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Punch Shot: Biggest surprise of the PGA Tour season

With the 2014-15 PGA Tour campaign in the rear-view mirror, GolfChannel.com writers offer up their pick for biggest surprise of the season. Click here for their pick for best shot and click here for most memorable moment.

By REX HOGGARD

Say what you will about Tiger Woods’ recent struggles, his injuries, his inconsistent play, even his irrelevance in recent years, but his resume in 2015 was still the year’s biggest surprise.

The same player who just 12 months earlier was coming off a five-win PGA Tour season began his ’15 campaign with his worst performance in a non-major, a second-round 82 in Phoenix to miss the cut, and followed that with a surreal withdrawal at Torrey Pines citing a lingering back ailment.