The World According to Golf, Nissan Open and Accenture News, and the New FGA Sweetheart!

Datsun 280Z - Official Datsun of the Nissan Open

Tiger has elected to skip the Nissan Open, but he will be lonely in doing so as the tournament has eight of the world's top ten golfers in the field. Set your TiVOs to the golf channel. Mickelson will join world number two Furyk, third-ranked Adam Scott, Ernie Els (four), Retief Goosen (five), Vijay Singh (seven), Luke Donald (eight) and Padraig Harrington (nine) at Riviera for the Feb. 15-18 event.

Here find a projected bracket for the Accenture Match Play Championship. Note that Aaron Oberholser's bad back is shaking everything up. Best to move Aaron from "Who?" to "Don't Draft!" in your golf consciousness.

If you don't want to click, here you go:

(1) Tiger Woods v (64) Brett Quigley or JJ Henry; (32) Tim Clark v (33) Robert Allenby; (16) Nick O'Hern v (49) Lucas Glover or Ben Crane; (17) David Howell v (48) Rory Sabbatini or Lucas Glover; (8) Luke Donald v (57) Miguel Angel Jimenez or John Rollins; (25) Shingo Katayama v (40) Aaron Baddeley; (9) Henrik Stenson v (56) Zach Johnson or Miguel Angel Jimenez; (24) KJ Choi v (41) Carl Pettersson

(4) Phil Mickelson v (61) Bradley Dredge or Richard Green; (29) Michael Campbell v (36) Justin Rose; (13) Sergio Garcia v (52) Darren Clarke or Thomas Bjorn; (20) Stuart Appleby v (45) Charles Howell; (5) Ernie Els v (60) Charl Schwartzel or Bradley Dredge; (28) Ian Poulter v (37) Bart Bryant; (12) Trevor Immelman v (53) Thomas Bjorn or Steve Stricker; (21) Chris DiMarco v (44) Brett Wetterich

(2) Jim Furyk v (63) Shaun Micheel or Brett Quigley; (31) Angel Cabrera v (34) Chad Campbell; (15) Davis Love v (50) Ben Crane or Mike Weir; (18) David Toms v (47) Arron Oberholser or Rory Sabbatini; (7) Vijay Singh v (58) John Rollins or Scott Verplank; (26) Robert Karlsson v (39) Stephen Ames; (10) Padraig Harrington v (55) Lee Westwood or Zach Johnson; (23) Stewart Cink v (42) Jeev Milkha Singh

(3) Adam Scott v (62) Richard Green or Shaun Micheel; (30) Yang Yong-eun v (35) Rod Pampling; (14) Paul Casey v (51) Mike Weir or Darren Clarke; (19) Colin Montgomerie v (46) Johan Edfors; (6) Retief Goosen v (59) Scott Verplank or Charl Schwartzel; (27) Joe Durant v (38) Niclas Fasth; (11) Geoff Ogilvy v (54) Steve Stricker or Lee Westwood; (22) Jose Maria Olazabal v (43) Paul Goydos

Check out www.waggleroom.com for a nice bit about The Wop Genius's impressive 31 Top-10 finishes without a victory. This is like dating a new girl every week, but never getting laid...but enough about my love life.

Things are winding down for Fred Couples who withdrew from the Pro-Am at Pebble Beach with an unspecified injury. My money is on his back, which holds up about as well over time as this.

Finally, just when you thought it couldn't get hotter, more of the FGA's new favorite, Rachel McAdams: