I used to like watching Tiger Woods win golf tournaments. I wanted him to recover from the events of recent years. I wanted to see him win again. My enthusiasm is starting to wane. I’m getting bored of it all.

Every morning I begin my day with a click through my emails, then I visit the BBC News website followed by BBC Sport with the ultimate destination of the Golf section. It’s a routine. When it comes to the sport and golf sections, I know what I’m going to read about, it’s the same headlines I checked before I went to bed. This morning I was surprised. Then I wasn’t. Finally, I was annoyed enough to write this blog.

Yesterday, I watched Europe win the Solheim Cup in dramatic fashion. Last night I watched Bill Haas win $11.4m in a dramatic playoff that saw him flop the ball to 2 feet from the water. Look at the BBC Golf homepage below.

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I love to gamble. It’s pretty straightforward; if you offer me a bet I bet you I’ll take it. With golf being my sport of choice, whether that’s playing on the pristine (not so much) fairways of Buckinghamshire, or planted well and truly into my imprint in the sofa enjoying Sky HD’s finest with a Budweiser, I love to get some money involved. Skybet have coined the phrase ‘it matters more when there’s money on it’ and I couldn’t put a more apt phrase into words on betting.

The PGA Championship week is an important week in golf and to quote Andrew Cotter, ‘the last shot at glory in the golfing calendar’. Being the last major of the year I felt it was only fair that I placed a sizeable wager on the event. Rickie Fowler was my first pick. Why wouldn’t he be? He came a close second the preceding week to a resurgent Adam Scott and at 25/1 he was a steal. I eagerly sipped at my bud whilst watching Rickie hit his 1st tee shot of the week, but slowly lowered my ice cold beer from my now gaping mouth as it went straight into the bunker resulting in a first hole bogey. Rickie would go on to shoot +4, thanks mate. Never to mind, at least I had backed Tiger Woods when he was -3 after his first 4 holes. ‘He’s back!’, I exclaimed to anyone who hadn’t already grown bored of my incessant announcements throughout the afternoon in the office. 21/1? A £10 stake is guaranteed to fill up the coffers with a healthy return then. I left the office and by the time I’d walked in Tiger had finished on +7 – never wanted that tenner anyway. More...

I like to keep on top of the latest news in the golfing world. My first port of call in the morning when I sit bleary eyed at my desk has always been the BBC Golf website, and as any other regular visitor to this corner of the BBC website will know, it isn’t always packed with new content. This isn’t a complaint about the quality of journalism at the Beeb, more a reflection on the fact that unless someone has won a tournament or Tiger has left the house without shaving there isn’t a great deal to comment on.

Times, however, are a changing – in a week that has been defined by the passing of one of the greatest entertainers the sporting world has ever seen, somehow other news stories have emerged and conspiracy theories are rife. Westwood and McIlroy are disrespecting the PGA Tour, Tiger is faking injury and we’re also in the middle of golf’s 5th Major (or 8th depending on who you listen to).

I’d like to see all the best golfers on top of their form competing against each other every week as much as the next golf enthusiast, but I’m pretty sure I’ll cope if Westwood et al aren’t there. Besides, even if they were playing and you watched the coverage provided by the golf channel, you would probably be none the wiser. Do the US pundits want to cover Europeans doing well on the PGA Tour? No. Then why throw your toys out the pram when Europe’s elite don’t come and play? Then again who cares if they do? The world number one certainly doesn’t.  WestwoodLee - @McIlroyRory did you see the field for the Volvo WORLD matchplay Rors? Notice anything? (Referring to the lack of US presence). And neither does Rory. McIlroyRory - Last time I checked, pro golfers are self employed and can decide when and when not they play. Correct me if I'm wrong.... #justsaying

If you watch the news at all, you’ll know that most of what goes on in our world these days, from national protests to super-injunctions, is because of Twitter. I personally don’t buy into the fuss that sees journalists quoting broken English tweets left right and centre as catalysts of world change. However I do admit I enjoy the speed with which news can be broken in the 140 characters punched into your favourite tweeters twitter app. Graeme_McDowell - Just saw Tiger come limping by me in the locker room. Considering he's supposed to be on the course I'm guessing that's not a good sign.....
Let’s keep politics out of golf and go back to enjoying the game. Here’s to sarcasm on twitter, the European golfing revolution and to Seve, the man who started it all and epitomized everything good about golf with a smile on his face.

This week has been a very exciting week for Golfbreaks.com, particularly in the Marketing department. We found out that Hitwise added a blog discussing the effect the Ryder Cup had on travel companies, and we were one of the top specialist golf holiday companies to benefit!

This is very exciting as we are now competing with the likes of travel giant Thomas Cook for enquiries... we are playing with the big boys of sports travel now.  More...

13 - 10, in Europe's favour

After a jubilant Sunday and high spirits for the unprecedented extra day for the singles, we were all in high spirits, ready to watch a flood of points for the European side. We weren't expecting to see the Americans pull this many matches back in their favour though.

As every hole dropped, the office was in a frenzy of mathematical calculations. Working out what needed to happen for Monty's men to have the chance to raise the eponymous trophy in the Welsh valley. More...