PGATOUR.COM receives five awards in annual GWAA contest

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Five PGATOUR.COM stories were honored in the Golf Writers Association of America's annual writing contest. The results were announced Thursday morning.

For the second consecutive year, Managing Editor Mike McAllister won first place in the Internet Columns category for a column about Tom Watson's dream falling short at Turnberry (click to read). McAllister also won third place in the Internet Features category for a story on 10-year-old Cody Carroll, who has aspirations of being a course designer (click to read).

List of winners

For the full list of winners in the annual Golf Writers Association of America's annual writing contest, please click here.

Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM's Chief of Correspondents, picked up two honorable mentions -- in Internet Columns for a column about Tom Watson's heartbreak (click to read), and in Internet Features for Lucas Glover's win at the U.S. Open (click to read).

Producer Brian Wacker also received an honorable mention in Internet Features for a behind-the-scenes look at the PGA TOUR's fitness trailer (click to read).

This is the second consecutive year that five PGATOUR.COM entries have been honored.

Golf Digest's Dan Jenkins picked up the eighth win of his storied career and Sports Illustrated's Alan Shipnuck was a double winner.

Jenkins won the Non-Daily Column category with a column on Old Money vs. New Money. His first win was in the organization's inaugural contest in 1957 when he won the features category writing for the Fort Worth Press. He won that category again in 1962 and, after moving to Sports Illustrated, he won the Non-Daily award from1969-1971. His last three wins have been for stories written for Golf Digest.

Shipnuck won both the Internet and Non-Daily News categories. His Internet win was for a story on the beginning of the Tiger Woods "death watch'' .He also finished second in that category with a story on Phil Mickelson and John Daly making their returns in Memphis. His story on Angel Cabrera's win at the Masters was the Non-Daily winner.

Michael Bamberger picked up a career fifth win -- and the third first place for Sports Illustrated this year -- with a Non-Daily feature on Rory McIlroy.

Ian O'Connor of The Record picked up his second consecutive Daily Columns win on Phil Mickelson showing heart in his U.S. Open loss.

Scott Michaux of The Augusta Chronicle grabbed his fourth career win for a feature on Errie Ball, the last living competitor from the first Masters. Fanhouse.com's Mick Elliott got his second career first-place for an Internet feature on Ken Green starting his comeback following a horrific car accident.

First time winners were Doug Ferguson of The Associated Press who won the Daily Special Project category with a series on slow progress -- and optimism -- by African Americans in golf and Ron Krochick of the San Francisco Chronicle who won Daily News with his second-round story from the Presidents Cup.

Golf Digest Companies won the Non-Daily Special Projects category for the sixth consecutive year and swept the category. The winning project was on Golf and the environment. Golfweek won first place in Internet Special Projects

All winners will be honored at the GWAA's Annual Awards Dinner April 7 in Augusta, Ga.