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The PGA Tour season ended Sunday -- 45 weeks and 46 tournaments after it began the first week of January.
There were 39 different winners. Ninety players earned more than $1 million each. Jim Furyk topped the tour in wins -- three -- including the Tour Championship. Matt Kuchar, with only one victory but 11 top 10s, claimed the money title with $4,910,477.
Europe beat the U.S. to win the Ryder Cup. Tiger Woods went oh-for-2010, the first winless season of his pro career. Vijay Singh, ranked among the world's top 20 players since 1997, finished this year 86th.
England's Lee Westwood, despite only one 2010 win worldwide and still without a major championship, took over the world No. 1 ranking, bumping Tiger from top the spot after 281 consecutive weeks.
Matt Every was suspended for three months of the season after a marijuana possession arrest in his hotel room in Silvis, Ill., while at the John Deere.
John Daly wasn't arrested.
Dustin Johnson missed a chance to win the PGA Championship because of a two-stroke penalty incurred on the 72nd hole for grounding his club in a bunker that he didn't know was a bunker -- because he didn't bother to read the local rules sheet.
Fred Couples turned 50 and went to the Champions Tour.
Paul Goydos (first round of the John Deere) and Stuart Appleby (final round, Greenbrier) shot 59s.
John Daly didn't get divorced.
Phil Mickelson won the Masters for his fourth career major, but other than announcing he was going vegetarian, didn't do anything interesting the rest of the year.
Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy became the season's youngest winner -- 20 year, 11 months, 28 days -- at Quail Hollow.
Rocco Mediate was the oldest -- 37 years, 10 months -- winning the Frys.com.
John Daly didn't trash a hotel room.
And you thought the year was boring.
Actually, there were more memorable moments than the statistics might suggest:
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