Tiger Woods snares 11th PGA Tour Player of the Year award
The honour caps a season in which the 37-year-old won five events and led all players with US$8.6 million in prize money
Tiger Woods was named the US PGA Tour’s Player of the Year for the first time in four years and a record-extending 11th for his career.
It caps a season in which he won five events and led all players with US$8.6 million in prize money.
Woods, 37, won the award in a vote of US tour players. Matt Kuchar, Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott and Henrik Stenson were also on the ballot.
The No1 player in the Official World Golf Ranking, Woods won five of the 16 tour events in which he competed. No other player on the ballot won more than twice this season, which ended on September 22 with Stenson’s victory at the Tour Championship in Atlanta.
Woods, who has not won one of golf’s four major titles since the 2008 US Open, said he was “very satisfied” with his season after finishing 22nd out of 30 players in the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club.
“Overall, at the end of the year, I think it’s been a really good year,” Woods said as the Tour Championship ended.
Woods was second in the tour’s season-long points competition to Stenson of Sweden, the winner of the points title and its US$10 million bonus to go with his victories at the Tour Championship and Deutsche Bank Championship, two of the four season-ending play-off events.