Woods wins ninth consecutive Mark H. McCormack Award  ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Governing Board of the Official World Golf Ranking announced Wednesday that Tiger Woods is the recipient of the 2006 Mark H. McCormack Award. Woods has won every year since the award was started in 1998. The award is presented annually to the player who holds the No. 1 position on the Official World Golf Ranking for the greatest number of weeks in each calendar year. Woods held the top position on the Official World Golf Ranking for 52 consecutive weeks last year, maintaining his No. 1 ranking which started his latest run after the 2005 Booz Allen Classic. "Tiger provided us with another exciting year of watching him battle to be the best" said PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem. "We congratulate him on another great season and on the accomplishment of continuing to dominate as the top-ranked player in the world." Overall, Tiger has held the No. 1 ranking 434 weeks.:
The award was created in 1998 by the Governing Board to honor Mark H. McCormack for the significant role he played in founding a world ranking system for professional golf. McCormack founded IMG, a premier worldwide sports and lifestyle management and marketing firm in the early 1960's. He passed away May 16, 2003. The concept for a world ranking for men's professional golf began with McCormack in 1986. During the 1986 Masters Tournament, McCormack launched the Sony Ranking, which was sanctioned by the Championship Committee of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. In July 1997, the five major international golf tours joined representatives from the four major championships, who had been members of the Governing Board since 1987. This marked the first time that the leaders of all the world's major golf organizations had joined together to serve in a governing capacity. |
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