After an exciting 2016, the world awaits Tiger's return in 2017

BRIEF tenures on top of the men's world rankings signify that no one single golfer ruled the roost in the season just gone by. The baton of bragging rights and much more shifted from Jordan Spieth to Rory McIlroy to Jason Day in an exciting year of golf in 2016 when the balance of power shifted as much as the winds on a cold day at Fiji's oceanic Natadola Bay course.

The excitement was sustained when the likes of Henrik Stenson and Dustin Johnson threw in their names in the golden pot with impeccable displays.

Stenson, the sensational Swede, and Johnson, the American ace, weighed in further with respective Major victories that cemented their status as golfers with the Midas touch.

Stenson outslugged the veteran "Lefty", Phil Mickelson, at Royal Troon with a spectacular finish of nine-under 63 on a birdie-fe…