Your PGA Tour Player Of The Year is………drumroll please…..
Jordan Spieth!
Surprise. No, not in the least.
Spieth had a season to remember, a season to talk about for quite a while and he was named Friday as the tour’s POY.
Side note on Friday was rookie Daniel Berger took Rookie Of The Year honors, to no one’s surprise as well.
Spieth banked more than $22 million in earnings thanks to his victory in the Tour Championship last week that earned him the $10 million FedEx Cup bonus money. He already had a record-setting season without it.
Add in his Masters and U.S. Open victories, his one-shot miss at the British and runnerup to Jason Day at the PGA and you have what was a super-human effort from a player who was only 21 when the year began.
Day jumped into the POY conversation after winning the PGA and going on a six-week tear. After Spieth missed the cut in the first two FedEx Cup events, Day was a possibility if he had won the Tour Championship but it was Spieth who closed the deal.
Berger was the only rookie to finish in the top 30 and he banked more than $3 million in earnings thanks to a huge run at playoff time. He beat out Justin Thomas, Tony Finau and Nick Taylor.
