GWAA sides with McDowell for POY

The Golf Writers Association of America, of which I'm a member, has selected Graeme McDowell, Yani Tseng and Bernhard Langer the 2010 Players of the Year on their respective tours. I agree with all of them, considering those were my three selections on ballots that included three choices for each honor.
It is the first GWAA POY award for all three players and they will be honored at the GWAA’s annual awards dinner April 6 in Augusta, Ga.
In the closest race, McDowell received 43 percent of the votes (87 votes) for Male POY to 32 percent for Jim Furyk (61) and 25 percent for Martin Kaymer (51). Tseng received 69 percent of the vote (137 votes) for Female POY to 16 percent for Cristie Kerr (32) and Ai Miyazato had 15 percent (31). Langer received 94 percent of the vote (187 votes) for Senior POY to six percent (13) for Fred Couples.
McDowell became the first European to win the U.S. Open in 40 years and his win at Pebble Beach was one of four for the Northern Irishman. He won the decisive match for Europe at the Ryder Cup and his fourth win was a come-from-behind playoff win over Tiger Woods at the Chevron World Challenge. McDowell also won the Golf Writers Trophy (a vote of the Association of Golf Writers) and shared European Tour POY honors with Kaymer. He is the second Irishman to win POY in the last three years. Padraig Harrington won the honor in 2008.
Tseng won two LPGA majors – the Kraft Nabisco Championship and Women's British Open – in her three-win season. She had eight top-10 finishes, finished fourth on the money list and was the LPGA’s Rolex Player of the Year.
Langer won back-to-back majors -- Senior Open at Carnoustie and U.S. Senior Open at Sahalee – and won five times on the Champions Tour. He led the money list, captured the season-long Charles Schwab Cup and won his third consecutive Champions Tour POY honor.