Tiger voted PGA Tour Player of the Year for 11th time
In the end, five wins — including two World Golf Championships — trump two wins, including a major.
Tiger Woods has been voted by his peers as Player of the Year for the 11th time, the PGA Tour announced on Friday.
"It's been just a fantastic year all around," Woods said. "It's also an incredible feeling to be voted by your peers and to have that type of respect is something that's very humbling."
Jordan Spieth was named Rookie of the Year.
Woods won five times in 2013 — Farmers Insurance Open, WGC-Cadillac Championship, Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Players Championship, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational — to take his career total to 79 PGA Tour wins.
Those five wins were enough to beat out Phil Mickelson, who delivered one of the year's big highlights with his British Open title among his two Tour wins, and Adam Scott, also a two-time winner who broke through in April to win the Masters for his first major title.
FedExCup champion Henrik Stenson and Matt Kuchar, who each were two-time winners on Tour in 2013, also were on the ballot.
Woods also had eight top-10s, including one runner-up, in 16 starts, and he finished second overall in the FedExCup.
He also led the Tour in earnings and won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average.
The outcome should have been a foregone conclusion: Had anyone other than Woods won the five tournaments Woods won, plus the money title and Vardon Trophy, there would have been no debate at all.
But Woods' seasons usually are measured by major titles, and his drought in the four biggest events has now reached five full years.
In the end, five wins — including two World Golf Championships — trump two wins, including a major.
Tiger Woods has been voted by his peers as Player of the Year for the 11th time, the PGA Tour announced on Friday.
"It's been just a fantastic year all around," Woods said. "It's also an incredible feeling to be voted by your peers and to have that type of respect is something that's very humbling."
Jordan Spieth was named Rookie of the Year.
Woods won five times in 2013 — Farmers Insurance Open, WGC-Cadillac Championship, Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Players Championship, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational — to take his career total to 79 PGA Tour wins.
Those five wins were enough to beat out Phil Mickelson, who delivered one of the year's big highlights with his British Open title among his two Tour wins, and Adam Scott, also a two-time winner who broke through in April to win the Masters for his first major title.
FedExCup champion Henrik Stenson and Matt Kuchar, who each were two-time winners on Tour in 2013, also were on the ballot.
Woods also had eight top-10s, including one runner-up, in 16 starts, and he finished second overall in the FedExCup.
He also led the Tour in earnings and won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average.
The outcome should have been a foregone conclusion: Had anyone other than Woods won the five tournaments Woods won, plus the money title and Vardon Trophy, there would have been no debate at all.
But Woods' seasons usually are measured by major titles, and his drought in the four biggest events has now reached five full years.
