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Each Wednesday during the golf season, FanHouse will list the top five names in golf and why they're important. Did Barack play 18 with Tiger? Did a certain player do something controversial off the course? Or was just playing golf enough to get the pot stirring? Join us for a new weekly ranking feature we call Making the Cut.

5. The Mickelsons -- A week after learning that Amy Mickelson was diagnosed with breast cancer, the golf world has jumped directly behind Phil Mickelson and his family during this tough time. John Daly wore pink pants in honor of Amy. A flurry of support from fellow tour players including Twitter posts has shown that no matter what you think of Phil, everyone understands and respects the man as one of the better family men on tour. He will be missed on the golf course, but he is where he should be right now, and for that he is quickly earning tons of respect from places that it may have been lost over the last few years.

VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) -- Paul Casey of England joined some elite company Sunday with birdies on his last two holes for a one-shot victory in the BMW PGA Championship, his third win this year moving him up to No. 3 in the world rankings.

Casey closed with a 4-under 68 to hold off a strong charge by Ross Fisher, who had a tournament-best 64.

After realizing he was trailing when he first saw a leaderboard, Casey responded with a 15-foot birdie on the 15th, an 8-foot birdie on the 17th to tie Fisher for the lead, then a 4-foot birdie on the par-5 18th after hitting into a greenside bunker with his second.

Before Phil Mickelson broke through at the 2004 Masters, Lefty held the ultimate "kissing your sister" title. Phil was the "best player to never have won a major championship." Sure, Phil had made waves in majors, nearly taking the title at the 1999 U.S. Open and the 2001 PGA Championship, but he couldn't break through. Once the infamous birdie leap occurred at Augusta National in '04, Mickelson passed that title off to someone. The thing is, nobody has really grabbed it as feverishly as Phil did. He was the major-less face. Now, according to Forbes, it isn't Sergio Garcia.

Every Monday during the PGA Tour season, Monday Pin Placement will run as a wrap-up of the weekend's action. Basically, we'll focus on what you missed while you were out grinding on the putting green.

Houston, We Have Weather Problems -- Professional golfers have two ways of preparing for major championships. You can go the Tiger Woods route of taking the week off prior to the major and spend that time practicing, resting and getting yourself mentally prepared for such a grueling week, or you can take Phil Mickelson's advice and play the week before to keep yourself in shape.

There was exactly one person that was glad they signed up for the Shell Houston Open this week after winds pounded players for four straight days, and it was the man holding the trophy late Sunday evening.

Paul Casey won his first PGA Tour title on Sunday after a marathon three days of golf after play was suspended on Thursday due to high winds. Casey's win came in a playoff against J.B. Holmes, who posted a 3-under 69 in the final round and sat in the clubhouse for more than two hours and 40 minutes waiting for Casey and Fred Couples to finish their rounds.

Holmes' tee shot on the first playoff hole found the water and Casey needed just a bogey for the title a week before the Masters. It was his 10th career win worldwide but first on American soil.

Tiger Woods heads into the final round of the WGC-CA Championship nine shots off the lead. Such news wouldn't merit a mention if we were talking about Ian Poulter or Paul Casey or Ernie Els, all top-flight players who will each face a nine-stroke deficit when they make their way to the tee box Sunday.

But this is Eldrick, where no news is still newsworthy, which is why we're up to date on every Tiger-related development, no matter how inconsequential. And it's that fact that has a lot to do with this one: some people are burned out on Woods.

Every Monday during the PGA Tour season, Monday Pin Placement will run as a wrap-up of the weekend's action. Basically, we'll focus on what you may have missed while you were out grinding on the putting green.

Ogilvy Takes Accenture Handily -- Well, that looked easy.

Geoff Ogilvy dominated the 36-hole final on Sunday against Paul Casey, winning the match 4-and-3, and taking his second Accenture Match Play title in four years. Also in the last four years, Ogilvy has made it to the finals three times, which might just make him the new king of match play over a gentleman named Tiger Woods.

It was supposed to be the tournament Tiger Woods came back in, but it quickly became the tournament in which Geoff Ogilvy staked his claim as best golfer in the world.

The Australian, who won the Mercedes Championship earlier this season, triumphed over Paul Casey in the finals of the Accenture Match Play Championship, 4-and-3, to quietly become the best golfer in the game that nobody is talking about.

It might not have been Tiger Woods against Phil Mickelson. Heck, it isn't even Ernie Els playing Vijay Singh, but the two professional golfers playing the best right now will face up against each other Sunday exactly 125 miles away from their home course.

Australian Geoff Ogilvy, who won this tournament in 2006 and was runner-up in '07, will take on Englishman Paul Casey in a 36 hole final to see who can claim title of Best Golfer During Tiger Week.

Every Monday during the PGA Tour season, Monday Pin Placement will run as a wrap-up of the weekend's action. Basically, we'll focus on what you may have missed while you were out grinding on the putting green.

Mickelson Wins, Tiger's Back In -- To all but the most die-hard of golf fans who are above hero worship and basic story-lines, there are two golfers that are sure to grab your attention every time they set foot on the course: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson (seen here in June of 2008).