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Tiger Woods is no longer officially considered one of golf's top 50 players, ending a streak that extended back 15 years.

On Tuesday afternoon I was reading the Sports Business Daily and stumbled upon this interesting set of data regarding the Nielsen Ratings for Sundays at the PGA Championship over the last 15 years. In 7 of the last 15 years, the Sunday Nielsen rating at the PGA Championship exceeded 6.0.

A rally that ranks among the best. A collapse hardly anyone saw coming. There was even a guy in a red shirt Sunday, pumping his fists with each clutch putt in the final, frenzied hour of the PGA Championship....

Only a half-hour remained before his tee time when Rory McIlroy finally arrived Friday morning at Atlanta Athletic Club’s practice range. His right wrist, injured on a root during Thursday’s first round of the PGA Championship, was again heavily wrapped. He warmed up with a few easy wedges, then some full swings with irons, and finally the driver.

Adam Scott won his first World Golf Championship on Sunday with a caddie who has been part of quite a few more.

At Tiger Woods’s comeback tournament, the W.G.C.-Bridgestone Invitational, he gave back a few strokes early as Adam Scott maintains the lead.

Rory McIlroy has not been a pro long enough to have personally experienced Tiger Woods at his absolute best except in very limited doses. So he doesn’t understand any clamoring by players about Woods’ return this week at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational.

Tiger Woods was on the practice range just as the sun began to rise Tuesday over Firestone, his first time on a PGA Tour golf course in nearly three months.

Woods will get back to golf next week at the Bridgestone Invitational, ending a break to heal injuries to his left leg.

Darren Clarke gave Northern Ireland another major championship Sunday. The 42-year-old came into the week as an afterthought, but three straight scores in the 60s and a par 70 in the final round lifted him to a comfortable three-stroke victory over Americans Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson.