David Duval News

Given that we're closing in on the end of 2009 and the decade of the 2000s, there have been and will be quite a number of retrospective pieces on the last decade in golf.

After this week's installment, PGA Tour Confidential will take a few weeks off. Check back regularly, however, because we will convene the roundtable as the news requires.

Duffy Waldorf is picking up where he left off last year in the Buick Classic. Duffy Waldorf is picking up where he left off last year in the Buick Classic.

Around this time each year, the PGA Tour opens up its doors to any duffer with the price of admission and some good rounds of golf under his belt.

Jiyai Shin has shot a 6-under 66 for the second-round lead at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.

Calgary's Stephen Ames was munching on sliders and drinking a few beers at his coach's house Saturday night when he realized that he needed all the help he could get to make his final round of the year a special one.

Justin Leonard fired an eight-under 64 in windy conditions to move past Justin Rose and into the lead Friday after two rounds of the Children's Miracle Network Classic.

Twelve years is a long time, to be sure. But it must seem like another life to David Duval , who, at the end of the 1997 season, won three straight PGA Tour events, stamping himself as one of the game's emerging players.

Rich Beem was slightly flummoxed by the term, which has often been ascribed to golf, where there are no guaranteed, multi-year contracts or player unions.

Even in the wake of what turned out to be a big win for Phil Mickelson and a disappointing showing by Tiger Woods, the PGA Tour is already preparing for what will be a overly dramatic weekend at the Children's Miracle Network Classic in Walt Disney this Thursday.

CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK CLASSIC, Walt Disney World Resort , Lake Buena Vista, Florida - Last year, Davis Love III fired a final-round 64 to win by a shot and capture his 20th career victory and first in two years.

Rickie Fowler will be back in the spotlight next week at the Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney World as he seeks to win his PGA Tour card without a trip to Q-School. Fowler has won $553,700 in his two PGA Tour starts as a pro, which would put him 135th on this year's money list.

You do not have to say 'Tiger Woods.' He is one of many stars where only one name is necessary to fully identify them.

The sun was out in Madison, Miss., a seemingly beautiful day for golf. Randy Watkins could only wish it had come out sooner, for longer, and did a better job of drying out a saturated golf course still unfit for play on Monday.

STUART Appleby is to forgo a last-ditch bid to secure his full American tour card so that he can be in Melbourne for next week's Australian Masters at Kingston Heath.

Perched precariously on the bubble at 125th on the PGA TOUR money list entering this week's Viking Classic, former British Open champion David Duval is following his practical inclinations and considering all of his options for the 2010 season.

Janzen has hardly seen the glass half full in recent Octobers, when he's been too low on the PGA Tour money list to earn the right to play the next season.

Rickie Fowler picked a good year to try to get his PGA Tour card without going to Q-School. The former Oklahoma State star tied for seventh in Las Vegas, then lost in a three-way playoff at the Frys.com Open in Arizona, giving him $553,700 in two starts.

Rickie Fowler picked a good year to try to get his PGA Tour card without going to Q-school. The former Oklahoma State star tied for seventh in Las Vegas, then lost in a three-way playoff at the Frys.com Open in Arizona, giving him $553,700 in two starts.

PGA TOUR: Frys.com Open, today-Sunday, Grayhawk Golf Club, Scottsdale, Ariz. TV: Golf Channel .