Korea and the Asian Tour were celebrating on Sunday after another memorable Major campaign with K.J. Choi and Y.E. Yang finishing in the top-eight in the Masters Tournament.Yang created history last August in becoming the first Asian player to win a Major when he captured the US PGA Championship. Now in the very next Major Championship, Choi and Yang added another chapter to the growing emergence of the Asian Tour by finishing joint fourth and eighth respectively in the 74th staging of the Masters at Augusta National.

Choi went within a whisker of emulating Yang as a Major champion in carding an eventual final round three-under-par 69 to end the week in tied fourth with world number one Tiger Woods, five shots adrift of winner Phil Mickelson. Mickelson held off the challenges of playing companion Lee Westwood and also Choi, who trailed the American by one stroke on the 11th hole.

For nearly the entire last year, Phil Mickelson has barely resembled the same golfer that we always knew him as. His world had been shattered when his wife, Amy, was diagnosed with breast cancer. And hardly had Amy's treatment gotten underway that the next big blow came along: his mother was also diagnosed with the same ailment.

The moments he shared with Amy as he had wrapped up his 3rd Masters crown said it all. Those who follow the game would know that he's always had his family by green-side whenever he's won something important, and just like before, Amy was there waiting for him, and so was his mother, Mary. Phil said later on he wasn't sure whether she'd be there, and it was quite apparent to see that it meant more to him to be with her at that moment than anything else.

To win your first Major tournament is never easy, especially when you go into the final round holding the lead. The amount of media and spectator attention itself can be overwhelming. But even worse is knowing that the rest of the field is eyeing you up, plotting on taking you down. Golf is, after all, a game where the ability to hold your nerves is way more important than the strength of your arms.

The task awaiting Lee Westwood on Sunday at the Masters is simple: hold off the likes of Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, and whoever else takes his chance to go past him. There will be cries for blood from the gallery, looking for further excitement in what has already proved to be a Masters like few others. A lot of pressure lies on Westwood's shoulders, with the tag of being one of the best in the World not to have won a Major yet, and also the hopes of a nation that puts so much pride in sporting glory, yet always frustrated by the lack of it. No Englishman has won a Major since Nick Faldo won here in 1996, and Westwood would know that well.

For long, England has been starved of Major triumphs. The last winner from the nation was Nick Faldo, all the way back in 1996. But as the play ended on Friday at Augusta, there were two names atop the Leaderboard, hoping to finally put an end to this anomaly.

Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter had shown their quality over the past year, with Westwood picking up the European Order of Merit while Poulter broke into the Top 10 of the World rankings. And the duo were the only members of the leading pack to card sub-70 scores as they took their places at the top of the Leaderboard, 2 strokes clear of the rest of the field at 8-under par. It's the first time for either of them to be in the lead of a Major.