South African Branden Grace beat compatriots Ernie Els and Retief Goosen in a playoff after they had each finished on 12-under-par to claim
the Volvo World Champions title at the Fancourt Links on Sunday.

Maybe the PGA Tour has plenty of venues from which to place a tournament and they can afford to alienate one of golf's biggest supporters in the Jemsek's. And if that's the case, more power to them. But I have a hard time believing this is the image the PGA Tour wants to portray - that of an ungrateful, entitled, scorned, spoiled brat. Mickelson has every right to have an opinion on what he likes or dislikes in a golf course or even in a certain golf course architect. But for the sake of golf courses around the globe that host high profile events, how about you keep your mouth shut for once because it's not all about you Mr. Mickelson.

So Week 1 of the NFL season was a good start, but don't start forwarding these weekly projections to your friends claiming to have the next "great lock" of the week. In my best of years, I'll hit 60% of the games correct. So starting off with a 12-3-1 week leaves plenty of room to regress towards the mean.

While most of our time is spent thinking and talking about the game of golf, we can hold our own predicting who will win each and every Sunday in the NFL. So here it goes, with another season of Pigskin Prognostication on The Back Nine.

Ryan Penfield made it back-to-back wire-to-wire Champions of the Metropolitan Amateur. After an opening round 2-under 69 on Thursday at St. Louis CC, Penfield added rounds of 70 and 75 to capture the title with a 1-over 214 total. His name will be added to the Jim Tom Blair Trophy along with other area greats such as Holtgrieve, Bliss and his final round playing partner Skip Berkmeyer.