World No. 1 female golfer Yani Tseng was selected by a landslide by Golf Magazine readers in an online Facebook poll on Monday as the player of the year.
The Taiwanese golf star garnered 5,136 votes, or 95.7 percent of the total poll.
Luke Donald of England, the current world No. 1 male golfer, trailed Tseng with a mere 155 votes.
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“There is no contest ... Yani Tseng is the player of the year by a long shot,” one online fan said.
Another was quoted by the magazine as saying: “She is [the] queen and there is no king.”
Out of the four nominees for Golf Magazine’s Player of the Year award, Tseng was the only woman. The other three were Donald, Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland and Keegan Bradley of the US.
McIlroy, who is ranked world No. 3, broke the US Open Championship record with 16-under-par over the four-day tournament, while Bradley had the biggest breakthrough of this year by winning this year’s PGA Championship.
The magazine had already made its pick and was scheduled to announce the winner of its first Player of the Year award on the Web site the following day.
Tseng has bagged a total of 11 world titles this year, seven of which are LPGA championships, and is the youngest golfer, male or female, to hold five major LPGA championship titles. She also became the world’s second female golfer in history to win the British Open twice consecutively.
The newest LPGA statistics show Tseng with 18.40 average points, just 0.07 points short of Swedish golf queen Annika Sorenstam’s record of 18.47. Sorenstam holds the LPGA record for the most average points earned.
Tseng’s score puts her a fair distance ahead of her competitors. World No. 2 Suzann Pettersen of Norway averaged 10.93. Tseng has been in the top spot for 38 consecutive weeks.
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