End of Season Awards: Best and worst of PGA Tour season

With the Ryder Cup capping off the PGA Tour season, it's time to look back and hand out some unofficial hardware for the year that was.

Here are the best and worst from the 2017-18 season:

Best Player

Winner: Brooks Koepka

Koepka takes home the top-player honors with his two impressive major titles, winning his second straight U.S. Open and the PGA Championship. Forgotten in his season was the four months he missed to begin 2018 due to a wrist injury, preventing him from playing in the Masters and perhaps having an even bigger year.

Runner-up: Justin Rose. Winner of the FedEx Cup and two PGA Tour events.

Biggest Disappointment

Winner: Jordan Spieth

Spieth's forgettable 2018 season included zero wins, zero runner-ups, four missed cuts, and failing to qualify for the Tour Championship for the first time in his career. He did not rank inside the top 20 of any strokes gained statistic and finished 136th in putting, which is typically his bread and butter.

Runner-up: Hideki Matsuyama. Plummeted from fifth in the world rankings to No. 21.

Best Tournament

Winner: Open Championship

The Open at Carnoustie had it all. Tiger Woods was right in the thick of things - at one point leading during the final round - but it was Francesco Molinari who eventually won the Claret Jug with massive names such as Spieth, Justin Rose, and Rory McIlroy not too far behind.

Worst Tournament

Winner: John Deere Classic

No one really pays attention to the John Deere Classic, as it's the week prior to the Open Championship with no big names in the field. Add in that Michael Kim won by a shocking eight shots and it's not hard to see why it was a very lackluster event.

Best Moment

Winner: Tiger wins Tour Championship

There was no greater, more goosebump-generating moment than watching Woods walk down the 18th fairway at the Tour Championship en route to his first win since 2013, with thousands of fans storming the fairway. It's a scene that will never get old.

Most Outrageous Moment

Winner: Mickelson's birthday oddity

Was this category created only to relive the Phil Mickelson debacle at the U.S. Open? You bet. Lefty takes the cake with this one, running on the greens at Shinnecock Hills to hit a moving ball and then doubling down afterward, saying he "took advantage of the rules." Never change, Phil.

Runner-up: Tony Finau dislocating his ankle during the Masters' par-3 contest. Finau went on to finish T-10 in a gutsy debut at Augusta.

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Best Shot

Winner: Dustin Johnson

Johnson earns the gold medal in this category. His drive on the 433-yard par 4 during the Tournament of Champions ended up inches away from the cup. Simply not fair.

Runner-up: Johnson, again. On the final hole of the St. Jude Classic, DJ holed out for eagle to seal his victory. Calmly fist-pumping his caddie is the best part - no big deal.

Worst Shot

Winner: Trey Mullinax

Mullinax needed to get up and down for birdie on No. 17 to potentially force a playoff at the Texas Open. Instead, he flat-out chunked his chip into the bunker and made bogey. Golf is hard.

Upset of the Year

Winner: Ted Potter Jr.

You have to go all the way back to early February for this one when Potter stared down Johnson in the final round at the Pebble Beach Pro-am. Potter was tied with DJ heading into Sunday and beat the world No. 1 by three shots to win the event.

Surprise Performer of the Year

Winner: Bryson DeChambeau

There was no doubt DeChambeau had the talent and pedigree to become a great PGA Tour player, but he exploded onto the scene in a major way in 2018. His three wins were tied for the most on the Tour this season, two of which came in the FedEx Cup playoffs. He'll be in the winner's circle many more times to come.