Woods named top athlete of decade 伍兹赢得 2000~2009 最佳运动员 Associated Press http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=4747530 不受上个月底爆发的性丑闻影响，伍兹仍获美联社票选为过去十年的最佳运动员。 因为十年间的伟大表现不应被几周的情色丑闻所掩盖！ 1. 伍兹在142选票中，获得56票，名列第一。 2. 抗癌斗士 Lance Armstrong ，33票居次。 3. 大满贯费天王 Roger Federer，25票第三。 4. 飞鱼 Michael Phelps，13票第四。 5. 新英格兰爱国者队四分卫 Tom Brady，6票第五。 得奖原因：很少有运动员能像伍兹这麽剧烈地改变他们的运动项目，他的参赛，使 PGA赛事收视率大大提升，也让巡回赛奖金倍增。与他缺席的赛事的低收视率形成强 烈对比！ 过去十年，伍兹几乎支配了PGA赛事，赢得56次PGA锦标赛冠军，夺冠率30%， 世界排名也同时名列第一！只有32周的时间例外，当时他正在修正它的挥杆动作。 最重要的是，伍兹总能在大赛(Majors)时大放异彩有优秀表现。其中有几场经典赛事 更以极大的杆数差距拿到奖盃！ 14次的大赛冠军，有12次是在这十年中拿下，同时亚军也有六次。距离金熊尼克劳斯 的18冠世界纪录只差四个！ Even after a shocking sex scandal that tarnished Tiger Woods, it was tough to ignore what he achieved on the golf course. He won 64 times around the world, including 12 majors, and hoisted a trophy on every continent golf is played. He lost only one time with the lead going into the final round. His 56 PGA Tour victories in one incomparable decade were more than anyone except four of golf's greatest players won in their careers. Woods was selected Wednesday as the Athlete of the Decade by members of The Associated Press in a vote that was more about 10 years of performance than nearly three weeks of salacious headlines. Just like so many of his victories, it wasn't much of a contest. Woods received 56 of the 142 votes cast by AP member editors since last month. More than half of the ballots were returned after the Nov. 27 car accident outside his Florida home that set off sensational tales of infidelity. Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor who won the Tour de France six times this decade, finished second with 33 votes. He was followed by Roger Federer, who won more Grand Slam singles titles than any other man, with 25 votes. Record-setting Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps came in fourth with 13 votes, followed by New England quarterback Tom Brady (6) and sprinter Usain Bolt (4). Five other athletes received one vote apiece. Woods, who has not been seen since the accident and has issued only three statements on his Web site, was not made available to comment about the award. Few other athletes have changed their sport quite like Woods. His influence has been so powerful that TV ratings spiked whenever he played, even more when he has been in contention. Prize money has quadrupled since he joined the PGA Tour because of his broad appeal. A new image emerged quickly in the days following his middle-of-the-night accident, when he ran his SUV over a fire hydrant and into a tree. He became the butt of late-night TV jokes, eventually confessed that he "let my family down" with "transgressions" and lost a major sponsorship from Accenture. Even so, AP members found his work on the golf course over the last 10 years without much of a blemish. Woods took an early lead in balloting, and continued to receive roughly the same percentage of votes throughout the process. "Despite the tsunami of negative publicity that will likely tarnish his image, there's no denying that Woods' on-the-course accomplishments set a new standard of dominance within his sport while making golf more accessible to the masses," wrote Stu Whitney, sports editor of the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader. "The only proof needed are the television ratings when Tiger plays in a golf tournament, compared to those events when others have to carry the load." Woods tumbled from the pinnacle of his sport in just about three weeks. The 10 years that preceded that fall, however, represented perhaps the greatest decade in golf history. He won the career Grand Slam three times over, including one U.S. Open by a record 15 shots at Pebble Beach and another U.S. Open on a mangled leg in a playoff at Torrey Pines. He twice won the British Open at St. Andrews, the home of golf, by a combined 13 shots. Woods won 56 times on the PGA Tour this decade, a rate of 30 percent that is unprecedented in golf. Nine of those victories were by at least eight shots. He was No. 1 in the world ranking for all but 32 weeks in the decade, that when he was revamping his swing. He did his best work in the biggest events. Along with his 12 majors this decade -- he has 14 overall, four short of the record held by Jack Nicklaus -- Woods was runner-up in six other majors. He won 14 times out of 27 appearances in the World Golf Championships. Woods finished the decade with $81,547,410 in earnings from his PGA Tour events, an average of $482,529 per tournament. --

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