I'm pumped about this. Golf going global in a big way!!!

The women need to follow suit if they want to save their game.

The women have gone global, they're just not aware of it yet.

Phil wins!!

Nice win by Phil in the final group over Tiger.
His putting is much improved- 2010 may be great fun.

jjshaka you must not have seen Phil putt last week in Singapore.

OWGR - always ready to diminish any Mickelson accomplishment. What a shocker.

I hope CBS, NBC, and ABC were watching....no mindless chit chat....they showed shot after shot. I saw more golf shots in 20 min last night then I see in 3 hours on NBC

@ tighthead

Simply stating a fact. Sorry that the truth hurts sometimes.

The definition of golf "going global" is Tiger and Phil in the final group ???

Definitely a fun final round, especially with Els and McIllroy going low the way they did. What in the world happened to Ernie's second shot at 18 ? What a huge mishit. Would've been interesting to see how Phil handled the pressure of a tie or even a shot down...especially with the "Phil Special" he put on the ball off the tee at 18.

Prediction - if the gallery behavior doesn't improve next year...plus those "unfair" bunkers that plugged Tiger and Phil's shots...Tiger and Phil won't be back for a third time.

I'm with you JPH - Renton Laidlaw is the best in the business.

Court...golf going global is the worlds two best players going head to head in the final group in China. Hello!!

I'm not hurt, although I am sure that would be to your fancy. Phil's putting last week doesn't diminish his accomplishment this week.

Does that hurt you? I know Phil's successes leave you cold and angry.

Phil kicked Tiger's butt just as thoroughly as YE Yang did at the PGA. Period. Whether his putting was good or bad makes no difference. He won and held off a bunch of first-rate players in doing so. I suppose Tiger said something to the effect that he was just a few putts away from winning himself, that yank-double in the water on the first par-3 notwithstanding. Anyway, MRP's unbridled enthusiasm may be justified in the coming year (but why does his favorite book have to be Atlas Shrugged? Yeah, I clicked on the link).

No love for Atlas Shurgged?

C'mon, what's better than a book that is a million pages long talking about business vs. politics.

By the way, Who's John Galt?

Unfair bunkers??? what exactly does that mean? When your ball plugs in the face of the hell bunker up against the face is that unfair?? Golf was never meant to be fair laddy.

Anytime someone says "unfair bunker" the Scots have a great hardy belly laugh.

MRP - what difference does it make that Tiger and Phil are playing together in the final in China ? Does this make China a better place to play golf ? Does it make China a better place for professional golf than any other place in the world ? It's not the place everybody is excited about - it's the pairing. "Going Global" didn't seem to be the rallying cry the week before in Singapore when Phil couldn't make a putt...or any of the last years when Tiger went to Asia to play...or Phil.

It was a great tournament - and I hope that more than the proletariat, and the chosen few for the golf machine that will be cranking up, get to play the game there. But please - this "going global" marketing is nonsense. Golf has been played in Asia for a very long time. Don't forget that there was a debate that the game was actually invented in Asia. I hope a lot of people get to play the game - but this is marketing.

HA ! Well said, Tay !

Court....why do you seem so angry? I don't get it.

Golf has been played in China for a long time, you are correct. But per your own comments, " I hope that more than the proletariat, and the chosen few for the golf machine that will be cranking up, get to play the game there"...I think it is clear that the playing of the game is not widespread.

But, maybe, with the world's top two being in the final group on Sunday playing in front of a fairly good amount of spectators...perhaps that might pique more people's interest in the game and golf might be provided to the people in China in addition to the elites.

Just a thought, maybe a hope, as I was thinking that if one other person might be exposed to this game that has brought me so much joy then the world would be a better place and another person would be that much more happy.

But if you want to shout me down and tell me why I am an idiot, that is fine.

Later..God Bless!