Woods wins PGA Tour player of the year
December 18, 2009
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP)—Tiger Woods was voted the PGA Tour player of theyear by the players on Friday, the 10th time in his 13 years on tour that he haswon the award.
The PGA Tour does not disclose vote totals.
Woods started and finished the season the same way—with questions when hewould return. He was coming off knee surgery at the beginning of the year, andlast week announced an indefinitely leave to work on his marriage afteradmitting to infidelity.
In between, he won six PGA Tour events, captured the FedEx Cup and its $10million bonus, won the money title for the ninth time in his career with over$10.5 million, and had the lowest scoring average for the ninth time.
No one else won more than three times on the PGA Tour. It was only thesecond time that Woods was voted player of the year when he did not win a major.In a peculiar twist, Woods won in his final start before each of the fourmajors.
Marc Leishman of Australia was voted PGA Tour rookie of the year, becomingthe first since Charles Howell III in 2001 to win the award without having won atournament. Leishman was the only rookie to reach the FedEx Cup finale at theTour Championship.
Players voted on the awards over the last month, with balloting endingFriday.
It was the eighth time that Woods has swept all the major PGA Tour honors—Byron Nelson Award for the lowest adjusted scoring average (68.05), ArnoldPalmer Award for the money title and Jack Nicklaus Award for player of the year.
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