Lake Valley Golf and Country Club (www.lakevalleygolf.com) provides the most unique scorecard of all the courses at the Lake. Their 6 – 6 – 6 layout, meaning 6 par 5's, 6 par-4's and 6 par-3's provides ample scoring chances, that is if you can find an uphill putt. Factor in the overall course length of just 6,373 from the back tees and you might think you are about to play a pushover round.

Of all the golf courses you hear about at the Lake of the Ozarks, The Golf Club at Deer Chase is a well kept secret.

Tiger Woods is reportedly out of the rehabilitation center in Arizona and has returned home to Orlando. Whether or not he is with his family is not known, but Tiger is apparently making the next step in his return to life on the PGA Tour. Last week on The Back Nine we spoke with Jaime Diaz, Golf Digest Senior Writer, who arguably is as close to Tiger and his family as any journalist cover the world's top player over the last 20 years. If you haven't seen Jaime's articles on Tiger over the last several weeks, check out www.golfdigest.com and give them a read, you won't be disappointed.

The LPGA Tour is in a state of crisis with Commissioner Bivens ousted by the players and the American players not winning enough.

If there had been any doubt as to whether the best player in the world was back in top form, the critics were answered on Sunday afternoon in Dublin, Ohio at the Memorial Tournament.