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When we posted our choices for Golf Magazine’s Player of the Year on Golf Magazine’s Facebook poll, we thought it would be the most contested vote since Jennifer Hudson got booted from “American Idol.” Luke Donald was Mr. Consistency; Keegan Bradley had the ultimate breakout year; Rory McIlroy made big statements on the biggest stages; and Yani Tseng notched a Tiger-like 11 wins.

Instead, our horserace turned into a rout, with Yani Tseng getting more than 95 percent of the online vote. Congratulations, Yani. We can’t wait to see what you’ll do in 2012.

VOTES (through noon Eastern time, Monday Oct. 31)

1. Yani Tseng: 95.7 percent (5,136 votes)

2. Luke Donald: 2.9 percent (155 votes)

3. Rory McIlroy: 1 percent (50 votes)

4. Keegan Bradley: 0.4 percent (25 votes)

Here are some of your comments:

James Wu Yani Tseng: Long fairway and nice character golfer. I wish you have many years to run on top of LPGA.

Luke Chou Yani Tseng: She is Queen and there is no King.

Bill Hogan Yani Tseng: There is no contest … Yani Tseng is the player of the year by a longshot.

Eduardo B. Cu Unjieng Luke Donald: Golf has gone global. (Pause to let this sink in for US readers.) Luke's money title for the European and US tours makes him world player of the year hands down!

Pierluigi Fracasso Rory McIlroy: One major and "half"…no doubt!

John Ivanitz Keegan Bradley: Good luck Keegan and stop whining Luke!

Xiaoming Chen Yani Tseng: Not Tiger for sure.

Golf Magazine will announce its 2011 Player of the Year on Golf.com on Nov. 1.

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Top-ranked Yani Tseng won the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open on Sunday for her 11th worldwide victory of year, closing with a 6-under 6 to beat Sweden’s Pernilla Lindberg by seven strokes.

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Greg Norman created a brouhaha when he criticized Fred Couples for selecting Tiger Woods as a captain’s pick for the upcoming Presidents Cup. Steve Stricker, though, is defending both his captain and teammate. Speaking with Gary D’Amato of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Stricker said:

"I’m for it. I think it’s a good thing. I don’t know why Greg said what he did. He did basically the same thing with Adam Scott a couple years ago when Adam wasn’t playing well. It kind of turned Adam's game around. So I don’t know where that came from.”

The Stricker-Woods team has had great success at both the 2009 Presidents Cup and the 2010 Ryder Cup, going 4-0 and 2-1, respectively, in the team portions of the events. According to Stricker, he has been in touch with Tiger and is confident that his former partner will silence many of the critics once he hits the course in Australia.

"I talk to Tiger through texting every now and then. He’s really excited. We’re looking forward to it. I think he’ll be ready, too. He’ll find a way to get it done. When you play him one on one, he’ll find a way. Just like at the Ryder Cup last year. He trounced the guy he was playing. He loves match play."

Yani Tseng says she would like to play a PGA Tour event

Yani Tseng has emerged as the most dominant force in golf this season, picking up her 11th victory of the year at the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open. Speaking with the Chinese media, Tseng expressed interest in testing her skills out on the PGA Tour in the future:

“If an opportunity presents itself, I would like to play in a PGA tournament to learn more from male golfers. I wouldn’t care about the results because I’d just want to enjoy the feeling of playing with guys and learning from them to further improve my skills.” 

Hog wild 

A gang of wild boars have inhabited the Suntree Country Club in Melbourne, Fla., tearing up the golf course in the process. Local news station WFTV has the story: 

The hogs are tearing up the grass along a number of holes on the golf course at the Suntree Country Club near North Wickham Road. 

Residents say they spotted one boar that appeared to be 300 lbs. with two and a half inch cutters, which are like small tusks. 

"They are razor sharp," said wildlife trapper James Dean, about the boars.  "They are coming into the backyards on the golf courses and rutting up the ground, and I mean tearing it up with their snout to get grubworms, insects, snakes. They just get down with their tusks and keep going and going and going.”

One resident of the golf course community described the mess he found in his back yard as a “two-foot deep, eight foot by eight foot, swimming pool.”

Trappers have already caught 17 wild boars but believe there to be at least six more of the hogs in the area. Sounds like a job for Bagdad, Fla., native Boo Weekley.

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Rory McIlroy won the Shanghai Masters for his first title since the U.S. Open. What kind of statement did McIlroy make with his fourth career victory? Our panel debates this, Sergio Garcia’s repeat wins in Europe, the PGA Tour’s player of the year ballot controversy and more.

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The Yani Tseng World Domination Tour just keeps on rolling.

The top-ranked player in the world won the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open in China on Sunday for her 11th worldwide victory of 2011.

Tseng began the final round of the Ladies European Tour event with a three-shot lead and fired a 66 to coast to a seven-stroke victory over Sweden’s Pernilla Lindberg.

"It's very exciting for me today," Tseng said. "I played so consistently. I was really patient and made lots of good putts to save par, so I am proud of myself to finish six under on Sunday and with no bogeys."

It was pro career title No. 30 for the 22-year-old Tseng, and her third win in her last four events.

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Two-time heart transplant recipient Erik Compton earned his PGA Tour card Sunday when he finished in the top 25 on the Nationwide Tour money list.

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