Tiger Woods is still considered to be the best golfer in the world and this year he has the hardware to prove it, as he won the PGA Tour Player of the Year award for the eleventh time in his career, which came after he won five times on tour this season.
According to ESPN.com, Woods was voted the winner of the award in the same year that he won back his number one ranking and won more times on Tour than any other golfer. Woods did not win a major once again, a streak that is starting to get longer and longer, but he won five tournaments this year and looked impressive while doing so, including at the Players Championship.
Woods also won the Farmers Insurance Open as well as the WGC-Cadillac Championship and overall he won two World Golf Championship events. After winning the award he was congratulated by his girlfriend Lindsey Vonn on Twitter and he said to reporters afterwards that he felt it was very special to win the award.
The voting likely wasn't all too close, despite not Woods winning a major, as he won over twice as many tournaments as anyone else and ended up having the most PGA money as well as the lowest scoring average, which netter him the Vardon Trophy and now he will head into next year looking for that elusive next major championship.
Woods did not win a major, but he played his most consistent golf this year after a couple up and down years and now he is back in the number one ranking position after taking it back from Rory McIlroy and after winning five times this year, he likely will be keeping that for a while. Woods beat out some worth candidates, including Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott, both of whom won majors this year.
Even though the PGA tour does not disclose the voting, chances are it wasn't too close considering how well Woods played. While Mickelson also won twice this year including his major, the overall body of work was enough to give it to Woods this year. Woods has now won the award 11 times and while he said he was "satisfied" with his year, he said that he felt he played well during the majors despite not getting a victory.