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FULLY-eXeMPt PLAYeRSTrevor immelman (Continued)Section Player BiograPhies2Ernie Els (three), Nick price (three) and retief goosen(two). Final-round 75 marked the eighth time in masterstournament history the champion has posted an over-parscore in the final round. the 75 matched arnold palmer’s in1962 as the highest winning final-round score in mastershistory...two months after winning the masters, lost in athree-man playoff to Justin Leonard on the second playoffhole at the Stanford St. Jude championship. Shared secondwith robert allenby. It was his third runner-up finish ontour (two in playoffs). He improved his position after thesecond, third and final rounds to a earn a spot in the playoffwith allenby and Leonard. Birdied 71st and 72nd holesto make playoff...Finished t65 in the second major of theyear, the u.S. open at torrey pines...played in all four pgatour playoffs for the FedExcup events ending the yearon a strong note with a t13 at the BmW championshipfollowed by a t10 finish at tHE tour championship. 2007:Won more than $1.8 million and was a member of theInternational team at the presidents cup...Finished third infirst appearance in the mercedes-Benz championship. oneof four first-time participants to finish among the top-10...Finished third at the World golf championships-accenturematch play championship, defeating chad campbell inthe consolation final, 4 and 2. Defeated thomas Bjorn,chris Dimarco, Ian poulter and Justin rose before fallingto champion Henrik Stenson in the semifinals, 3 and 2...Earned a berth on the 2007 presidents cup Internationalteam, his second straight time as a member...Did notcompete on tour after that and ultimately dropped fromNo. 32 to No. 46 on the money list...Beat Justin rose byone stroke to win the Nedbank challenge in South africain early December. 2006: Voted pga tour rookie of theYear based on a victory at the cialis Western open andseventh-place finish on the money list. First rookie sinceJerry pate (1976) to finish 10th or better on the money list.Led all rookies with eight top-10s in 24 starts...Finishedsecond at the Wachovia championship, losing in a oneholeplayoff to Jim Furyk for his best finish on tour beforewinning. three-putt bogey on the 72nd hole forced theplayoff with Furyk, who won with a par on the 18th holein the playoff...Finished one stroke back of Brett Wetterichat the EDS Byron Nelson championship to place secondfor the second consecutive week. Fired an 8-under 64 inthe third round to move into a tie for the lead with adamScott through 54 holes...overcame the two-shot lead ofVijay Singh on final day to capture first tour event at thecialis Western open, punctuated by a 30-foot birdie putt onthe 72nd hole to clinch two-stroke win over tiger Woodsand mathew goggin. posted rounds of 69-66-69-67—271to become just the sixth player to post four rounds in the60s since the event moved to cog Hill in 1991...Withdrewfrom the British open to return home for the birth of hisfirst child, Jacob trevor...t5 at tHE tour championship.2005: posted first career major championship top-10 witha t5 at the masters, aided by a third-round 7-under-par 65that tied tiger Woods for low third-round honors. Finalround73 included a double bogey on par-5 13th and thelone ace of the week on the par-3 16th with a 6-iron from179 yards…chosen as a captain’s pick for the presidentscup by International team captain gary player. Had 1-3-0record…Joined tour as a Special temporary memberafter the pga championship. 2004: Followed in the footstepsof one of his heroes, gary player, when he becamethe first person since the Black Knight in 1976-77 to successfullydefend the South african airways open. camefrom two strokes back after three rounds to win by threestrokes...Earned second win of the season at DeutscheBank-Sap open tpc of Europe. 2003: Hit approach shotfrom 169 yards to 6 inches on the first playoff hole againsttim clark at the South african open. tap-in birdie earnedfirst career victory after three previous runner-up finishesand a two-year exemption on the European tour...In thirdcareer World golf championships event, posted firstcareer top-10 on tour with a t9 at the NEc Invitational.2002: recorded three seconds on the European tour, atthe French open, Volvo Scandinavian masters and omegaEuropean masters. Amateur: made the cut as an amateurat the 1999 masters and 2001 memorial tournament...Won the 2000 Vodacom players championship in hisnative South africa...1998 u.S. public Links champion...Lost in three 1997 finals, at the British amateur at royal Stgeorge’s, the New Zealand amateur and the u.S. Junior...In 1996 made the South african team at age 17 and playedin the Eisenhower trophy in chile...First-team aJga allamericanin 1996, having defeated Bubba Watson in thefinals of the rolex Junior classic.PeRSonAL:Began playing golf at age 5, following in the footsteps ofhis golf teaching brother mark, who is nine years olderand the current coach at columbus (ga) State university.Scratch player by age 12 and played the african Junior golfassociation tour from age 13 to 17…Father, Johan, is theformer commissioner of the Sunshine tour.PLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................71.16 (123)Driving Distance ...........................................286.4 (110)Driving accuracy percentage .......................64.07% (90)greens in regulation percentage ................66.06% (126)putting average ...........................................1.833 (187)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 65–rBc canadian open/3career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 64–3 times,most recent 2008 World golf championships-BridgestoneInvitational/2Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $1,350,000–2008 masters tournament/1career High official World Rank: after 2007 Wachoviachampionship/12Fredrik Jacobson (yoCK-ub-son)eXeMPt StAtUS: 44th on 2010 money listFULL nAMe: Fredrik ulf Yngve JacobsonHeiGHt: 6-1WeiGHt: 178BiRtHDAte: September 26, 1974BiRtHPLAce: gothenburg, SwedenReSiDence: Hobe Sound, FL; plays out of Kungsbacuagc (Halland, Sweden)FAMiLY: Wife, Erika; alice Sophia J. (5/07/04), Emmiecharlise (1/20/06), max Fredrik (12/14/07)SPeciAL inteReStS: Boating, skiing, sportstURneD PRoFeSSionAL: 1994JoineD toUR: 2003BeSt PGA toUR cAReeR FiniSH:2—2008 at&t National, 2010 Valero texas open,t2—2007 ginn sur mer classic.inteRnAtionAL VictoRieS (3):2003 omega Hong Kong open [Eur], algarve open deportugal [Eur], Volvo masters [Eur].BeSt 2010 PGA toUR FiniSHeS:2—Valero texas open; t6—the Honda classic; t10—tHE pLaYErS championship.2010 SeASon:made 18 of 24 cuts to go with three top-10s. played inthe first three playoff events for the FedExcup. recordedhis third runner-up finish in the last four seasons…one ofjust three players since 2003 to post four rounds in the 60sat the Honda classic, shooting four consecutive 69s tofinish t6. Despite missing the cut at the event in 2005 and2006, has three top-six finishes at this event (t6 in 2010,t5 in 2009 and t4 in 2004). camilo Villegas, the 2010winner, and John rollins in 2009 are the other all-60sshooters…Finished t10 at tHE pLaYErS championship.It was his first top-10 at tpc Sawgrass in seven careerstarts…Finished second the following week at the Valerotexas open. missed a 17-foot birdie at the 72nd hole, his36th hole of the day, that would have forced a playoffwith winner adam Scott. the solo second was his secondstraight top-five Valero texas open finish.cAReeR HiGHLiGHtS:2009: Won more than $1 million and recorded three top-10s for the third consecutive season...First top-10 finish ofthe year came at the Honda classic where he finished t5.It was his fourth start in the event and the first made cutthere since claiming t4 in 2004...Earned another t5 finishat the Valero texas open after four rounds in the 60s...third top-10 of the season came at the Barclays, postingPLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................70.37 (35)Driving Distance ...........................................283.1 (131)Driving accuracy percentage .......................62.16% (122)greens in regulation percentage ................67.80% (78)putting average ...........................................1.766 (53)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 62–Wyndham championship/4career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 62–3 times, mostrecent 2010 Wyndham championship/4Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $658,800–2010 Valero texas open/2career High official World Rank: after 2004 the Hondaclassic/162-92 PGA TOUR 2011 Guidepgatour.com