JT Wins Player of the Year - How Bogus....

[Bushwood Country Club]

Per CBS Sports:

Justin Thomas is your Player of the Year. Well, one of them anyway. On Tuesday, Thomas was named the PGA Player of the Year ahead of Jon Rahm. It's the second time Thomas has won this award, which is not voted on but rather tallied up using a system that includes points for wins, money list position and scoring average.

Dustin Johnson, who matched Thomas with three PGA Tour wins last season, finished fifth.

1. Justin Thomas -- 66 points 
2. Jon Rahm -- 56
3. Collin Morikawa -- 54 
4. Webb Simpson -- 52
5. Dustin Johnson -- 42

Johnson finished a surprising fifth here after going T2 at the PGA Championship and winning two of the last three events of the season. 

 

WHAT A LOAD OF HORSES*&^......  

[cardoustie]

Ridiculous

[J_Tizzle]

I'd like to see the formula for sure.  DJ seemed like a slam dunk

[Soloman1]

Is that you, Dustin?

[Christosterone]

2020 continues to make no sense

 

-chris

[widow-maker]

Thomas has had a great season, but I too don't understand DJ being 24 pts behind him.  Thomas had a more level season, whereas DJ was up and down, but that's a pretty wide gap. 

[randywildman]

I read this on yahoo. It's a point system so it's weird anyways. Thomas got 20 points in the system for being, I guess the regular season money list is worth a lot. 16 points for being 3rd for scoring average. They gave the winning points for last weekend to Xander because he had the lowest score for 72 holes, totally bunk, but ok.

 

DJ win win the players vote anyways 

[EMA1]

Baffled me as well, but randomly met JT in Vegas earlier this year so I'm not upset about it.

[grm24]

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/justin-thomas-wins-2020-pga-of-america-player-of-the-year-award-dustin-johnson-finishes-fifth

 

The formula that the PGA of America uses gives players points for PGA Tour wins (10 for each, 30 for a major), where they finished on the money list and where they ranked in the overall scoring (first place gets you 20, second gets 18, third 16, etc.). Interestingly, the PGA of America did not credit Johnson for his Tour Championship title (instead giving the 10 points to Xander Schauffele, who shot the lowest score for four rounds at East Lake but finished tied for second when accounting for the pre-tournament stroke adjustment). Even if you added another 10 points to DJ’s overall total, he still wouldn’t have passed Thomas for the title.

 

 

[grm24]

1 hour ago, widow-maker said:

Thomas has had a great season, but I too don't understand DJ being 24 pts behind him.  Thomas had a more level season, whereas DJ was up and down, but that's a pretty wide gap. 

 

Read on how the points were awarded. 

[caniac6]

I believe this is PGA of America POY, not PGA Tour POY.

[ATLgopher]

9 minutes ago, caniac6 said:

I believe this is PGA of America POY, not PGA Tour POY.

the latter is a player vote

[bscinstnct]

Money talks

 

JT by a good margin ; )

 

 

[gentles]

Interesting to see Morikawa so low in scoring average - he finished 20th in the stat despite having that made cut streak going earlier this year and having a couple wins.

 

Recency bias at play here, JT had a much more consistent season throughout the year rather than just the last 6 weeks or so. 

[JDCON]

Almost as silly as the whole FedEx Cup.

[dmeeksDC]

1 hour ago, caniac6 said:

I believe this is PGA of America POY, not PGA Tour POY.

Yeah, this is not the Tour award and is based on a formula that no one cares about. Basically the organization of club pros announcing their player of the year. No way Dustin Johnson is getting beat by JT for the PGA Tour Player of the Year. 

[SkiSchoolPro]

I like JT and he had a very good year, but DJ will rightfully get the players' vote.

 

FWIW, there were about 190 players total competing in JT's 3 wins, while ~280 competed in DJ's 2 wins. JT had 10 top 10s in 18 events while DJ had 7 in 14 events.

 

Under the current format, there is no longer official $ for the Tour Championship...Counting the Fed Ex $, DJ is about $9M ahead of JT for the season and far outplayed JT in the only major and 3 playoff events.

 

Edited September 9, 2020 by SkiSchoolPro

[KennyP]

Meaningless award anyway.

[Hawkeye77]

More wins and more money - so what's the beef here, lol?

 

 

[grm24]

2 hours ago, Hawkeye77 said:

More wins and more money - so what's the beef here, lol?

 

 

Recency bias.

[bladehunter]

Why doesn’t the Fedex cup money count toward the season winnings ?  

[mahonie]

‘Player of the Year award brought to you by Titleist’...

 

...sorry wrong marketing campaign.

[SkiSchoolPro]

4 hours ago, bladehunter said:

Why doesn’t the Fedex cup money count toward the season winnings ?  

When there was separate Tour Championship event (prior to the handicap system the past few years), the tournament purse did count towards official  season and career winnings, but the Fed Ex bonus $ didn't.

 

I believe there were a few reasons for this:

1. The top prize was originally paid out over a number of years.

2. Career Earnings list could get very skewed...this is used for Champions Tour eligibility as well as a one time regular tour exemption for top 50 & 25.