Sports Personality of the Year has become contrived and predictable
Matt Fitzpatrick won the US Amateur Championship and US Open this year. He didn't make the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist. Only one golfer has won it in the last six decades. In 2014, back-to-back majors, The Open and PGA Championship, either side of Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone, didn’t move the panellists. Three men, three women make shortlisted. In the same year, Mark Cavendish won a cycling's World Road Championship. Rory McIlroy won Formula One world championship. The panelists have fallen down a checklist rabbit-hole.
