Spieth voted PGA Tour Player of the Year
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REUTERS – American world number one Jordan Spieth was named on Friday as the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year after a stellar 2014-15 campaign highlighted by two major victories among his five wins.
The 22-year-old landed the coveted honour after clinching the first two majors of the season — the Masters and U.S. Open — before finishing one shot out of a British Open playoff in July and being runner-up at the PGA Championship in August.
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Spieth ended his campaign in triumphant style with victory at the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta last week where he also clinched overall FedExCup playoff honours and the $10 million jackpot.
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Spieth made 21 of 25 cuts on the PGA Tour, including four runner-up spots, as his earnings for the season ballooned to $22 million because of the FedExCup bonus.
He set a record for official earnings on the U.S. circuit, his tally of $12,030,465 eclipsing the previous mark of $10,905,166 established by Vijay Singh in 2004.
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Spieth claimed Player of the Year honours over rivals Jason Day of Australia, Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy and fellow American Rickie Fowler in a vote of his peers.
(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Frank Pingue)