Golfer Vijay Singh has failed to win the U.S. PGA Tour Player of the Year award.

Singh who won two major titles this season, including the $10-million bonus, only received five votes from the PGA Tour players, who select the winner.

Ireland's Padraig Harrington has become the first European to win the PGA's Tour Player of the Year award, ending Tiger Woods three-year run as the top player on golf's premier professional circuit.

Harrington, a 37-year-old who received 184 votes earned the European Tour's Golfer of the Year honours for the second straight time earlier this month, captured consecutive major championships in 2008.

Woods finished in second place with 58 votes.