PGA Tour Player of the Year picks

[B-Con]

Who do you think will (or should) win TOUR Player of the Year? My vote goes to Luke Donald. Really solid player this year. (I thought about making a poll, but I was sure I'd leave someone important out and you can't edit poll options.)

[Zwick]

I chose Donald too. He was unbelievably consistant, always on the leaderboard and a very solid OWGR No.1

I don't think Bradley deserves the POY, he was too inconsistent in my opinion, lots of missed cuts and average play. But I give him the Rookie of the Year.

I think there are no real contenders other than those two. Perhaps Simpson, Haas or Schwartzel, but their seasons were not POY worthy in my opinion.

[Elvisliveson]

Originally Posted by B-Con

Who do you think will (or should) win TOUR Player of the Year?

My vote goes to Luke Donald. Really solid player this year.

(I thought about making a poll, but I was sure I'd leave someone important out and you can't edit poll options.)

Certainly nobody has been as consistently good as Donald this year and he is the leading money winner. But, my problem is he was never great and only had one win.  I am only speaking for myself and from my biased mindset, but I value victories and especially those in majors, more than consistently high finishes week after week.  Therefore, I would go with Keegan Bradley simply because he had more victories than Donald, one of those was a major and no one else on tour can match that this year. (No other major winner had another PGA tour victory). I don't care about all of Donald's top 10 finishes and Bradley's missed cuts.  I remember back in 2005, I believe Natalie Gulbis led the LPGA in top 10 finishes and no one would ever consider her a player of the year candidate and in fact kept asking why she didn't win. Victories and majors are the bottom line for me (JMO) and on that front Donald has failed. But that said, I have no doubt Donald will get POY.

[Stretch]

Can't be much doubt about that, surely? #1 on the money list ($5.84 million), #1 in top 10 finishes (13 of 18), #1 in scoring average (68.86), #1 in putting (.773 strokes gained per round) and #1 in the OWGR.

Yeah, yeah, sure he'd "give it all up for one major", but if the question is who was consistently the best player on tour this year, the answer is blindingly obvious.

[Kieran123]

Tiger Woods no doubt :tumble:

[B-Con]

Tiger Woods no doubt :tumble:

Thought there was a bug on the forum as I scrolled, until I got to the tumbleweeds... :-P

[jamo]

My vote goes to Donald as well. He was just... the best.

[xxsoultonesxx]

From a viewers staindpoint I would vote Keegan Bradley. He put on the best show at the PGA that I've seen all year.  He's got quite a game.

Hard to knock Donald, though. He has the $$ and the stats to back it up.

[makaveli]

Talking about show Schwartzel at the Masters was pretty good as well!

Originally Posted by xxsoultonesxx

From a viewers staindpoint I would vote Keegan Bradley. He put on the best show at the PGA that I've seen all year.  He's got quite a game.

Hard to knock Donald, though. He has the $$ and the stats to back it up.

[MEfree]

Figured I revive this with the season complete...Congrats to Luke Donald supporters as the numbers here clearly support his case.

The fact that this is still up for debate amazes me as Luke Donald answered a lot of critics with his clutch win to take the $ title, but Luke made reference to the delay in sending out the ballots being an indication that there may be an American born player bias that could steal it away from him.

Donald, Simpson and Bradley are the only 3 with a shot and it should go to Donald as he is ahead or tied with those two with in every important category except Major wins.  Is there really a chance that he will be robbed?

[B-Con]

Is there really a chance that he will be robbed?

I hope not. Bradley was impressive, but not Donald impressive.

[makaveli]

imho:

- Donald, but if you really don't like that guy then...

- Rory cause of Masters meltdown and US Open recovery, but if you really don't like these 2 guys then...

- choose Bradley, Clarke or Schwartzel because of exciting playoff, romantic win or amazing finishing holes... but if you really don't care about major wins then...

- randomly choose Simpsons or Haas cause they are the 2 left they did something relevant this year, but at this point why not choosing...

- Tom Lewis and his opening round at The Open, his Silver Medal and his maiden win at the Portugal Masters?

To conclude: not giving this title to Luke is just ridiculous imho...

[TourSpoon]

Donald gets my vote with Bradely getting Rookie.

[jamo]

I might be biased, but I think it should go to Bradley. They've each got 2 PGA Tour wins (Bradley has 3 if you count the Grand Slam of golf, which I don't), but Bradley won a major. All of Donald's top 10s are what make it close.

[Stretch]

Originally Posted by jamo

I might be biased, but I think it should go to Bradley. They've each got 2 PGA Tour wins (Bradley has 3 if you count the Grand Slam of golf, which I don't), but Bradley won a major. All of Donald's top 10s are what make it close.

Agree with you on most things Jamo, but not this. Luke made 17 of 19 cuts and won the Vardon Trophy with an adjusted stroke average of 68.86. Keegan made 18 of 28 cuts and was 30th in stroke average at 70.26. It's really hard to argue that he played the better golf when looking at the year as a whole. Even if you're also from Hopkinton!

[iacas]

Luke Donald, hands down. Keegan can win Rookie of the Year and if Luke Donald teases him about winning POTY, he can say "I can't hear you with this Wanamaker Trophy blocking my ears."

[boogielicious]

Oh Come On!  John Daly definitely!!  Not even close!!

Luke should win.  I hope he gets a major next year as well.

[tristanhilton85]

I didn't realize that there was even a question on this... Donald for sure.  Like others have said, Keegan had a great year, but Donald was far and away the best and most consistent player all year long.