Posted at 12:28 p.m., Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Golf: Woods, Haas, Flanagan earn tour honors
Advertiser Staff
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Tiger Woods was voted PGA Tour player of the year by his peers today, the third straight year he won the award and the ninth time in his 11 years as a pro.Jay Haas was voted Champions Tour player of the year, while Nick Flanagan won the award on the Nationwide Tour.
Woods also won player of the year from the PGA of America, a points-based system. The PGA Tour award is a vote, and Phil Mickelson was only other player on the ballot.
Woods won seven times, including the PGA Championship for his 13th career major. He also won two of the four events in PGA Tour playoffs to capture the inaugural FedEx Cup.
It gave him another sweep of PGA Tour awards named after three of the biggest names in history — the Jack Nicklaus Trophy for player of the year, the Arnold Palmer Award for leading the money list ($10.8 million) and the Byron Nelson Trophy for having the lowest scoring average (67.79).
Steve Stricker was voted comeback player of the year, the first player to win the award in consecutive seasons. He won in 2006 after starting the year with conditional status and finishing 34th on the money list. This year, he won for the first time in more than six years and was fourth on the money list, moving into the top five in the world ranking.
Brandt Snedeker was rookie of the year, winning the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C. George McNeill was the only other rookie to win this year, although Snedeker was the only rookie to reach the Tour Championship.
