MARC WARREN LOSES OUT TO
QUIROS FOR J/WALKER
YOUNG PLAYER TITLE

India's Jeev Milkha Singh has capped a fine year by being named the Johnnie Walker Classic Asian Player of the Year for 2006.
Singh, who will become the first Indian golfer to play at the US Masters in Augusta, collected four tournament victories around the world following a seven-year winless streak.
The 35-year-old lifted the Volvo China Open in Beijing before finishing the year by winning the European Tour's season-ending Volvo Masters in Spain and recording back-to-back wins in Japan. Singh also won his first Asian Tour Order of Merit crown and ended 2006 as the first Indian player to reach the top 50 in the world after finishing 37th.
Thailand's Chinarat Phadungsil collected the Johnnie Walker Classic Asian Rising Star award, while Spaniard Alvaro Quiros beat off competition from Marc Warren, pictured above, the 2006 European Tour Rookie of the Year, to secure the Johnnie Walker Young Player of the Year accolade.
Quiros beat Ernie Els and Lee Westwood to lift the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa.