Ireland’s Padraig Harrington has won the 2008 PGA Tour Player of the Year award, as voted on by his peers. He is the first European player to do so since the award was established in 1990. Harrington won back-to-back majors in 2008, the British Open and PGA Championship, and was the only player to accomplish such a feat other than Tiger Woods in the last twenty years. Dating back to the British Open in 2007, Harrington has won three of the last six majors staged. Harrington beat out such notables as Woods, who won the U.S. Open and despite sitting ...

The PGA of America just named Corey Pavin, 49, who has played in the Ryder Cup Matches three times, to serve as captain of the 2010 U.S. Ryder Cup Team. Pavin and his 12-member team will travel to Celtic Manor in Wales Sept. 28 to Oct. 3, 2010, to defend the Ryder Cup, which the Americans - led by Captain Paul Azinger - won in September at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. Pavin, winner of the the 1995 U.S. Open, played in the Ryder Cup Matches in 1991, ‘93 and ‘95. In naming Pavin, the PGA ended speculation it would call ...