Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: That there is at last a young and talented player who can offer a consistent challenge to the PGA Tour’s reigning King.

According to ESPN’s Jason Sobel, the newest pretender to the throne is none other than Adam Scott.

You had to see this one coming. Scott has just come off a convincing victory at the Tour Championship (albeit one sans Woods and Mickelson), and now has four (or five, depending on how you count them) victories at the tender age of 26. He’s currently ranked fourth in the world rankings.

And that’s enough for the hype to begin.

I think that it shows the hunger golf fans have for someone—anyone—to offer a challenge to Tiger. Heck, most of us would just be happy if the field wouldn’t embarass itself by folding at the most critical moments.

Not that Scott is a bad choice. If you read Sobel’s article, you’ll see that he’s got a lot going for him:

Of course, it’s utterly ironic that we’re considering Scott for this portrayal as Tiger’s rival following his victory over a Tour Championship field that didn’t include Woods. But the way the 26-year-old disposed of his elite competition at East Lake this week—convincingly, connivingly stretching his lead to three before Sunday’s final round, then winning by that same margin—read like a page torn from Tiger’s private diary, “Why I Always Win.”

It is hardly a coincidence that Scott so strongly resembles Woods. He’s patterned much of his career after the man he’s chasing. Earned his country’s amateur title as a junior player, just like Tiger. Got some brief collegiate experience, just like Tiger. Captured his initial professional victory at age 20, just like Tiger.

The precocious young Aussie is everything Tiger was at 26—talented and athletic, sleek and strong, composed and humble. Everything, that is, except a major champion, but trust us—that’s coming.

I have to say that I would like to see it. I like Scott as a player—and from the interviews I’ve seen him do, he strikes me as a personable guy.

But as I said, I’ve heard this story before. And I’m not ready to buy into it.

LYNX Fat Cat Wedge

The Fat Cat is a uniquely designed wedge with a hollow body that allows for an extremely deep and low center of gravity. That’ll help you to do what you’re supposed to do with wedges, which is to get the ball up in the air. It’s designed with rounded edges on the sole and the back of the clubhead to allow the clubhead to flow without restriction through grass and sand.

If you have problems with wedge play may be the club for you.

I’ve just set up a few feature on GolfBlogger: The Golf Blog Search Engine.

It works just like a regular search Engine—in fact, it runs on Google—but it searches only the forty golf blogs that I have elected to include in the system. When you type a term into the search box, it queries Google and returns only those results that appear on the selected sites. And no, there is no built-in bias toward Golf Blogger.

I’ve begun with forty sites that I had listed in my browser bookmarks: 19th Hole Comedy; Armchair Golf Blog; Bad Golf; Blog.golfiq; Business Golf; Even Par Round; Going Pro Golf Blog; Golf Babes; Golf For Beginners; Golf.MostvaluableNetwork; Golf Chick; Golf Muse; Golf Duffer; Grouchy Golf; One Day Shot; Jam Boy; Jay Flemma; No Three Putts; Primary Rough; Sorta Golf; Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics; The Golf Bandit; Beginning Golfing; Bogey Lounge; Deep Rough; Eat Golf; Engolfed; Going For The Green; Golf Blogger (of course); Golf Punk ONline; Golf Times, Hooked On Golf Blog; Online Golf News, Ontario Golf; Shot Talk; Sir Shanks A Lot; Texas Golf, The Forward Tees, The Golf Drill Guru, Illogical Golf Blog; The Sand Trap and Wieblog.

Dont’ get offended if your site—or your favorite site isn’t there. I didn’t exclude anyone purposely (actually, I did exclude a few blogs that haven’t been active for a while, or that are simply an extension of someone’s retail site.). If you want to suggest a blog for inclusion, send me a ntoe via the Contact form.

In the meantime, give it a try and let me know how it works. Like much on this site, it’s a work in progress.

Lucky Cheeseheads. Wisconsin residents can now get “Golf Wisconsin” license plates. The money raised will support junior golf programs.

Command Q4 Fairway Woods

Designed to complement the Command Q4 Driver, the Q4 Fairway Woods feature a low profile design with added weights in the rear of the club. These weights are positioned to help improve trajectory while still maintaining distance.

With a classic look and feel, these clubs offer many of the features and benefits of the TaylorMade R5 Fairway Woods at a fraction of the price.

As with all Pinemeadow clubs, they come with a 30 day playability guarantee.

Its not directly related to golf, but I found what could turn out to be a very useful website: Retail Me Not. It’s a catalog/search engine for online coupons. Its “collaborative” in that it encouages people to enter coupons that they have encountered. I found a 15% off coupon for Dick’s Sporting Goods.

IZZO No Bogey Putting Cup

Here in Michigan, the greens are the first thing to shut down as the weather turns bad. No greenskeeper wants to take a chance on injuring the grass. My home course remains open year round, but the temporary greens go in place in November. So while I can continue to work my swing, my putting suffers.

Fortunately, there are lots of indoor putting solutions.

The Izzo No Bogey Putting Cup is made of soft rubber and has a lip that’s supposed to simulate more accurately a real cup. It’s supposed to get you to hit the ball square to the hole. The interior of the cup has specially designed “teeth” that hold the ball in.