PGA Tour ballots go out without any nominees for Comeback Player

 The PGA Tour awards ballot are now in the mail, though they might be shorter than previous years. Tour officials have decided not to submit any candidates as comeback player of the year.

The Players Advisory Council is responsible for suggesting names on the awards ballot. However, there’s an exception with the comeback player nominees decided by PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem and the four players on the tour policy board.

“We just thought it originally was an award that focused on a player who had an unusual injury, an injury that was career-threatening and he comes back from it,” Finchem said in Shanghai. “And that morphed into having three or four players on the ballot that had some minor situations occur. We were asking players to decide who should be the bigger comeback.”

Finchem said a few years ago, the PAC and the policy board decided to leave the award up to him and his staff.

It will be the second time in three years there is no comeback player of the year. Stuart Appleby won the award a year ago, and the thought was he’d came back from poor play. Steve Stricker won the comeback award two years in a row.