Though the American players, spectators and critics present at the Augusta National at this season’s Masters, did a better job to keep soberness as they lined up to see Charl Schwartzle being presented with the green jacket by Phil Mickelson,

deep someplace inside they knew that the previous Major title is leaving the nation. It is a depressing time for American golf that outshined the sport for almost a century.

The nation not only generated some of the good players but also took the sport to all in all a different level, boosting the commercial value and popularity. The legends like Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods who unilaterally conquered the sport are nowhere to be seen.

3 of the top players in the globe are now from UK, the arch competitor of US golf. But that is not all. 4 out of the top 5, sixteen out of the top twenty five, and no less than thirty two players of the top fifty are non-Americans.

Mickelson has done a good job to hold the title in the Shell Houston Open at the beginning of this year but he alone can’t contain the English rampage. The United States perhaps relied too much on its single super star Woods and with his disgrace, things have gone rebellious and damage control is more hard than it was ever expected.

Woods is without a win since long time. In September 2009 he won his last PGA tour and has not won a Major since June 2008. As the Chairman of the International Sports management Chubby Chandler correctly says, "There required to be life after Tiger -- and I am not saying that Tiger's stopped, But there ought to be a prolongation of what goes on in golf. And if that is a different prolongation, then good."