Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Tiger wins world ranking award
again
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods received
the Mark H. McCormack Award on Wednesday for spending the most
time last year at No. 1 in the world ranking — all 52 weeks.
Woods, who has been ranked No. 1 since winning
the 1999 PGA Championship, has won the award every year since
it was created in 1998. He is so entrenched at No. 1 that he is
virtually guaranteed of winning it again after this season.
The award has become a formality, and Woods
had to search for words when he accepted the honor at the Bay
Hill Invitational.
“Well, I guess it just means that I've
had a couple of lucky breaks and made a couple of putts here and
there,” he said, trying to contain laughter.
“To be able to be ranked No. 1 in the
world for a substantial time just goes to show you that you need
to be consistent,” he said. “I've worked very hard on
my game to get to the point where I am now.”
Woods is coming off a 2000 season in which
he won nine of the 20 tournaments he played on the PGA Tour, including
the final three major championships.
The award is named after McCormack, the
chairman of International Management Group who developed the concept
for a world ranking in 1986.
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