February 13, 2010 - The Back Nine Radio Show - It's nice to be home after nearly two weeks in Miami at Super Bowl XLIV. That being said, it's hard to come home to snow on the ground after two weeks in 75 degree temperatures and South Beach out your front door.

The golf world as we know it has changed. The man who once stood alone at the top of the golf universe is now bunkered down in his Isleworth mansion dealing with the crisis that is his life.

PGA TOUR officials canceled the weather-stricken Viking Classic on Saturday because of unplayable course conditions. There will be no makeup date and players will move on to the final event of the season, the Children's Miracle Network Classic on Nov. 12-15 in Orlando, Fla.

As an amateur golfer in the St. Louis area, I'll admit we have it good. The amateur golf associations of the Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association and Missouri Golf Association are so well organized and well run we, as amateur golfers, have the privilege of competing on the area's elite private clubs and public golf courses each summer.

You may have heard someone passionate about the game of golf say it's a game of a lifetime and if you doubted those very words, just look at Tom Watson this week at the age of 59. Thru 54 holes at the Open Championship at Turnberry, five time British Open Champion Tom Watson is reminding us all again that golf is truly a game of a lifetime.