Tiger Unanimous Player of the Year
Tiger wins the PGA Player of the Year again.
The Tiger Woods news keeps on rolling. Just one day before Tiger returns to action after a 2.5 month hiatus, the PGA announces that Tiger was voted as the PGA Tour player of the year for 2007. No surprise there. This the ninth time Tiger has won the award, just shy of his 32nd birthday.
What a year it was for Tiger. He won his 13th major, the PGA Championship at the end of the season. He also finished second at both the Masters and US Open tournaments. He won the inaugural Fedex Cup, or PGA playoffs by winning the final two Fedex Cup events collecting a cool $10 million deferred in the process. He finished with the lowest scoring average for all Tour players, or the Vardon Trophy as they call it. He led the PGA Tour’s money list. On and on it goes.
Most remarkable about the year that Tiger had perhaps was that he did it with a scaled down schedule, to accomodate the birth of his baby girl, Sam Alexis. Imagine the year Tiger would’ve had if he won even just one of those two runner up finishes in Majors and played more than 20 events.
Golf.com points out that not all was rosy for Tiger this year. There were those 2 aforementioned losses in Majors. At the British Open, he had one of his worst performances. Then late in the year Tiger lost to Phil Mickelson at the Deustche Bank. And finally, Mike Weir beat Tiger straight up in the final day of President’s Cup play, though Team USA did win easily overall.
I think Tiger can live with those mulligans, and with all the distractions behind him, 2008 should be yet another year of the Tiger.
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