Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Tiger Woods finally made the announcement this week that the golfing world has been waiting for - 'I'm now ready to play again'.
Music to the ears I'm sure for the nervous backers of the US Tour in these trying times but another timely boost for the sport as we head into Majors season.
It had been rumoured for weeks that the WGC Match Play would be the scene for the comeback tournament. Without the added pressure of a scorecard in the pocket for the match play format it seems the perfect stage for the great man to make his long awaited return.
When Tiger returns to action, I'm sure he will see many new faces around the locker room and on the practice range. There are many new stars appearing on the world golfing scene as I have mentioned over the past few weeks, all of them intent on challenging Tiger for the game's major prizes and his coveted world number one title. McIlroy, Villegas, Kim and Ishikawa are four of these players, but only two days after the announcement of Woods' return, down in Perth, Australia the latest potential golfing superstar was issuing a statement of intent to join the club.
Danny Lee made history by becoming the youngest player to win a European Tour event, the New Zealand amateur taking a one-stroke victory in the Johnnie Walker Classic. The teenager coped admirably to shoot a final round five-under-par 67 at The Vines Resort and Country Club to finish ahead of Ross McGowan, Hiroyuki Fujita and Felipe Aguilar.
At the age of 18 years and 213 days, Lee surpassed the previous Tour record set by Dale Hayes at the 1971 Spanish Open. He also became only the second amateur after 2007 Estoril Open de Portugal champion Pablo Martin to win.
Lee was born in South Korea but moved to New Zealand at the age of eight. He became the youngest winner of the US Amateur Open last August, is ranked the world's number one amateur and will turn professional after the Masters in April.
Through the years, groups of great players have emerged together creating enthralling sporting rivalries which only add to the attraction of the sport; I'm talking of Palmer, Nicklaus and Player; Faldo, Norman and Ballesteros to name but a couple.
I wonder if we could be on the verge of the next great group of potential golfing legends. It could well be a rather large group if the current trend continues as it seems a new name emerges every week.
Tiger is still the grandmaster, and will continue to be the man that everyone else aspires to for some time to come - but the queue is getting longer behind him as the competition for the potential successor to his throne hots up.
I'm sure it will make for compulsive viewing over the coming weeks.
