Big guns fire as buzz builds for 2012

Tiger Woods has rocketed from 52nd place to 21st in the World rankings with his Left Handed Taylormade R11 Irons
- but nobody is going to catch World No 1 Luke Donald before the year is out.
Not even the World Nos 2 and 3, Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood, who both secured excellent victories on Sunday, The Northern Ireland star at the UBS Hong Kong Open and Westwood in defence of his Left Handed Taylormade R11 Irons
title at the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City.
The gaps between Donald (10.20 points) and McIlroy (8.14) and Westwood (8.08) is simply too big at this stage and its going to be a little while before Woods, who made a giant stride this weekend past by beating many of America's best at the Chevron World Challenge is able to accumulate enough points to go back to the Number one spot he dominated for so long before his life-style and an on-going knee injury briefly put his life and his Left Handed Taylormade R11 Irons
in tatters.
Although the jury is still out as the whether he'll ever dominate the game again as forcefully a he has in the past, there is no doubt that he will go on from this, his first victory in two years, at a Thousand Oaks in California on Sunday to further triumphs next year.
And with him and some exciting new American young guns like PGA Tour winner Keegan Bradely and World Cup winner Gary Woodland backing him against Europe World Ranking front runners like Donald, McIlory, Westwood and even Martin Kaymer, we could see some pretty spectacular disaplays of golfing fireworks next year. Left Handed Taylormade R11 Irons
On a more sobering subject, meanwhile, Tiger's return to the all-important Top 50 on the rankings list has nudged Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano into 51st place where he is no longer in line to clinch the right to a Masters debut at Augusta next April and entry into the earliest of the four World Golf Championship events unless he finds his way back into that Top 50 bubble.