Golf Digest:Tiger Woods has been named US PGA Player of the Year for the ninth time in 11 seasons.
Woods dominated the US Tour, winning seven titles in 16 starts, including his 13th major victory in the US PGA Championship at Southern Hills.
The 31-year-old ended his campaign two weeks ago with a memorable double, clinching the Tour Championship by eight shots and inaugural FedExCup honours to earn a $10 million bonus.
It was his 61st PGA Tour title and fourth in five starts.
Woods, who led the money list with $10,867,052 at the end of the regular season, first won the award in 1997.
He followed up in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006.
Mark O'Meara earned the accolade in 1998 and Vijay Singh in 2004.
WORLD CUP:After 10 years of having Padraig Harrington and Paul McGinley flying the flag, Irish hopes in the World Cup rest this week with players ranked 583rd and 622nd in the world.
Michael Hoey and Gareth Maybin have flown to Aruba in the Caribbean for the 72-hole qualifying tournament which starts today after British Open champion Harrington's decision not to play in the event proper in China in November dropped Ireland off the list of exempt nations.
With McGinley, Graeme McDowell and others turning down the qualifier, former British Amateur champion Hoey, who lost his European Tour card last season, and Maybin, who lies 15th on the Hooters mini-tour in America, were offered the chance.
They are among 19 countries competing for five spots. The obvious favourites are Italy, represented by European Tour winner Francesco Molinari and his brother Edoardo, who won the US Amateur title two years ago.
Meanwhile, Dutch pair Robert-Jan Derksen and Maarten Lafeber, both tour winners, are among the 20 nations competing for five spots in the other qualifier in Malaysia.
South American qualifying teams: Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rica, Serbia, Venezuela.
Asian qualifying teams: Chinese Taipei, Ghana, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Swaziland, Thailand, Uganda.
WOMEN'S TOUR:England's Laura Davies is looking to erase one of the lowest points of her career last week by bouncing back to form at the Women's Open in Austria this week.
The 43-year-old missed her first cut in a purely Ladies European Tour event in more than two decades at last week's Scottish Open after a second-round 82.
"Last week was a weird week," said Davies, a 35-time LET winner and England's most successful female golfer. "It was the first cut I missed on the Ladies European Tour for 21 years (it was not a co-sanctioned event). Obviously that's a bit of a low point.
"But it's just one tournament, you have got to forget about that and get on with it."
Davies' fellow Solheim Cup team-mates Bettina Hauert, the money list leader, and Sophie Gustafson, the defending champion in Austria, Trish Johnson, Iben Tinning and Wales' Becky Brewerton are also in the field.
