The Best Male Golfer ESPY Award has been presented annually in two different periods to the professional male golfer adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. It was originally presented between 1993 and 2004, but was, along with the parallel Best Female Golfer ESPY Award, subsumed in 2005 by the Best Golfer ESPY Award. The Best Male and Female Golfer Awards returned to the ESPY list in 2009.
Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.
Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in July and reflect performance from the June previous. Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002. The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
List of winners YearGolferNation of citizenship1993Fred Couples1994Nick Price1995Nick Price (2)1996Corey Pavin1997Tom Lehman1998Tiger Woods1999Mark O'Meara2000Tiger Woods (2)2001Tiger Woods (3)2002Tiger Woods (4)2003Tiger Woods (5)2004Phil Mickelson2009Tiger Woods (6)2010Phil Mickelson (2)2011Rory McIlroy()2012Bubba Watson2013Tiger Woods (7)2014Bubba Watson (2)2015Jordan Spieth2016Jordan Spieth (2)2017Sergio García2018Jordan Spieth (3)2019Brooks Koepka2020Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic2021Phil Mickelson (3)2022Justin Thomas
See also List of golf awards Best Female Golfer ESPY Award PGA Player of the Year Award PGA Tour Player of the Year Award Byron Nelson Award Vardon Trophy
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