The long cold winter … is over!  After a few weeks of rest the PGA Tour season kicks off Thursday in Hawaii.  This year, it’s a cold start to the new campaign.  The inaugural 2010 event is for 2009 winners only.  However, the biggest names won’t be there.  Phil Michelson is not showing up, and many of the sports superstars didn’t win last year.  Of course the games biggest draw is still recovering from a bad drive.

Canada’s Mike Weir didn’t qualify for the SBS Championship on the Plantation Course at Kapalua.  But he could have.  Weir finished 2^nd to Dustin Johnson at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, where the final round was cancelled due to weather, eliminating his shot at a spot in the season opening event.  The good news is this years US Open is at Pebble, go Mike go.

Canada’s Stephen Ames won the final regular event of the 2009 season, the Children’s Miracle Network Classic, and will carry Canada’s hopes in Hawaii.

Let’s face it, all anyone is really talking about in golf circles is you know who.  In the past decade he elevated the sports popularity – as both a game to play, and a game to watch – to levels never believed possible twenty years ago.  The Athlete of the Decade will come back and chances are that the roars will be stronger than ever.

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