As the curtain comes down on the 2013 season, there have been several performances that have stood out and made it an unforgettable year for golf.

With five, four and three wins respectively during the season, it is not difficult to see why Tiger Woods, Adam Scott and Henrik Stenson were the top three-ranked players in the world.

Of course, tournament wins — and especially Major wins — always define a player’s season. However, Phil Mickelson’s wins at the Open Championship and the Scottish Open were more meaningful than just that. The American has always seemed to struggle on links courses and for him to win two on the trot on such courses was just brilliant.

There were maiden Major wins for Justin Rose and Jason Dufner, while players like Jordan Spieth and Peter Uihlein showed how much difference a year can make to a career. Spieth’s was really an unbelievable story, with the American youngster graduating from a nobody at the start of the season to a superstar of the sport by the end of it.

And on the ladies’ side, it really is difficult to better someone who finished the season with three Majors and the No.1 rank — Park Inbee.

But surely Park will have to share the spotlight with players like world No.2 Suzann Pettersen, who won four titles on the LPGA Tour, and American Stacy Lewis, who was a picture of consistency as she finished the year with 12 top-eight finishes in a row.

Let’s also not forget the impact of 16-year-old Lydia Ko, who won on the LPGA Tour again as an amateur before turning pro towards the end of the season and promptly winning a tournament in just her second start in the paid ranks.

But if I really have to choose one as my player of the year, I will have to vote for Stenson. While the fans have definitely enjoyed it, I think us players can appreciate the rich vein of form he has hit since finishing third at the Scottish Open in July.

Nothing has stopped him — neither physical injury nor the mental fatigue of playing at such a high level for such a prolonged period. To be able to win the FedEx Cup and the Race to Dubai in the same year is just fantastic, but to secure it by winning the Tour Championships on both sides of the Atlantic is even better.

The only thing missing from his season was a Major victory, but if he keeps playing like this, I don’t think it is too far away.

— Jeev Milkha Singh is a four-time champion on the European Tour