The scene was the crowded media center at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens on Sunday because the Honda Classic was finding yourself. On two large TV screens in each corner of the room, Rory McIlroy was seen continue to exist the crowning final hole that would lift him initially, at 22, to No.?One out of the globe golf rankings.

Why were so many media members in that room rather than ringing the 18th green? Because in the forefront, on a riser between your TV screens, inside a wingback leather chair fit for taylormade burner superfast 2.0 fairway wood royalty, sat Tiger Woods ?a the morning triumphant for him, too.

Golf has spent the past few years in flux, kind of looking forward to the declining elderly embodied by Woods and Phil Mickelson to rally or cool as well as waiting over a next wave of stars to give itself.

Woods, after couple of years lost to his infidelity scandal and then to injuries and tinkering with his game, declared Sunday he's about ready to win his first PGA Tour event since 2009 and maybe resume quest for the career majors record that sees Jack Nicklaus still four ahead.

At the very least, Woods' performance, including two final-round eagles, surely got the interest of anyone inclined to write him off and think his best days, at age 36, were irretrievable.

It turned out only a couple of weeks earlier, at Pebble Beach, that Mickelson, 41, made their own declaration Titleist scotty cameron california monterey putter using a redeeming, I'm-not-done-yet victory.

McIlroy is the young man being chased ?a after last year's stunning eight-shot victory in the U.S. Open and after this his No.?1 rank ?a though the objects in their rearview mirror might be closer compared to what they appear.

Six other players within their 20s join McIlroy in the current world top-10, though the list includes Luke Donald, No.?2 at age 34; Lee Westwood, No.?3 at 38; and Steve Stricker, No.?5 at 45.

The sector immediately is restricted to merely 74 to the season's second of 4 WGC events, such as the top-50 ranked men on the globe. Refer to it as a major tuneup for that season's first of four majors, the Masters, which is April 5-8.

It will be hard for this week to top last week's McIlroy ascension to No.?One in Palm Beach Gardens industry discount golf clubs by storm Tiger's dramatic charge, but clearly the WGC at Doral still bests Honda as South Florida's premier pro golf event.

Credit Doral for that, as well as famed Blue Monster course.

Credit the almost unbeatable tradition with this same pasture of manicured land hosting a PGA Tour event uninterrupted since 1962. Carry out the math. That creates this the 51st annual pro tournament for Doral as host, get the job done WGC format 's been around here only since 2007.

Most of Florida has swirled turbulently and dizzyingly and changed around it, though the Blue Monster has become an oasis of tranquility and stability.

I said almost unbeatable tradition because, of 48 current tournaments about the tour schedule, only two other golf courses have served longer as being a continuous host predating Doral's 1962: Augusta National has hosted the Masters yearly since 1934 (except 1943-45 because of World War II), and Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, has been a tour host since 1946.