NO-SHOW OF THE YEAR
Tiger Woods
12 months after he went from Thanksgiving Turkey to Public Goat #1, it's hard to think that Tiger will ever, ever want to remember 2010. 
Putting the reasons for his self-inflicted sabbatical aside, he looked completely out of sorts all year long with his swing, his rhythm and critically, his putting. In a column earlier this year, I was confident in predicting that Tiger would return to the fold as dominant as ever. Bad call. By September, the European players were openly hoping to be drawn against him in Ryder Cup singles. Also a bad call as it turned out, but there is no escaping that for the first time in his career, Tiger will go through a calendar year not just not winning a tournament but not even coming close.
Runner up awards – made slightly bitterly based on the damage to Archie’s wallet this summer – go to Westwood and Casey, for not showing up in the last round of the Open Championship at St Andrews. Without taking anything away from a beautifully controlled performance from Champion Golfer Louis Oosthuizen, Mssrs Westwood and Casey should have been all over his rear-view mirror on that Sunday. Pressure is by far the hardest element of any Major and yet young Louis was allowed to play steady and conservative golf all the way home. A bit of peer pressure would have livened up Sunday afternoon nicely which brings us neatly to...
Rahil Gangjee is a name that may not resonate beyond the golfing fraternity but after his win at the Panasonic Open Golf Championship in Japan, he will be someone to remember for every occasion...
