IT’S April and that can mean only one thing in sporting terms - it’s the Masters.

It’s the first of golf’s four Majors, it’s arguably the best of them all on the wonderful, unique Augusta course with it’s special demands.

Oddly enough, in the UK the TV coverage is shared this year - give me the BBC’s team over Sky’s any day - but it’s compulsive viewing all the same.

Can Tiger Woods finally re-invent himself after his fall from grace on and off the course?

Can new world number one Lee Westwood justify that exalted rating?

Can the Europeans generally build on their Celtic Manor Ryder Cup success and fare better than the Americans? Can Phil Mickelson follow up his stunning success in the Houston Open at the weekend with his fourth green jacket in eight years?

There remains an aura about the Masters with its exclusivity and it’s magnificent course, the presence of so many great golfers and the general ambience of the place.

Mickelson will be installed as favourite now, but this side of the pond we’ll all be rooting for a Westwood, a Poulter, a McIlroy, a McDowell after his Ryder Cup heroics and perhaps the most likely of all - Luke Donald.