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Jim Furyk got up and down on 18 to secure the title.

Every week of the 2010 PGA Tour season, the editorial staff of the SI Golf Group will conduct an e-mail roundtable. Check in on Mondays for the unfiltered opinions of our writers and editors and join the conversation in the comments section below.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR?
Jim Gorant, senior editor, Sports Illustrated: Jim Furyk won his third tournament of the year and the FedEx Cup. Is he the player of the year?

Cameron Morfit, senior writer, Golf Magazine: It's debatable, but I think you've got to give it to him. Three wins, including the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup. Nobody else on Tour did better than that over the course of the season.

Damon Hack, senior writer, Sports Illustrated: Three wins topped by an up and down for $10 million? I'm hopping off the D.J. train and riding shotgun with Gentleman Jim. He's POY.

Charlie Hanger, executive editor, Golf.com: With that pile of cash, who cares about POY voting? I'm sure Furyk won't.

Morfit: Good point. The money and/or FedEx Cup clearly meant something to him. I haven't ever seen Furyk react like that.

Alan Shipnuck, senior writer, Sports Illustrated: Might as well be Furyk. No one else has three wins, or the FedEx Cup.

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Hack: And if the man had a working alarm clock, he cruises to the FedEx Cup crown.

Jim Herre, managing editor, SI Golf Group: Yes, you have to put him in the mix, but aside from winning the FedEx Cup and whatever he might do at the Ryder Cup, he hasn't had a particularly sexy season. Wins at second-tier Tampa and Hilton Head events, and the Tour Championship is a tiny-field crap shoot. Missed cuts at Masters and British. Don't think Furyk is my first choice.

Gary Van Sickle, senior writer, Sports Illustrated: I've got to put an asterisk next to win No. 3. Beating 29 guys in a lucrative outing doesn't count as a full win. Furyk earns best American player of the year, but player of the year still goes to Martin Kaymer, who had two European wins to go with a major championship.

Mark Godich, senior editor, Sports Illustrated: It kind of sums up what kind of year it has been. But I think you still have to give it to Furyk. Delivering in those conditions with all that cash on the line says something.

Herre: I simply don't think winning the Tour Championship is that big a deal. Sure, you get $10 million, but so what? There are only 30 guys in the field. I bet any pro would like his odds in a 30-man field over a full field.

Hack: The guy won three times. At 40. In this era of bombers and youngsters. And for the record, Innisbrook is a beast, Hilton Head is more than worthy and East Lake needs no introduction.

Van Sickle: I agree, the courses he won on were terrific. The fields he beat were anything but.

Mike Walker, senior editor, Golf Magazine: The majors are too important to give POY to Furyk. Nothing against the Transitions and the Verizon Heritage, but they're not big events. Dustin Johnson had a breakout year, two wins and was in the thick of two majors. The true player of the year is Martin Kaymer, but he's not on the PGA Tour, so I'm staying on the Dustin Johnson train.

Farrell Evans, writer-reporter, Sports Illustrated: Furyk didn't have a Top 10 in the majors this season, missing the cut badly in the Masters and the British Open. I don't know how he can be the POY under those circumstances. But I won't be surprised if he gets it in what has turned out to be a year of missed chances for Dustin Johnson.

Hack: I understand that logic, but in a year with four different major champions — none really more worthy than the other — I'm going with the guy with the volume. I just don't see why Phil should be POY over Graeme, or Graeme over Louis, or Louis over Martin, or Martin over Phil.

Morfit: Thirty is not enough players for the Tour Championship, I agree. The Tour got lucky in that the FedEx bonanza went to the guy who won the Tour Championship, and it came down to the last putt, but all in all I thought the Tour Championship lacked sizzle, as it often does. Even with Tiger playing, it gets back to the too-small size of the field.

Van Sickle: If you make the field bigger, you make it more likely that you don't lose as many big names in the cut-downs. A field of 50, and Tiger is still playing, just as he would've been in my cumulative par system.

David Dusek, deputy editor, Golf.com: In a year of parity, deciding POY should be hard. I know that Dustin Johnson was in the mix in the majors, but the bottom line is the guy didn't win any of them. Two wins on the PGA Tour is a very strong year, but I can't vote for the guy who almost won a few majors.

Morfit: Agreed. Johnson produced the most legitimate highlights and agony-of-defeat highlights, but you've got to actually hang on to win the tournament for it to count in POY terms.

Walker: Then you can talk me into Phil Mickelson, but a vote for Furyk is drinking Kool-Aid out of the FedEx Cup. Really, we have no good choices this year.

Gorant: Furyk should get it just for refusing to put on his rain jacket in the downpour. Man's man.

Godich: Not to mention the nice touch of flipping the cap around.

John Garrity, contributing writer, Sports Illustrated: My POY ballot is blank. Can I consider the Ryder Cup in my deliberations?