Favourite for every event he enters the Tiger Woods story will be running for quite a few years yet. Fatherhood certainly won’t make him a worse player.

He’s got 12 Majors under his belt already and is in hot pursuit of Jack Nicklaus’s record haul of 18 after finishing first, first, second and second in his last four majors since missing the cut at last year’s US Open, the first event he played after his father Earl’s death.

Simply the best,certainly of his generation, perhaps of all time. Only injuries could stophim breaking every record out there. Going for a treble at Carnoustie aftertriumphs at St Andrews in 2005 and Hoylake in 2006. Has had troubles atCarnoustie, but capable of amazing things.