In golf, there are those who start fast but can't sustain, and those who close strong even after starting slow. Guess who tends to win more?

Yani Tseng of Taiwan holed seven birdies over the final 12 holes at the Women's Australian Open in Melbourne to notch a three-stroke win over defending champion Laura Davies. Not bad for someone who started the day four strokes behind then-leader Karrie Webb, yes?

Tseng had begun the tournament with rounds of 74, 71 and 72, but came up huge when it counted, finishing with a bogey-free 66.

It was a nine-stroke swing for Webb, who finished five strokes back after carding a final-round 74. Quite the comedown from last week, when she took the Australian Ladies Masters with a final-round 61, but when you miss three birdie putts from inside four feet -- as Webb did on the back nine -- well, you can't really hope to win, can you?

The women's game may be struggling to gain eyeballs, but not for lack of talent. Tseng's late-round hammer-drop is proof

A good Monday to you, friends! Wake up and put off work for a couple minutes with this look back at the best shots of the weekend, and we can all dream of a day when we can shoot this well.

Shot of the CA Championship was Doral was this looooong putt by Ernie Els in an attempt to save par. Miss it, and he's even with Charl Schwartzel with just four holes remaining. He set up, swung, and:

That was the putt that put Schwartzel out of the hunt for good. But it wasn't alone among the best shots of the weekend.

Check this prettiness from Jeff Maggert in the third round of the Puerto Rico Open, an eagle on the par-5 second:

And hey -- we beat up on John Daly, and he quite often deserves it, so let's give him love when he deserves it too. Nice eagle here on No. 2 in Puerto Rico:

And finally, dig this beauty from Robert Allenby on the par-3 13th in the second round of the CA Championship:

So much like my own weekend, it's scary.

This week is the first of it. PGA Tour players preparing for the opening major of the year, and Doral is the host of an event suited for Augusta. While rumors swirled about one famous golfer, others competed and some made our weekly list of rips and shanks.

Rips

Ernie Els: Well hello, Big Easy. Ernie has the game that most people appreciate; simple, smooth and sexy. Its been since 2008 that Els raised a trophy, but his four rounds at Doral proved that even though he isn't a name that comes up often, he can still dominate, and given the week, can still win marquee events. Don't sleep on Ernie at Augusta.

Charl Schwartzel: Paired with his childhood idol in the final round of a WGC event, the 25-year-old South African put together a 2-under 70, placing him second in the CA Championship field and proving that names like McIlroy, Fowler and Ishikawa might be well know, but Schwartzel is just as good, with some professional wins to boot.

Matt Kuchar: He's having one of the sneakiest season

No matter the athlete, they all have idols. Tiger Woods looked up to Jack Nicklaus. Dwight Howard is a product of Shaq. Charl Schwartzel, the 25-year-old South African, is going to be paired on Sunday with the man he looked up to, in the final round of an elite PGA Tour event.

Alas, the power of golf. No other sport allows generations to compete, but Schwartzel is tied at 12-under with Ernie Els at the Blue Monster, and will get the chance to defeat his fellow countryman on a global stage, in one of the biggest events of the year.

How did Schwartzel get here? Well, he's won five times on the European Tour, helping boost his world ranking to a sneaky good 35. On Saturday at the CA Championship, Schwartzel went around Doral in 67 shots, never sniffing a bogey and finding himself a shot off of the low round of moving day.

He's never won on the PGA Tour, but that shouldn't be what rattles him, if anything, on Sunday. He has six worldwide wins, including two already this season.

What

Few golfers on either side of the gender line are as devoted to spreading the gospel of the game as Anna Rawson. She spent a few minutes chatting with Devil Ball about her current plans, her hopes for the LPGA, and why silence is in no way golden ...

Okay, so let's talk about why you're here. You're involved in a new tournament, and you need our help.

Yes! It's a new tournament called Mojo6, and it's got a unique format - 16 players against each other in match play over six holes. It's going to be a lot of fun for the fans, and it's going to be a totally different experience. I'm excited to be one of the 12 players being voted in for the last spot. Fifteen have already been chosen, and I'm hoping to be the 16^th. So I need your help and I need your vote! You can go to annarawson.com or themojo6.com and enter your email to vote for me.

You've had a number of rather forward-thinking ideas for ways to kick-start the women's game. How have those ideas been met?

The fans love them. The

On Friday at Doral, defending champion Phil Mickelson set out on day two of his quest to complicate the game of golf.

You see, the USGA allows tournament play to be done with 14 clubs in the bag, no more, and Lefty seems to have spent most of this decade making that decision as complicated as possible. This week, Phil has elected to carry two drivers, like he did in 2006 when he won his second Masters, and while most of the talk heading into this season was focused on what Phil would do with his golf clubs, 2010 has been all about what Phil has as his golf clubs.

It's clouded the guy's head, and his game has suffered.

Here is a plea to Phil; stop worrying about the clubs, the conditions, the wind and the loft, and just go out and use your talent. Remember when you won three NCAA individual champions, a U.S. Amateur and a PGA Tour as an amateur in the early 90s? That was done with skill, not specs. You beat everyone's brains out because you are as talented as anyone not battling family

Ian Poulter and a crew of like-minded fans bring a little more color -- to be generous about it -- to Friday's round of the WGC-CA at Doral. Meanwhile, Geoff Ogilvy looks like he's about to hide his face to avoid being seen. Getcha some new pants, Geoff, and join the party! Surely your grandmother has some drapes in her house that she doesn't need any more!

This is how the Tiger Woods saga ends, friends; not with a bang (heh, heh) but with the squeak of inflated plastic. The Tiger Woods inflatable "love doll" is now available from Pipedream Products. (Link goes to our pals at Sportress of Blogitude; link is borderline NSFW if your work isn't crazy about golf innuendo.)

Anyway, I think we've hit rock bottom with this one. What else is there? Though I will say this -- the first person to sneak one of these things into a tournament and inflate it while Tiger's on a green somewhere is going to be a legend. A missing-and-presumed-dead legend after Tiger Woods Inc. and the PGA Tour get through with him, but still.

Any time you're ready to announce your comeback and get people thinking about golf is fine with us, Tiger.