What's mainly notable about this week's PGA Tour stop, the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas, is that it might be the last PGA tournament before Tiger Woods returns.
Woods, recovering from knee surgery, targeted next week's Memorial as his return from the April 15 procedure so he could get his game in shape before the U.S. Open. The deadline to enter the Memorial is Friday, so we'll know soon enough.
As far as the week, world No. 2 Phil Mickelson leads the field at Colonial, the first time he has played this event since 2005.
Mickelson (the +325 betting favorite on WagerWeb.com) won here in 2000 and finished runner-up the following year. He has only missed the cut here once in 11 starts.
The defending champion is Rory Sabbatini (+1100), but it seems unwise to bet on him repeating this week. He finished third at the Buick Invitational early in the season on the California Swing but contracted the flu the following week and hasn't been the same since, including missing two cuts in his last five events.
"By the time I got to the end of the West Coast Swing at the end of the Match Play, I was having a hard time walking 18 holes," said Sabbatini, whose best finish since was a tie for 27th at The Players two weeks ago. "That kind of wiped me out and took away a lot of my energy and focus. Maybe some things just crept into my game that weren't there to start with, and I've just kind of tried to work those bugs back out of the system.
"We're close, we're getting there. It feels like the ballstriking is there, feel like I'm hitting it well. We've just got to get everything clicking together."
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