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.

Bob Harig, ESPN Golf Writer, brought up an interesting point earlier this week pertaining to Tiger Woods' dominance of the PGA Tour. Since Tiger's last finish outside of the top 10 (2007 British Open), only two players, Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk, have finished tied or ahead of Woods more than twice. Mickelson has done so four times, including this year's Masters, U.S. Open and the CA Championship (which Mickelson won). Furyk has done it three times. U.S. Open Champion Lucas Glover has done it twice.

June 13th - Well can we say it? Does Tiger's performance last weekend at The Memorial do enough to move the discussion away from "Is Tiger Back"? He's back and while he isn't the same Tiger he was before the surgery, it's likely in the next 6 to 8 months we'll be talking about how the new Tiger is better than what we came to know and love before his extended absence in 2008. His performance on a difficult golf course at The Memorial was simply amazing. He's now won twice in 2008, made a run at the year's first major championship and is poised to repeat as the U.S. Open Champion if he hits it anything like he did last week.