Five players will compete for PGA Tour Player of the Year award
The 2010 PGA Tour Player of the Year race has come down to five players, the Tour said on Tuesday 23 November.
Americans Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson, Matt Kuchar, and Dustin Johnson as well as South African Ernie Els are all in the running for the annual award. The five names were selected by the
tour’s player advisory council and player directors and the winner is set to be announced on 4 December after tour members cast their votes.
Jim Furyk, who has already won the PGA of America’s Player of the Year award, won three times on the PGA Tour this season, more than any other player. He was victorious at the Transitions
Championship, the Verizon Heritage, and the season-ending Tour Championship. Furyk also won the FedEx Cup, the season-long competition culminating in four play-off events, and the $10 million bonus that comes with it.
Mickelson won only one event in 2010 but it was the Masters, which gave him his fourth career major title and his third green jacket.
Kuchar won the Barclays in August and had enough high finishes to earn the Arnold Palmer Award, given to the player who finishes atop the money list. Kuchar, who won $4,910,477 in 2010,
also won the Byron Nelson Award for finishing the season with the lowest stroke average at 69.61.
Johnson won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the BMW Championship while Els won the WGC CA Championship and the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
The race for player of the year is more wide open than usual as Tiger Woods has generally been the consensus favourite to win the award. But Woods, who has earned the honour nine of the
past 11 seasons, suffered through his first winless season on tour after his public image took a hit with stories of his marital infidelities dominating the headlines.
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