Steve Stricker’s 2013 Season Should Not Be Overlooked

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Published: September 26, 2013

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Earlier this week, the PGA Tour announced the five nominees for the 2013 PGA Tour Player of the Year award. They include:

Tiger Woods (five wins) Match Kuchar (two wins) Phil Mickelson (two wins including the Open Championship) Adam Scott (two wins including the Masters) Henrik Stenson (two wins and the FedEx Cup title) While Steve Stricker did not win a PGA Tour event in 2013 and was rightfully excluded from the Player of the Year Award nominees, his accomplishments this season should not be overlooked.

Stricker, 46, made the decision to semi-retire and play a limited schedule of just 13 events this season. He didn’t attend the Open Championship or the first FedEx Cup Playoff event at Liberty National and skipped a handful of other events which he had normally attended in previous years.

But despite taking up to six weeks off between events in some cases, Stricker somehow managed to have one of the best seasons of anyone on the PGA Tour and one of the top seasons of his career.

In the 13 events Stricker attended, he made all 13 cuts, had 11 top-25 finishes and eight top-10 finishes (which included four second-place finishes).

Stricker earned $4.44 million for an average of $341,579 per event, which landed him seventh on the PGA Tour’s year-end Money List.

Stricker also won the Byron Nelson Award, which is presented by the PGA Tour to the player with the lowest adjusted scoring average for the season. And the only reason why Stricker was not the recipient of the more prestigious Vardon Trophy for scoring average was because the PGA of America requires players to have completed at least 60 rounds on the PGA Tour in order to be eligible (Stricker played only 51 rounds on the PGA Tour in 2013).

Stricker would spend weeks at home hanging out with his family, hunting or working on his charity foundation, then he’d grab his clubs, meet up with the Tour, finis...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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