This week the PGA Tour is playing the AT&T in the Philadelphia area.  Though the AT&T is known as Tiger Wood’s tournament, the only competition Woods may provide this week will be playing against kids on the XBox version of his golf game.  Tiger is still injured and won’t be playing.  In fact the date of his return to the PGA Tour is unknown.  He hasn’t taken a full swing with a golf club since withdrawing from the 2011 PLAYERS Championship.

The Course

This week’s course is a special one.  Aronomink is an old school design by the famous golf designer Donald Ross.  Ross is famous for designing dozens of courses in the east and perhaps most famous for designing Pinehurst #2.

Aronomink is a tree lined course with nice elevation changes, tight fairways and extremely difficult greens.  When brought up to tour speeds, the greens at Aronomink could easily compete with the greens at Augusta National.  It is extremely important for players to be accurate off the tee so that they may place their approaches in the proper area of the greens.  Once on those greens, putting will be at a premium.

Players To Watch

Thursday and Friday at the AT&T there are a few cool groupings.

The first featured group includes Gary Woodland, Nick Watney and Dean Wilson.  Dean Wilson hasn't really done much on tour the last few years but Woodland and Watney certainly have.  The word behind the scenes is that Watney is testing out new irons from his equipment manufacturer.  Keep an eye on his iron game.

A 2nd fun grouping to watch will be that of Justin Rose, K.J. Choi and Adam Scott.  Once again this week Tiger Woods' caddy Steve Williams will be on the bag of fellow Aussie Adam Scott.  The ball striking in this group should be fantastic.

Other single players to watch include Rickie Fowler, multiple 2011 winner Mark Wilson, Jhonny Vegas and new rooking winner Keegan Bradley.