The Best Male Golfer
ESPY Award
An ESPY Award (short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award) is an accolade currently presented by the American broadcast television network ABC, and previously ESPN (as of the 2017 ESPY Awards the latter still airs them in the for ...
has been presented annually in two different periods to the
professional
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male
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A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to ...
golf
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er adjudged to be the best in a given
calendar year. It was originally presented between
1993
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and
2004, but was, along with the parallel
Best Female Golfer ESPY Award The Best Female Golfer ESPY Award has been presented annually in two different periods to the professional female golfer adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. It was originally presented between 1993 and 2004, but was, along with the ...
, subsumed in
2005 by the
Best Golfer ESPY Award. The Best Male and Female Golfer Awards returned to the ESPY list in
2009.
Between 1993 and
2004, the award voting panel comprised variously
fans
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;
sportswriter
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s and
broadcasters
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, sports
executives, and retired
sportsperson
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s, termed collectively ''experts''; and
ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the
Internet
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from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.
Through the
2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in July and reflect performance from the June previous. Because of the
rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in
2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February
2001 and June 2002. The award wasn't awarded in
2020
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due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
List of winners
See also
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List of golf awards
This is a list of golf awards.
PGA Tour
PGA Tour Champions
European Tour
United States Golf Association
* Bob Jones Award
* Joe Dey Award
*Herbert Warren Wind Book Award
*Green Section Award
LPGA Tour
:''See: LPGA#LPGA Tour awards''
Inte ...
*
Best Female Golfer ESPY Award The Best Female Golfer ESPY Award has been presented annually in two different periods to the professional female golfer adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. It was originally presented between 1993 and 2004, but was, along with the ...
*
PGA Player of the Year Award
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PGA Tour Player of the Year Award
*
Byron Nelson Award
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Vardon Trophy
The Vardon Trophy is awarded by the PGA of America to the PGA Tour's leader in scoring average. When the award was first given in 1937, it was awarded on the basis of a points system. No award was given from 1942–1946 due to World War II. In ...
References
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Espy award
An ESPY Award (short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award) is an accolade currently presented by the American broadcast television network ABC, and previously ESPN (as of the 2017 ESPY Awards the latter still airs them in the for ...
Awards established in 1993
Awards disestablished in 2004
Awards established in 2009