NAPA, Calif. – Emiliano Grillo became the third member of the class of 2011 to win the PGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year Award.
The award – given to the Argentine at the Safeway Open, site of his first Tour victory last season – was handed out after a tight race, with Grillo, Si Woo Kim and Smylie Kaufman in the hunt to claim the honor through the Tour Championship.
Kaufman won the week after Grillo last season in Las Vegas, while Kim won the Wyndham Championship, lost a playoff at the Barbasol Championship and finished 17th on the FedEx Cup points list.