Yahoo! Sports US PGA golf expert believes that Brandt Snedeker is golf's best player at the moment and deserves to be talked about in the same sentence as Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy?

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Tiger … Rory … Sneds?

While that sentence sounds like Entry A in the "One of These Things Is Not Like the Other" contest, we may need to start re-evaluating our estimation of one Brandt Snedeker, age 32, hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. No, Snedeker hasn't won a Major championship. But what he has done is seal the deal as hottest player on Earth since last August, and that's not even a question.

On Sunday,

If it makes you feel better, go ahead and say it: Tiger's back.

The Tiger Woods Train (Motto: "It's a process.") rolls on, and on Monday finished up its Torrey Pines stop with an almost thoroughly dominating win in the Farmers Insurance Open.

This was one strange tournament, with almost all of Saturday lost to fog and Sunday a jumbled mess of simultaneous third- and fourth-round play. Tournament organizers and CBS started the tournament several hours later on Monday with the intention of giving the country some good Woods afternoon golf, but many CBS affiliates around the country opted for

Rory McIlroy failed to make the cut at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship. (AP)

The news came on Friday that the top two ranked players in the world, the two new Nike bromance boys, the rivalry we all think will be the Nicklaus-Watson of the Instagram Era started off as a big, old, stinky flop in 2013.

Both players missed the cut, marking the first time since last summer's US Open at Olympic Club in San Francisco that the world's top two players did that, when Luke Donald and Rory McIlroy both missed the cut. But that's a US Open, and it's meant to destroy souls and turn leaderboards upside down.

This is Abu Dhabi, at a place where McIlroy finished second, second and

Most golfers spend a lifetime learning to be steady over a putt, but Owen Kopinski appears to have mastered it – at the age of 21 months.

And the American toddler, who hails from Illinois, is clearly also more than capable with an iron, and has had his skills showcased in a video.

In the golfing world, if you’re destined for the very top, you have to start early.

Golf’s two major superstars at present, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, both made television appearances as youngsters, showing the talent which marked them out for greatness.

As for 'Toddler Woods', if he continues in this vein he has

World number one golfer Rory McIlroy has put pen to paper on a sponsorship deal with Nike which is set to make him better paid than Tiger Woods.

Although commercial terms were not disclosed, media reports say the agreement with the Northern Irishman unveiled on Monday is worth as much as $250 million over 10 years, one of the most lucrative in global sports as Nike moves on after dropping disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong last year.

McIlroy, 23, was previously sponsored by golf brand Titleist and other golfers have struggled to replicate their earlier success after switching to a new

Russell Henley shot a final-round 63 to win the Sony Open. (AP)

How strong was 23-year-old Russell Henley's win in his first US Tour start as a member?

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson must feel ancient about now, fumbling for their bifocals to read the small print on menus; feeling every muscle strain when they rise in the morning; searching the medicine cabinet for antacids after another bout with acid reflux.

After all, they're old. Tiger is 37, Phil is 42, and kids who don't even know that MTV once played music videos are threatening scoring records on Tour.

Everybody knows Rory McIlroy carries the banner for the under-25 crowd, but he may want to text

Annika Sorenstam, pictured with digits intact (Reuters)

There are few golfers on this planet that had a career like Annika Sorenstam. The 42-year-old is third all-time on the LPGA win list with 72, third all-time in Majors (10) and the only player in LPGA history to shoot 59 in a round.

Sorenstam retired from professional golf in 2008 but that doesn't mean she still isn't a big part of the game. She appears frequently on the Golf Channel's "Morning Drive" show and ... alright, I tried. I tried to make this article normal and natural but I just ... I can't.

On Tuesday, Sorenstam tweeted a picture of an accident she had while slicing chicken for a

Dustin Johnson is awarded the Hyundai Tournament of Champions Cup (AFP)

Dustin Johnson left a big impression with his victory in the US PGA season opener in Hawaii.

After days and days of wind-blown golf balls, of tailored slacks snapping in the Hawaiian trade winds, of false start after false start, the 2013 golf season is underway, and already we have our slogan for this year.

The US PGA Tour: These Guys Finish On Tuesday!

What an odd beginning, this delayed, shortened, 54-hole Tournament of Champions at Kapalua. There was no Rory, no Tiger, no Phil; no Ernie, no Luke; no Justin. There was also no Friday, no Saturday and no Sunday, owing to weather. There was a