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GOLF: PGA TOUR: Experts select their PGA TOUR Biggest Surprise of the Year

/noticias.info/ The PGA TOUR season was filled with enough interesting stories to rival the number of golf balls harvested annually from the lake surrounding the 17th green at the TPC Sawgrass.

PGATOUR.com's staff of veteran golf writers helped bring you many of those stories during the season. Now it's their task to sort through the many memorable moments and pick the top performances as we look back on 2006.

Check back over the next four days to see what they've decided - continuing today with the year's Biggest Surprise.

Melanie Hauser
PGATOUR.com Contributor

Phil Mickelson
All surprises aren't good ones and this one? The golf world is still shaking its collective head. One minute we're thinking Mickelslam, the next we're wondering if there's anything left. The 72nd hole at Winged Foot was his defining moment. Three unimaginable swings and he was down for the count. No rival for you-know-who, no three majors in a row. No next level up. Just a free-fall.

Helen Ross
PGATOUR.com Chief of Correspondents

Troy Matteson
He set a single-season earnings record on the Nationwide Tour last year, so we all knew he could play. Troy Matteson just took a while getting ramped up after he joined the PGA TOUR -- 27 events to be exact. He tied for eighth in his 28th start, shared sixth the next week and then won the Frys.com Open. Matteson wasn't finished, though - tying for second at the FUNAI Classic at WALT DISNEY WORLD Resort and ninth at the Chrysler Championship. He won $1.4 million of his $1.7 million in those five events. Not bad for a rookie.

Dave Shedloski
PGATOUR.com Senior Correspondent

Brett Wetterich
With apologies to Geoff Ogilvy and his unlikely U.S. Open victory, we have to go with Brett Wetterich. How many guys go from q-school to making the U.S. Ryder Cup team in 10 months? Up until this year, the answer was zero. Then Wetterich, a long-hitting Ohio-bred player, won the EDS Byron Nelson Championship, posted a couple of runner-up finishes, and found himself not only playing for Uncle Sam in Ireland but also making THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola.

Mike Vitti
ShotLink Analyst

Brett Quigley
In his nine previous seasons on the PGA TOUR, Brett Quigley never finished better than 56th on the money list, but this year he finished in a solid 20th position. Ranking 13th in scoring average in 2006, Quigley used his career year to jump from 151st to 59th in the Official World Golf Ranking and is poised for another solid season in 2007. notas_de_prensa_archivo