What a great weekend for the PGA at the Tour Championship. In the mix on the final day was a great collection of both talented, marketable and exciting players in Camilo Villegas, Sergio Garcia, Anthony Kim and Phil Mickelson.

Remarkably, Villegas came from behind to win his second straight huge tournament (he also won the BMW Championship, the third leg of the FedExCup playoffs) after having never won before in 85 starts on Tour. Once again, golf is a crazy game.

However, he didn’t win the FedExCup trophy or the 10 million dollars in bonus money that went to the winner of that title. No, that honor went to Vijay Singh, who finished tied for 22nd place … out of 30 players.

You see, Singh had won two tournaments of the four-tournament playoffs as well. Just the first two, which clinched the cup early on and took out a lot of the drama the PGA Tour had hoped to produce.

You can’t blame the PGA for trying, but golf just doesn’t lend itself to a playoff like the other sports. Still, the four end-of-the-year tournaments produced great fields and great golf so all in all it was a success.

The continued emergence of some of the younger stars like Villegas, Kim and Garcia was also just what golf needed with Tiger still on the sidelines. Before this past month I wouldn’t have thrown Villegas into this level, but now you can’t keep him out of the upper echelon.

In terms of pure star power, though, Kim has clearly emerged as the next big thing following his Ryder Cup heroics. He was constantly fist-pumping, waving his arms to get the crowd pumped and running around high-fiving teammates. He was America’s answer to the jolt of energy Sergio Garcia has provided the European team the past decade and he was also the team’s best player. And to think, he’s only 23.

And thus ends the last meaningful weekend in golf. Sure, the Fall Finish is still to come, but don’t expect to see players like Kim or Villegas making there way to the Frys.com or the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open (I’m not making that up).

There will be some drama, though, with players like my Wake Forest classmate Bill Haas trying to earn their PGA Tour card for next year, so yours truly will probably stay tuned.

Also, congrats to Metropolis Country Club assistant Colin Amaral on his win at the Met PGA Championship. I was at Glen Oaks Club the final two days and the 35-year-old played remarkably in winning by a staggering six shots. He also picked up a check for $15,000. Not bad for three days work.