Yet another Year of the Tiger has come and gone. This time it’s really over, or at least it will be by Sunday when his Tiger, er, Target World Challenge concludes with Woods adding $1.3 million to the $10.6 million he won earlier this season in his “personal drive to a billion.’’.

Winning his seventh PGA Tour

Bryan Hoops: The verdict is still out, but early returns say that the Chandler resident is the 2005 Arizona Golf Association Player of the Year. Even Hoops thinks he might have unseated Ken Kellaney, the AGA’s nine-time player of the year, in what looks like a very close encounter for top amateur in the state.

“You know, I was just trying to figure that out myself,’’ said the 36-year-old Hoops (pronounced “Hops’’). “As far as my math goes, I don’t think Ken is near the top for the Mayfair Award, and that’s what would be the determining factor.’’

As it stands, and regardless of the Nova points performance system, a player must win a major championship or the Mayfair Award (low-stroke average) to become the AGA’s player of the year. Hoops won the Mid-Amateur in a season in which Kellaney failed to win a major.