TheBest Male GolferESPY Award has been presented annually in two different periods to theprofessionalmalegolfer adjudged to be the best in a givencalendar year. It was originally presented between1993 and2004, but was, along with the parallelBest Female Golfer ESPY Award, subsumed in2005 by theBest Golfer ESPY Award. The Best Male and Female Golfer Awards returned to the ESPY list in2009.
Between 1993 and2004, the award voting panel comprised variouslyfans;sportswriters andbroadcasters, sportsexecutives, and retiredsportspersons, termed collectivelyexperts; andESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over theInternet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.
Through the2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in July and reflect performance from the June previous. Because of therescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February2001 and June 2002. The award wasn't awarded in2020 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.
| Year | Golfer | Nation of citizenship |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Fred Couples |  United States |
| 1994 | Nick Price |  Zimbabwe |
| 1995 | Nick Price (2) | Zimbabwe |
| 1996 | Corey Pavin | United States |
| 1997 | Tom Lehman | United States |
| 1998 | Tiger Woods | United States |
| 1999 | Mark O'Meara | United States |
| 2000 | Tiger Woods (2) | United States |
| 2001 | Tiger Woods (3) | United States |
| 2002 | Tiger Woods (4) | United States |
| 2003 | Tiger Woods (5) | United States |
| 2004 | Phil Mickelson | United States |
| 2009 | Tiger Woods (6) | United States |
| 2010 | Phil Mickelson (2) | United States |
| 2011 | Rory McIlroy |  United Kingdom(  Northern Ireland) |
| 2012 | Bubba Watson | United States |
| 2013 | Tiger Woods (7) | United States |
| 2014 | Bubba Watson (2) | United States |
| 2015 | Jordan Spieth | United States |
| 2016 | Jordan Spieth (2) | United States |
| 2017 | Sergio García |  Spain |
| 2018 | Jordan Spieth (3) | United States |
| 2019 | Brooks Koepka | United States |
| 2020 | Not awarded due to theCOVID-19 pandemic | |
| 2021 | Phil Mickelson (3) | United States |
| 2022 | Justin Thomas | United States |