INQUIRER Sports

PONTE VEDRA BEACH ? Tiger Woods was named the PGA Tour player of the year for the tenth time in 13 years on Friday.

The award is voted on by the players but the PGA declined to release the details of the vote which took place over the past four weeks.

Woods, who was coming off knee surgery at the beginning of the year, announced last week he was taking an indefinite leave of absence from the sport. Woods said he was stepping away to fix his marriage after admitting to infidelities.

This is the eighth time that Woods has swept all the major PGA Tour awards.

He won the Byron Nelson Award for the lowest adjusted scoring average, Arnold Palmer Award for the money title and Jack Nicklaus Award for player of the year.

Woods won a half dozen tournaments last year, including the FedEx Cup and its $10 million bonus. He captured the earnings title and had the lowest scoring average for the ninth time in his career.

This is just the second time that Woods was voted player of the year in a season where he did not win a major.

Aussie Marc Leishman was voted PGA Tour rookie of the year. He is the first since Charles Howell eight years ago to win the award without winning a tournament.