1 Million) to make an appearance alone.

The news has created some great debate with most people thinking it is a good thing for a golf and Tiger Woods playing in the Australian Masters alone could bring $9 Million to the Australian economy.

The $3 Million appearance fee will be made up from tax payers and the government support for the event scheme.

Many golfers out there are superstitious about there fortunes in golf, I’m sure they make a lot of prayers or promises if things work or go well for them in a tournament, then they will do something good for someone else in the future. But I’m wondering have they ever thought of asking a psychic if they can predict there fortune. One famous psychic is a gentleman and from personal experience an amazing accurate friendly professional, Mr, David Charles Psychic.

The Psychic has done readings for the rich and famous and is renown in the industry for honest accurate reading with the utmost professionalism.

David Charles Psychic advised myself and my partner and 90% of what he said was scarily spot on an as you expect 10% was based on generic scenarios which I’m not sure were related or not but still I was very impressed.

If you are going to try something like this stick to a professional psychic and try David Charles Psychic and see what the future holds for you.

This may seem like a bizarre title of an article but it is true.

The 2009 European Tour is already fifteen events down this year but has yet to actually physically happen in Europe. So far we have seen golf in Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and South Africa but no European event has been held on the European Continent, well that is until this weekend.

The European Tour heads to Portugal with the Madeira Islands Open staged this week.

However it doesn’t have big names playing. The highest rank player at the Madeira Island Open is Anthony Wall who is only 81st in the World.

With the world number one American Tiger Woods just returning from a long injury lay off and American golfer Phil Mickelson producing some breathtaking golf and returning to the World Number two spot in golf are we about to see the Tiger Woods v Phil Mickelson battle we have been craving for years??

Okay so Tiger isn’t quite back to his best and maybe he is saving himself for the Masters on April 6 but over the next few weeks and at The Masters Mickelson really does have a good chance to lay down the gauntlet to Tiger and maybe even push for him for that Number One spot.

American Phil Mickelson has won the World Golf Championship - CA in Florida.

Going in to the final day Mickelson had to overcome heat exhaustion, mild dehydration, a hospital trip after the third round and a very persistent Nick Watney to win his first World Golf Championship.

The two Americans started the final round together four shots ahead of the field and soon extended that lead to seven strokes with some very good golf. Both golfers always looked like they would finish one and two but the big question was who is going to beat the other into first place and claim their second title of the season.

We soon knew the answer after a bogey on 11 and 12 for Watney put Mickelson in the driving seat and from there he went on to win by one stroke.

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson has done what someone hasn’t done in years, upstaged World Number One Tiger Woods.

Okay it wasn’t through his actual game play but because of some very odd behaviour during the first round of the WGC-CA Championship.

On the third hole Stenson came into a bit of trouble when his tee shot narrowly missed the water and bedded itself into the bank in all the mud.

Stenson decided that this shot was playable though and to save his clothes from getting very muddy / wet through the rest of the round stripped down into a pair of white fronts, which was to the crowd’s amusement.