I think it is right that John Daly was handed a six-month ban by the PGA Tour but you have to have sympathy with the American golfer who obviously did not want a camera thrust in his face during a bad hole for him in Australia.
The pressure can leave your reactions open to question and his messy personal life has not helped The Wild Thing. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Fincham obviously feels a six-month cooling off period is in order.
The 2009 PGA Tour season gets underway this week in Hawaii [Mercedes-Benz Championship], and there are no GB & Ireland golfers in the field but it will be action-packed nonetheless. Vijay Singh is back to his best and the young brigade will be tapping at the Fijian's heels.
Colombian Camilo Villegas is a new face who did well last season and it will be interesting to see if Anthony Kim can keep his meteoric rise going.
I am not sure if Tiger Woods will win on his return to competition play [probably at The Masters] but it will be fascinating to see if the gap has been closed. Padraig Harrington has collected two Majors in his absence, but the American golfers did not appear to prosper. Only time will tell.
Another team event looms this week with the Royal Cup pitting Asia against Europe and I like this concept but the Ryder Cup still remains the biggest one out there. Fitting these team events into the calendar remains the most difficult problem.
I would like to see more match-play events but stroke-play dominates in golf. The main reason for this is the need to satisfy the sponsors and watching audience with a shock exit for the likes of Tiger Woods, in the early rounds of a tournament, unthinkable.
The classic match-play duel is still a great spectacle for me with man against man or girl against girl and sees golf in its most combative form.