[b]Our man outlines the factors that he thinks will determine the winner of the year's final major and given all the evidence, he fancies Watney might just Nick it...[/b]
"Glory's Last Shot" is the strapline for the year's final major and after a poor performance at both the US Masters and US Open and only a modest profit at the Open Championship; it feels a bit like that for yours truly.
The host course this week is the Highlands Course at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Georgia - a venue last used ten years ago when David Toms beat [b]Phil Mickelson[/b] by a solitary stroke, kicking off a run of three almost impossible to predict results.
Toms had been a triple-figure price and he was followed in by the even more implausible pair of Rich Beem in '02 and Shaun Micheel in '03 but...
There has been much debate amongst golf fans as to when and whether a certain [b]Tiger Eldrick Woods[/b] will be the force he once was. Personally, I, somewhat naively, thought he'd be back in the groove pretty much straight away and I've squandered more than a few pounds trying to catch him at a decent price on his return to the winners' enclosure.
If someone had told me a year ago that 2010 would be a completely barren year for the game's greatest exponent I'd have thought they were mad, but here we are on the eve of 2011 and the question remains the same: will he ever be the same again?
A relatively successful [b]Ryder Cup[/b], a decent attempt down under at the JB Were Masters, and a very close shave at his own event (the Chevron World Challenge) all add up to a Tiger on the ...