For the third consecutive time and for the ninth time in his 11 years as a professional player, Tiger Woods was without a doubt the winner of the PGA Tour - nothing unpredictable about that. But this year’s PGA came to an unexpected outcome for Steve Stricker, who won the PGA Tour’s Comeback Player of the Year award on Tuesday for the second successive season.

The result, which took the Wisconsin 40-year-old player by surprise, was obtained through the balloting of his other competitors, which includes players like Brian Bateman and Rocco Mediate. “It is an honor to win this for the second straight year. I don’t know what I did, but it is an honor to be voted by your peers.

Still confused by this second win, Stricker added: “But I don’t know if the award has the correct name or not. I mean, I won this last year and I don’t know what I did to deserve it again this year. I thought you would have to stink at golf for a while, which I did for last year,” referring to the fact that came up from being the 162nd in 2005 to finishing 34th last year.

Finishing fourth this season, Steve Stricker’s earnings have been estimated around $4.6 million. Not even close to those of Woods, but Stricker doesn’t think of himself as one of the “elites” of this sport.

“I was thinking about what I would have to do to win this three years in a row. I don’t know if I did that if I’d be out of this ballot and maybe be on the Player of the Year ballot, which would be nice,” Stricker said to the reporters.

While Sticker is planning his next year’s win of the PGA Tour’s Comeback of the Year Award, Tiger Woods remains undefeated on the PGA Tour, and still doesn’t seem to have any serious challenger to his title.