5 golfers we can’t believe have never won the BBC SPOTY award

This year it will change – surely? Because, as a sport, golf has something of a grudge about the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. Common wisdom has it that the game suffers from being consistently snubbed by the Beeb. Before we look at the five golfers who surprisingly didn’t win the big gong, let’s take a look at other evidence of golf being nudged into the wings. Let’s start, in fact, with Ian Poulter’s explosive reaction when Matt Fitzpatrick didn’t make the shortlist in 2022 despite winning the US Open. “Sorry but complete disregard for @MattFitz94 makes this event a continued farce and joke,” he cried on X. “I experienced first hand how much of a joke this was 10 years ago....