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FULLY-eXeMPt PLAYeRSsean o’haireXeMPt StAtUS: multiple tournament winner(through 2012)FULL nAMe: Sean m. o’HairHeiGHt: 6-2WeiGHt: 165BiRtHDAte: July 11, 1982BiRtHPLAce: Lubbock, tXReSiDence: West chester, paFAMiLY: Wife, Jaclyn; molly Kate (2005), Luke (2007),grady (2009)SPeciAL inteReStS: Football, basketball, racingtURneD PRoFeSSionAL: 1999Q ScHooL: 2004nationwide tour AlumnusPGA toUR VictoRieS (3):2005 John Deere classic. 2008 poDS championship. 2009Quail Hollow championship.BeSt 2010 PGA toUR FiniSHeS:t4—SBS championship; 5—World golf championships-Bridgestone Invitational; t7—British open.2010 SeASon:recorded his second consecutive fourth-place finish at theSBS championship, four strokes behind champion geoffogilvy. Entered the final hole at 20-under and one shotbehind tournament leader ogilvy at the time, before hittinghis second shot on No. 18 into a hazard and carding adouble-bogey…Next top-10 finish came 16 starts later, at7 at the British open. During that span, recorded eight top-25 finishes without cracking the top 10. Has missed the cutjust twice in 19 major championship appearances, with twotop-10 finishes (the other came at the 2009 masters, t10).He has never missed a cut in six starts at the British open,with a t14 in 2006 his previous best outing before 2010…Shared the 54-hole lead at the World golf championships-Bridgestone Invitational at 9-under-par and finished fifth,his first top-10 in a World golf championships stroke-playevent, after a final-round 71. Held the lead outright on duringthe final round after birdies at Nos. 2 and 4, but unableto rebound from bogeys at Nos. 8, 11 and 14.cAReeR HiGHLiGHtS:2009: Won the third tournament of his career en route to acareer-best nine top-10 finishes and a fifth-place finish inthe FedExcup...a final-round, 8-under 65, the best round ofthe day, led to a fourth-place finish at the season-openingmercedes-Benz championship...Lost 4 and 3 to eventualfinalist paul casey in the quarterfinals of the World golfchampionships-accenture match play championship, finishingt5...recorded a par on the final hole at the arnoldpalmer Invitational presented by mastercard to finish secondto tiger Woods, who made birdie on the last hole soonafter o’Hair’s par. Led by five entering the final round...Hadthree rounds in the 60s on the way to a t10 finish at themasters tournament, his first top-10 in a major championship...Fiveweeks after losing a lead to Woods at the arnoldpalmer Invitational, surged down the stretch in winning theQuail Hollow championship by one stroke over Lucas gloverand Bubba Watson. closed with a 3-under 69—the onlyplayer from the last nine groups to break 70 at charlotte’sQuail Hollow club—and made enough key birdies thatfinishing with consecutive bogeys on the two toughestholes at Quail Hollow didn’t cost him. took the outright leadwith a two-putt birdie from 70 feet on the 15th, then seizedcontrol with an 8-iron to 8 feet for birdie on the 16th hole.glover, who bogeyed the par-3 17th, had a chance to force aplayoff on 18 until his approach bounded over the firm greenand his birdie chip turned away to the left. Became the onlycurrent american player in his 20s with three pga tourvictories. International players Sergio garcia and adamScott are the only others in the under-30 set to achievethat feat. the win vaulted him to third in the FedExcupstandings...Entered the final round of the Deutsche Bankchampionship tied for the lead with Steve Stricker andretief goosen, but an even-par 71 dropped him to a t8finish, his seventh top-10 of the season. Was 8-under inan eight-hole stretch in the second round (Nos. 15-4) whenhe shot 64...one week later, posted rounds of 70-66 onthe weekend to finish fourth at the BmW championship.climbed from 16th to seventh in the FedExcup standingsentering tHE tour championship presented by coca-cola...Jumped out to the opening-round lead at East Lake with a4-under 66 and eventually finished third. one of just twoplayers (tiger Woods) without an over-par round during theweek. Finished the season fifth in the FedExcup standings...Was a rookie on the u.S. presidents cup team...runner-upin a playoff to anthony Kim at the Kiwi challenge. 2008:Notched second career tour victory to go with three top-10s...after missing the cut in his two previous starts, cameback with a two-stroke win at the poDS championship.Finished the event at 4-under 284, the highest winningscore in tournament history and the highest on tour sinceangel cabrera won the 2007 u.S. open. collected a careerbest$954,000. at 25 years, 6 months, 28 days, becamethe youngest player to win the poDS championship andone of just seven players younger than 30 with two ormore wins on the pga tour. 2007: tallied a then-careerhigh in top-10s (5) and nearly $2 million in earnings...the54-hole leader by two strokes over phil mickelson at tHEpLaYErS championship. playing with mickelson in thelast group on Sunday, saw victory hopes evaporate witha quadruple-bogey on the par-3 17th hole (two balls in thewater). Finished 11th after a final-round 76. on his 71sthole, he said: “I went dead after the pin, and it was right online with the pin, maybe a yard right of the pin, and went inthe water. You’ve got to make something happen. I didn’tbust it for four days to get second place. So obviously I paidfor it.” 2006: Followed his sensational rookie season with astrong second year. Entered 30 events, made 20 cuts andfinished in the top-25 seven times...played well in the majorchampionships, making the cut in three of the four. Finishedt14 at the British open and t12 at the pga championship,his best finish in six career major championship starts...Finished third at the canadian open, his best finish sincecapturing the 2005 John Deere classic, two behind championJim Furyk. 2005: Stellar first season on tour, whichincluded his first victory, a runner-up finish and rookieof the Year honors...First tour win came at John Deereclassic just one day shy of his 23rd birthday in his 18thcareer tour start. posted four rounds in the 60s, includinga final-round 6-under-par 65 that overcame a five-stroke J.L.Lewis lead. Finished the tournament with one bogey overhis last 60 holes. Earned a career-high $720,000 and a spotin the British open field the following week, jumping to 16thPLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................70.60 (53)Driving Distance ...........................................289.3 (78)Driving accuracy percentage .......................63.98% (92)greens in regulation percentage ................68.22% (63)putting average ...........................................1.817 (170)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 64–World golf championships-Bridgestone Invitational/3career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 63–2008 arnoldpalmer Invitational presented by mastercard/3Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $1,170,000–2009 Quail Hollow championship/1career High official World Rank: after 2009 Hp ByronNelson championship/12Section 2 Player BiograPhiesPGA toUR cAReeR SUMMARY PLAYoFF RecoRD: 0-0events cuts Fedexcup Pts/ earnings/Year Played Made 1st 2nd 3rd top 10 top 25 Rank Rank2005 29 24 1 1 4 9 $2,461,482/182006 30 20 1 2 7 1,411,387/622007 28 21 5 14 91,963/58 1,921,226/382008 25 17 1 2 3 6 97,675/75 2,089,857/352009 23 18 1 1 1 9 14 2,200/5 4,316,493/62010 25 19 3 11 1,206/47 1,859,040/41total 160 119 3 2 4 26 61 14,059,485nAtionWiDe toURYear events Played cuts Made 1st 2nd 3rd top 10 top 25 earnings/Rank1999a 2 11999 12000 42001 7 1 $1,201/3082002 2 1 1,243/3102004 2 1 3,400/2602005 1 1 1 1 1 54,000/88total 19 5 1 1 1 59,844* Majors and World Golf championships are considered official on multiple tours*PGA toUR toP toURnAMent SUMMARYYear 05 06 07 08 09 10masters cut t14 t10 t30u.S. open t26 cut t23 t12British open t15 t14 t67 82 t65 t7pga t59 t12 t42 t31 75 cuttHE pLaYErS t58 11 cut cut t22tour championship 12 3accenture match play championship t17 t5 t17Bridgestone Invitational t51 t12 t70 5ca championship t35 t54 WD t13 t18HSBc championst62the Barclays t46 t36 t25 cut cut t31Deutsche Bank championship t15 t57 t9 cut t8 cutBmW championship t34 t30 t57 4 t37nAtionAL teAMS: the presidents cup (1), 2009.pgatour.com PGA TOUR 2011 Guide2-139