IRL Golden Boot Award
The award was founded in early 1985 by the British magazine Open Rugby.Andrew Johns collected the award in 1999 and again in 2001, becoming the first player to win it twice.In 2011, Rugby League World magazine began to award retrospective Golden Boots to fill in "the missing years" of 1990 to 1998, starting with Garry Schofield who was adjudged to have won the 1990 Golden Boot.No further Golden Boots were retrospectively awarded as sponsors Adidas withdrew their backing.The International Rugby League purchased the rights to award the Golden Boot in 2017.