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GOLF: PGA TOUR: Experts make their picks for Player 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.

It's safe to say today's Player of the Year pick wasn't one of their hardest tasks.

Melanie Hauser
PGATOUR.com Contributor

Tiger Woods
It wasn't just good. Or great. It was all-world. Until you've been there, you have no idea what it's like to watch a parent slip away. The way he played all spring, the way he showed us what was important in life was just the beginning. Then he took our breath away. Every week. He found his swing at the Cialis Western Open and didn't stop until he had won six in a row, two of them majors.

Helen Ross
PGATOUR.com Chief of Correspondents

Tiger Woods
With all due respect to Masters champion Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk, who rose to No. 2 in the world this year, there can be no other choice than Tiger Woods. Just when we thought his 2000 season would go down in history as the best ever, he gave us another one to consider. He went from extraordinary pain after losing his father in May to enormous triumph - winning his last six tournaments in a row. Woods, in fact, won more than half of his 15 starts, eight times to be exact, and just under $10 million. Need we say more?

Dave Shedloski
PGATOUR.com Senior Correspondent

Tiger Woods
Let's start with his eight victories in 15 events - the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win more than half his starts. He ended the year with a streak of six straight TOUR titles starting at the British Open at Royal Liverpool and his 54 PGA TOUR victories at year's end nosed him ahead of Billy Casper and Byron Nelson. Only Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Hogan and Arnold Palmer are ahead of him on the all-time list. The Open Championship and his win a month later at the PGA Championship give him 12 majors. In his current win streak he is a combined 109-under par and has won by a combined 20 strokes. He earned another Byron Nelson Award for lowest stroke average and Arnold Palmer Award for his eighth money title. It was one of the greatest seasons since, well, since his 2000 campaign.

Mike Vitti
ShotLink Analyst

Tiger Woods
Even though he only played in 15 events, Tiger Woods recorded eight victories and finished in the top-10 eleven times. Along the way, he led the TOUR in scoring average, greens in regulation, proximity to the hole, going for the green and par breaker percentage. Woods also finished in the top-10 in putting average, scrambling, driving distance, birdie or better conversion percentage and bounce back percentage. notas_de_prensa_archivo