Shell Houston Open, ANA Inspiration (MAJOR), Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic

Player of the Week
Dustin Johnson

Johnson at 2012 Open Championship
Personal information
Full name	Dustin Hunter Johnson
Nickname	DJ
Born	June 22, 1984 (age 32) Columbia, South Carolina
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg; 14 st)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Children	1
Career
College	Coastal Carolina University
Turned professional	2007
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	17
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	15
Other	2
Best results in major championships (wins: 1)
Masters Tournament	T4: 2016
U.S. Open	Won: 2016
The Open Championship	T2: 2011
PGA Championship	T5: 2010
Achievements and awards
PGA Player of the Year	2016
PGA Tour Player of the Year	2016
PGA Tour leading money winner	2016
Vardon Trophy	2016
Byron Nelson Award	2016

Dustin Hunter Johnson (born June 22, 1984) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is the current World Number 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking; having reached that position with his win at the 2017 Genesis Open.^[1] He won the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club with a 4-under-par score of 276 for his first major championship. He had previously finished in a tie for second at both the 2011 Open Championship and the 2015 U.S. Open. He also has five World Golf Championships victories, with only Tiger Woods having won more, and he is the first player to win each of the four World Golf Championship events. He is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour, having been ranked in the top five annually from 2008 and leading in 2015.^[2]

WGC Match Play, Chitimacha Louisiana Open, Kia Classic, Puerto Rico Open

Player of the Week - Blayne Barber

Personal information
Born	December 25, 1989 (age 27) Tallahassee, Florida
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st)
Nationality	United States
Career
College	University of Central Florida Auburn University
Turned professional	2012
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Former tour(s)	Web.com Tour
Professional wins	1
Number of wins by tour
Web.com Tour	1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	CUT: 2015
The Open Championship	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP

Barber turned professional in 2012. He played on the Web.com Tour through 2014. He picked up his first win in 2014 at the South Georgia Classic.^[3] He finished 16th in the Web.com Tour Finals to earn his PGA Tour card for the 2014–15 season.
At the 2012 PGA Tour qualifying school, Barber disqualified himself from the tournament for signing an incorrect scorecard.^[4]
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Arnold Palmer Invitational, Tucson Conquistadores Classic, Bank of Hope Founders Cup

Player of the Week - Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer

— Golfer —
Palmer in September 2009
Personal information
Full name	Arnold Daniel Palmer
Nickname	The King
Born	September 10, 1929 Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Died	September 25, 2016 (aged 87) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight	185 lb (84 kg)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Latrobe, Pennsylvania Orlando, Florida
Spouse	Winifred Walzer Palmer (1934–99) (m. 1954–99, her death) Kathleen Gawthrop (m. 2005–16, his death)
Children	2 daughters
Career
College	Wake Forest College
Turned professional	1954
Retired	2006
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour Senior PGA Tour
Professional wins	95
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	62 (5th all time)
European Tour	2
PGA Tour of Australasia	2
PGA Tour Champions	10
Best results in major championships (wins: 7)
Masters Tournament	Won: 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964
U.S. Open	Won: 1960
The Open Championship	Won: 1961, 1962
PGA Championship	T2: 1964, 1968, 1970
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame	1974 (member page)
PGA Tour leading money winner	1958, 1960, 1962, 1963
PGA Player of the Year	1960, 1962
Vardon Trophy	1961, 1962, 1964, 1967
Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year	1960
Bob Jones Award	1971
Old Tom Morris Award	1983
PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award	1998
Payne Stewart Award	2000
Presidential Medal of Freedom	2004
Congressional Gold Medal	2009

Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history. Dating back to 1955, he won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and the circuit now known as PGA Tour Champions. Nicknamed The King, he was one of golf's most popular stars and its most important trailblazer, the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s.
Palmer's social impact on behalf of golf was perhaps unrivaled among fellow professionals; his humble background and plain-spoken popularity helped change the perception of golf as an elite, upper-class pastime to a more populist sport accessible to middle and working classes.^[1] Palmer was part of "The Big Three" in golf during the 1960s, along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, who are widely credited with popularizing and commercializing the sport around the world.
In a career that spanned more than six decades, he won 62 PGA Tour titles from 1955 to 1973, placing him at that time behind only Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, and still fifth on the Tour's all-time victory list. He collected seven major titles in a six-plus-year domination, from the 1958 Masters to the 1964 Masters. He also won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, and in 1974 was one of the 13 original inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame.^[2]

Valspar Championship and Hero Indian Open

Player of the Week - Rod Spittle

Rod Spittle (born 18 July 1955) is a Canadian professional golfer. Spittle was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He played college golf at Ohio State University where his teammates included John Cook and Joey Sindelar. He won the Canadian Amateur in 1977 and 1978. After graduating in 1978, with a degree in Business Administration, he did not turn professional in golf, instead choosing to sell insurance, which he did for 25 years.  He moved to Ohio, and played amateur golf at a high standard during this period. Spittle turned professional in 2004, shortly before turning 50. He began playing on the Champions Tour in 2005. His best finish in his first four years was a T-2 at the 2007 Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn. He did not play the Champions Tour at all in 2009.  In 2010, he Monday-qualified into the AT&T Championship, and won the event in a one-hole sudden-death playoff over Jeff Sluman.

Amateur wins
1977 Canadian Amateur
1978 Canadian Amateur
2000 Ohio Mid-Amateur
2001 Ohio Mid-Amateur
2003 Ohio Mid-Amateur

Professional wins
Champions Tour wins
2010 AT&T Championship