The awards are starting to pile up for Tiger Woods again. Woods has won the points-based award as player of the year from the PGA of America, which was virtually certain when the FedEx Cup ended and became a mathematical fact this week. His six US PGA Tour victories (10 points each) were twice as many as anyone else, and Woods already wrapped up the US PGA Tour money list (20 points) and lowest adjusted scoring average (20 points). It was the 10th time Woods has won the PGA of America award. He also wins the Vardon Trophy from the PGA of America and the Byron Nelson Award from the US PGA Tour for having the lowest adjusted scoring average at 68.05. It's the eighth time he has won the Vardon. Woods wins the Arnold Palmer Award on the US PGA Tour for winning the money title for the ninth time, earning just more than $10.5m. Still to be decided is the Jack Nicklaus Trophy for the tour player of the year, which is a vote of the players. The other candidates likely will be Steve Stricker and Phil Mickelson, with three wins each, or perhaps Y.E. Yang, who won the US PGA Championship and Honda Classic. None of the other major champions won more than once. If Woods were to win US PGA Tour player of the year, it would be only the fourth time since it began in 1990 that a player won the award without having won a major. Woods (2003), Greg Norman (1995) and Wayne Levi (1990) were the others. Jim Furyk ended his 2009 season on the US PGA Tour with a 62 in last week's Las Vegas Open and finished the year with 11 top 10s (second only to Tiger Woods) and nearly $4 million in earnings.
