Tiger Woods Wins PGA POTY

In what was as close a race as Secretariat vs. field, Tiger Woods was named PGA of America Player of the Year on Wednesday for the 10th time in his career.

The award was basically a lock for Woods, who won six events this season, the FedEx Cup, the Vardon Trophy and the Bryon Nelson Award for sporting the lowest scoring average, a salty 68.05. The main reason Tiger was able to claim this award, and most likely the PGA Tour Player of the Year which will be announced at a later date, is because all the major winners didn't make much noise in the other events.

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Y.E. Yang was the only major winner to claim another title on the PGA Tour, the Honda Classic, with Stewart Cink, Angel Cabrera and Lucas Glover sporting their lone major win in their 2009 trophy cases.

The questions swirled after the PGA Championship, where Woods finished second to Yang, if he would, in fact, be player of the year, but a solid end of the season that saw Tiger win one of the FedEx Cup events and finish second in two others was a good enough close to give Tiger the POTY.

Also, was there any real question? Tiger, who most would say "struggled" in 2009, still won twice as many tournaments as anyone else on tour, including two more than all the major championship winners combined. He also finished in the top-6 in three of the four majors and was in the top-10 an astonished 14 out of 17 tournaments.

So, yeah, all in all a good, solid year by Tiger's standards that was miles better than anyone else. It's become typical for Woods to claim regular tour titles, but he still reminds us that no matter how he hits it, he's still the best by years end.