List of golf awards
This is a list of golf awards.
PGA Tour
Award | Year founded | Notes |
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PGA Player of the Year | 1948 | Selected using a points system with marks awarded for wins, money list position and scoring average. |
PGA Tour Player of the Year | 1990 | Selected by the tour players by ballot. Also known as the Jack Nicklaus Trophy. |
Rookie of the Year | 1990 | Players who are eligible are in their first season of PGA Tour membership. |
Vardon Trophy | 1937 | Awarded (by the PGA of America) to leader in adjusted scoring average with a minimum of 60 rounds played. |
Byron Nelson Award | 1980 | Awarded (by the PGA Tour) to leader in adjusted scoring average with a minimum of 50 rounds played. |
Arnold Palmer Award | 1981 | Given to the player with the most money earned in a season. |
Payne Stewart Award | 2000 | Given to the player whose "values align with the character, charity and sportsmanship that Stewart showed". |
Comeback Player of the Year | 1991 | Players vote for the honoree. |
PGA Tour Champions
Award | Year founded | Notes |
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Jack Nicklaus Trophy | 1990 | Player of the Year, determined by vote of the players at season's end. |
Arnold Palmer Award | 1980 | Given to the player with the most money earned in a season. |
Charles Schwab Cup | 2001 | Points are earned for thousands of dollars earned in top-ten finishes at tournaments. |
Rookie of the Year | 1990 | Players vote for the honoree. |
Comeback Player of the Year | 1991 | Players vote for the honoree. |
Byron Nelson Award | 1980 | Given to the golfer with the lowest scoring average of the season. |
European Tour
Award | Year founded | Notes |
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Harry Vardon Trophy | 1937 | Awarded to the leader of the Race to Dubai, previously known as the Order of Merit. This has largely been based on prize money since 1980, but has previously used a points system and stroke average at different times. |
Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year | 1960 | Selected by a panel comprising the PGA European Tour, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.Andrews, and the Association of Golf Writers. |
Seve Ballesteros Award | 2008 | Selected by a ballot of tour members. Founded as the European Tour's Players' Player of the Year Award, and renamed in honour of Ballesteros in 2017. |
United States Golf Association
- Bob Jones Award
- Joe Dey Award
- Herbert Warren Wind Book Award
- Green Section Award
LPGA Tour
Intercollegiate golf
- Haskins Award
- Ben Hogan Award
- Edith Cummings Munson Golf Award
- Dinah Shore Trophy Award
- Jack Nicklaus Award - given to the best NCAA Division I golf player
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