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Woods wins 11th Player of the Year Award
Tiger Woods didn’t win a major in 2013, but his five wins including golf’s “fifth major,” The Players Championship, were enough for him to be voted the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year.
Woods played in 16 PGA Tour events in 2013, winning five tournaments: The Farmers Insurance Open, the WGC-Cadillac Championship, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Players Championship and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. While his five wins were three more than any other player, the quality of Woods’ wins has been widely debated in recent weeks. He has won the Farmers Insurance Open seven times in his career, and the Arnold Palmer Invitational and WGC-Bridgestone Invitational each eight times. Those three events accounts for nearly 30 percent of his 79 career PGA Tour wins.
Player of the Year nominee Phil Mickelson, on the other hand, broke through for his fifth-career major victory at a tournament that few experts expected him to ever win, the British Open. He did so after a heart-breaking sixth runner-up finish at the U.S. Open in June, where he finished two shots behind Justin Rose. Mickelson also won the week before the British Open at the Scottish Open, and while it doesn’t count as an official PGA Tour win, it marked his first win on European soil. And at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, Mickelson recorded the second-lowest round of the year, a 60 in Round 1, in route to victory.
Also in the running for Player of the Year was Henrik Stenson, who like Mickelson had two PGA Tour wins in 2013. Both of Stenson’s wins came in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs. He won the Deutsche Bank Championship and Tour Championship to win the season-long FedEx Cup title and its $10 million bonus. But the Swede’s hot streak began well before the FedEx Cup. Since March, Stenson has had six other top-10 finishes: the Arnold Palmer Invitational (T8), the Shell Houston Open (2), The Players (T5), the British Open (2), the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (T2) and the PGA Championship (3).
It appears that it’s “all about the W,” as Woods like to say, when it comes to the Player of the Year award. With the exception of 2008, when Padraig Harrington won two major championships, the PGA Tour players who vote on the Player of the Year Award have selected the golfer with the most wins or tied for the most wins as Player of the Year every year since 1999.
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Tour Photo Galleries
Photos from the 2024 RBC Heritage
GolfWRX is on site this week at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island for the RBC Heritage. Plenty of golfers who competed in the Masters last week will be making the quick turnaround in the Lowcountry of South Carolina as the Heritage is again one of the Tour’s Signature Events.
We have general albums for you to check out, as well as plenty of WITBs — including Justin Thomas and Justin Rose.
We’ll continue to update as more photos flow in from SC.
Check out links to all our photos, below.
General Albums
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Monday #1
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Monday #2
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Tuesday #1
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Tuesday #2
WITB Albums
- Justin Thomas – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Justin Rose – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Chandler Phillips – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Nick Dunlap – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Thomas Detry – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Austin Eckroat – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Xander Schauffele – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Jason Day – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Will Zalatoris – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Patrick Cantlay – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Ludvig Aberg – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Collin Morikawa – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Sam Burns – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Stephen Jaeger – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
Pullout Albums
- Wyndham Clark’s Odyssey putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- JT’s new Cameron putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Justin Thomas testing new Titleist 2 wood – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Cameron putters – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Odyssey putter with triple track alignment aid – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Scotty Cameron The Blk Box putting alignment aid/training aid – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Cameron putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Odyssey Ai One Eleven T putters – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Christian Bezuidenhout – testing new Callaway Ti 340 mini driver – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Rory McIlroy testing the new TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver Copper – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Xander Schauffele testing the Callaway Ti 340 mini driver & the DUW – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Byeong Hun An, two new L.A.B. Golf putter builds with “T” alignment – 2024 RBC Heritage
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Photos from the 2024 Valero Texas Open
GolfWRX is on site this week at the Valero Texas Open.
The event has been around since 1922, making it one of the oldest on the PGA Tour calendar. Over the years, it’s been held at a variety of courses across the Lone Star State, but it’s found its home at TPC San Antonio in recent years. Some of the biggest names in golf have taken home the title here, including Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan, Lee Trevino, and Ben Crenshaw.
GolfWRX has its usual assortment of general galleries, WITBs and special pull-out albums. As always, we’ll continue to update the links below as more photos come in from TPC San Antonio.
General Albums
WITB Albums
- Ben Taylor – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Paul Barjon – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Joe Sullivan – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Wilson Furr – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Ben Willman – SoTex PGA Section Champ – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Jimmy Stanger – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Rickie Fowler – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Harrison Endycott – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Vince Whaley – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Kevin Chappell – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Christian Bezuidenhout – WITB (mini) – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Scott Gutschewski – WITB – 2024 Valero Texas Open
Pullout Albums
- Cameron putter – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Ben Taylor with new Titleist TRS 2 wood – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Swag cover – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Greyson Sigg’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Davis Riley’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Josh Teater’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Hzrdus T1100 is back – – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Mark Hubbard testing ported Titleist irons – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Tyson Alexander testing new Titleist TRS 2 wood – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Hideki Matsuyama’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Valero Texas Open
- Cobra putters – 2024 Valero Texas Open
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Photos from the 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
GolfWRX is on site in the Lone Star State this week for the Texas Children’s Houston Open.
General galleries from the putting green and range, WITBs — including Thorbjorn Olesen and Zac Blair — and several pull-out albums await.
As always, we’ll continue to update as more photos flow in. Check out links to all our photos from Houston below.
General Albums
- 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open – Monday #1
- 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open – Monday #2
- 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open – Tuesday #1
- 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open – Tuesday #2
- 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open – Tuesday #3
WITB Albums
- Thorbjorn Olesen – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Ben Silverman – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Jesse Droemer – SoTX PGA Section POY – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- David Lipsky – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Martin Trainer – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Zac Blair – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Jacob Bridgeman – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Trace Crowe – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Daniel Berger – WITB(very mini) – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Chesson Hadley – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Callum McNeill – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Rhein Gibson – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Patrick Fishburn – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Peter Malnati – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Raul Pereda – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Gary Woodland WITB (New driver, iron shafts) – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Padraig Harrington WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
Pullout Albums
- Tom Hoge’s custom Cameron – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Cameron putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Piretti putters – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Ping putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Kevin Dougherty’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Bettinardi putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Cameron putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Erik Barnes testing an all-black Axis1 putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Tony Finau’s new driver shaft – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
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OVER THE TOP GOLF
Oct 3, 2013 at 5:29 pm
No question that Woods deserves the award even though I’m sure it seems like a dismal year to him.
Roddy
Sep 28, 2013 at 5:48 am
If it was anyone else but Tiger there would be no debate about it. 5 wins deserves to get player of the year. Just cause he didnt win a major doesnt mean it was a bad year. By his standards maybe it’s not what he wants, but for the rest of the golfing world that is a very good year.
Steve
Sep 28, 2013 at 1:09 pm
This is exactly it. His standards are higher than everyone else’s. Anyone else with 5 wins would be ecstatic and easily be player of the year over people with 2 wins (unless BOTH were majors, then we might have an argument), but Tiger would trade those 5 for 1 major.
naflack
Sep 28, 2013 at 3:12 am
pretty impressive that he didnt win a major, which by his own previous standards is somewhat disappointing…and still is voted player of the year by his peers.
Tom
Sep 28, 2013 at 10:38 am
The PGA face is Tiger Woods. Tigers counterparts know this. They also know that when Tiger plays a tournament the course attendance and viewers goes up, that equates to $$$$. It’s this way in all sports from soccer to tennis and football. Sad that it comes to this and not just the love of a team or the sport itself.
Jack
Sep 27, 2013 at 10:06 pm
Quality of wins debated? That’s only if he starts playing against fields which don’t field the top talent on tour. If he plays against a full field of the best players, what’s to question? I though debate whether he should have won, but Stenson didn’t really play well for the entire season, only the latter half.
Matt
Sep 28, 2013 at 12:58 am
Jack I believe the quality of winds debate is in regards to the fact that Tiger doesn’t seem to be able to bring his game anymore accept on those few select courses he’s very comfortable on and plays every year. The one exception being the players where he traditionally doesn’t play that well minus the one other win. Nevertheless 5 wins is 5 wins and pretty hard not to give him the player of the year award.
Brock
Sep 27, 2013 at 10:30 am
Stenson won the Deutsche Bank Championship, not the BMW (Zach Johnson).
Zak Kozuchowski
Sep 27, 2013 at 10:49 am
You’re right