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List of golf awards

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This is a list of golf awards.

PGA Tour

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Award Year
founded
Notes
PGA Player of the Year 1948 Selected using a points system with marks awarded for wins, money list position and scoring average.
PGA Tour Player of the Year 1990 Selected by the tour players by ballot. Also known as the Jack Nicklaus Trophy.
Rookie of the Year 1990 Players who are eligible are in their first season of PGA Tour membership.
Vardon Trophy 1937 Awarded (by the PGA of America) to leader in adjusted scoring average with a minimum of 60 rounds played.
Byron Nelson Award 1980 Awarded (by the PGA Tour) to leader in adjusted scoring average with a minimum of 50 rounds played.
Arnold Palmer Award 1981 Given to the player with the most money earned in a season.
Payne Stewart Award 2000 Given to the player whose "values align with the character, charity and sportsmanship that Stewart showed".
Comeback Player of the Year 1991 Players vote for the honoree.

PGA Tour Champions

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Award Year
founded
Notes
Jack Nicklaus Trophy 1990 Player of the Year, determined by vote of the players at season's end.
Arnold Palmer Award 1980 Given to the player with the most money earned in a season.
Charles Schwab Cup 2001 Points are earned for thousands of dollars earned in top-ten finishes at tournaments.
Rookie of the Year 1990 Players vote for the honoree.
Comeback Player of the Year 1991 Players vote for the honoree.
Byron Nelson Award 1980 Given to the golfer with the lowest scoring average of the season.

European Tour

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Award Year
founded
Notes
Harry Vardon Trophy 1937 Awarded to the leader of the Race to Dubai, previously known as the Order of Merit. This has largely been based on prize money since 1980, but has previously used a points system and stroke average at different times.
Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year 1960 Selected by a panel comprising the PGA European Tour, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.Andrews, and the Association of Golf Writers.
Seve Ballesteros Award 2008 Selected by a ballot of tour members. Founded as the European Tour's Players' Player of the Year Award, and renamed in honour of Ballesteros in 2017.

United States Golf Association

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LPGA Tour

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See: LPGA#LPGA Tour awards

Intercollegiate golf

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See also

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