The Top 10 Golfers of 2004
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3. Ryan Moore
Who? Ryan Moore had, in 2004, what Golf Magazine has called "the greatest amateur season in golf's modern era." It's a season that has been compared by some to the amateur records of Bobby Jones. Moore, a senior at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, won both the U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Amateur Public Links championships, becoming just the fifth person to win two USGA amateur championships in one year.
He also won the Sahalee Players Championship, the Western Amateur and the NCAA Championship, for what some are calling the "amateur slam." If you haven't heard the name of Ryan Moore before, you'll surely be hearing it quite a bit in the future.
2. Annika Sorenstam
Ho, hum. Just another season in paradise for Sorenstam: seven wins (with, at the time of this writing, two tournaments left on the LPGA schedule), four more second-place finishes. One of those wins was a major. Sorenstam, at the time of this writing, has 55 career victories, which ties her with Besty Rawls for fourth place on the LPGA Tour's all-time wins list.
1. Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh won nine times in 2004, including the PGA Championship. Those nine wins ties Singh with Tiger Woods, who won nine times in 2000, for most wins in a season since 1950, when Sam Snead won 11 times. Singh just missed becoming the first golfer to reach double-digit wins on the PGA Tour since Snead (it's only been done four times). Nine wins in a season is something that Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus never accomplished.
Singh become the first player to crack the $10 million mark in single-season earnings, and nearly doubled the winnings of PGA Tour money list runner-up Ernie Els. He won the scoring title and took over the No. 1 ranking in the world. The nine wins pushed Singh's career PGA Tour victory total to 24, tied with Gary Player on the all-time list. Those 24 wins also move him ahead of Phil Mickelson as the winningest active player not named Tiger Woods.
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3. Ryan Moore
Who? Ryan Moore had, in 2004, what Golf Magazine has called "the greatest amateur season in golf's modern era." It's a season that has been compared by some to the amateur records of Bobby Jones. Moore, a senior at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, won both the U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Amateur Public Links championships, becoming just the fifth person to win two USGA amateur championships in one year.
He also won the Sahalee Players Championship, the Western Amateur and the NCAA Championship, for what some are calling the "amateur slam." If you haven't heard the name of Ryan Moore before, you'll surely be hearing it quite a bit in the future.
2. Annika Sorenstam
Ho, hum. Just another season in paradise for Sorenstam: seven wins (with, at the time of this writing, two tournaments left on the LPGA schedule), four more second-place finishes. One of those wins was a major. Sorenstam, at the time of this writing, has 55 career victories, which ties her with Besty Rawls for fourth place on the LPGA Tour's all-time wins list.
1. Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh won nine times in 2004, including the PGA Championship. Those nine wins ties Singh with Tiger Woods, who won nine times in 2000, for most wins in a season since 1950, when Sam Snead won 11 times. Singh just missed becoming the first golfer to reach double-digit wins on the PGA Tour since Snead (it's only been done four times). Nine wins in a season is something that Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus never accomplished.
Singh become the first player to crack the $10 million mark in single-season earnings, and nearly doubled the winnings of PGA Tour money list runner-up Ernie Els. He won the scoring title and took over the No. 1 ranking in the world. The nine wins pushed Singh's career PGA Tour victory total to 24, tied with Gary Player on the all-time list. Those 24 wins also move him ahead of Phil Mickelson as the winningest active player not named Tiger Woods.
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