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FULLY-eXeMPt PLAYeRSadam scotteXeMPt StAtUS: 2010 tournament winner(through 2012)FULL nAMe: adam ScottHeiGHt: 6-0WeiGHt: 170BiRtHDAte: July 16, 1980BiRtHPLAce: adelaide, australiaReSiDence: crans sur Sierre, SwitzerlandFAMiLY: SingleeDUcAtion: university of Nevada-Las VegasSPeciAL inteReStS: all sports, biographies, surfingtURneD PRoFeSSionAL: 2000JoineD toUR: 2003PGA toUR VictoRieS (7):2003 Deutsche Bank championship. 2004 tHE pLaYErSchampionship, Booz allen classic. 2006 tHE tourchampionship presented by coca-cola. 2007 Shell Houstonopen. 2008 EDS Byron Nelson championship. 2010 Valerotexas open.inteRnAtionAL VictoRieS (10):2001 alfred Dunhill pga championship [Saf]. 2002 Qatarmasters [Eur], gleneagles Scottish pga championship[Eur]. 2003 Scandic carlsberg Scandinavian masters [Eur].2005 Singapore open [asia], Johnnie Walker classic [Eur].2006 Singapore open [asia]. 2008 commercialbank Qatarmasters [Eur]. 2009 australian open [aus]. 2010 BarclaysSingapore open [asia].otHeR VictoRieS (1):2005 Nissan open [unofficial, 36 holes]BeSt 2010 PGA toUR FiniSHeS:1—Valero texas open; t5—Deutsche Bank championship;t9—World golf championships-Bridgestone Invitational,the Barclays.2010 SeASon:Finished 19th in the pga tour playoffs for the FedExcupand returned to tHE tour championship for the first timesince 2007. Bounced back with a victory and four top-10finishes after posting only one top-10 in 2009…ralliedfrom four strokes back on the final, marathon day at theValero texas open for his first pga tour victory in twoyears, Was 11-under in a 36-hole Sunday finale, edgingFredrik Jacobson by a stroke on the new oaks course attpc San antonio. the busy finish was necessitated by aFriday rainout. the course was designed by his hero, fellowcountryman greg Norman, who sent a congratulatorymessage after his first win since the australian open inDecember. Finished at 14-under 274 and earned $1,098,000for his seventh tour victory and first since the 2008Hp Byron Nelson championship. He overcame two earlybogeys with an eagle on the par-4 17th in his third-round66, then built his lead with six birdies en route to a closing67. Survived a closing bogey—his only one in thefinal round—when Jacobson missed a 16-footer fromPGA toUR cAReeR SUMMARY PLAYoFF RecoRD: 2-0events cuts Fedexcup Pts/ earnings/Year Played Made 1st 2nd 3rd top 10 top 25 Rank Rank2000 6 1 $10,200/2001 6 4 1 93,026/2002 10 7 2 4 339,157/2003 14 11 1 1 2 6 1,238,736/552004 16 12 2 1 1 7 8 3,724,984/72005 19 18 1 6 8 2,592,255/152006 19 17 1 3 3 10 14 4,978,858/32007 19 17 1 1 6 10 100,684/12 3,413,185/112008 15 13 1 3 7 101,295/47 1,979,160/392009 19 9 1 1 2 432/110 783,138/1082010 20 16 1 4 8 640/19 2,489,402/28total 163 125 7 7 5 41 68 21,642,100eURoPeAn toURYear events Played cuts Made 1st 2nd 3rd top 10 top 25 earnings/Rank2010 8 7 1 3 $458,212* Majors and World Golf championships are considered official on multiple tours*the fringe on No. 18 that would have forced a playoff. Hislast three tour victories have come in texas—the ShellHouston open in 2007 and the 2008 Hp Byron Nelsonchampionship…posted final-round 67 to finish t9 at theWorld golf championships-Bridgestone Invitational…oneof three players to record top-10 finishes in each of the firsttwo pga tour playoff events, finishing t9 at the Barclaysand t5 at the Deutsche Bank championship…Finished27th at tHE tour championship in his first start in theplayoffs finale since 2007…picked up his second title of theseason when he opened with a pair of 65s at the BarclaysSingapore open and then cruised with a 69-68 finish atSentosa gc. He defeated anders Hansen by three strokesin winning in Singapore for the third time (2005 and 2006).cAReeR HiGHLiGHtS:2009: Finished 108th on the final money list, his worstcareer finish, with one top-10 finish and nine made cuts in19 starts...Shot a final-round 64 to finish as the runner-up atthe Sony open in Hawaii. Finished tied with David toms,two strokes behind winner Zach Johnson...Was a captain’sSelection by International captain greg Norman for thepresidents cup. Had a 1-4-0 record in u.S. win...Bothered bya knee ailment during the season...Won the australian openin late December, beating Stuart appleby by five strokes forhis first professional victory in his home country. 2008: Wonon the pga tour and European tour despite setbacks frominjury and illness...Fired a final-round, 11-under-par 61,which broke the course record and set a new personal low,to win the commercialbank Qatar masters in late Januaryon the European tour. Became the tournament’s only twotimewinner as he beat Henrik Stenson by three strokes atDoha gc...after losing a three-stroke lead he carried intothe final round, sank a 9-foot birdie putt on No. 18 to forcea playoff at 7-under par, then made a 48-footer playing itagain on the third playoff hole to beat ryan moore in theEDS Byron Nelson championship. In shooting 68-67-67-71—273 to capture his sixth pga tour victory, made fourbirdies in six tries on the 429-yard, par-4 finishing hole attpc Four Seasons resort, the last of which he made afterhitting his drive into a fairway bunker. moore barely misseda tying birdie putt on the third playoff hole...paired withtiger Woods (No. 1 in the world) and phil mickelson (No. 2)PGA toUR toP toURnAMent SUMMARYin first two rounds of u.S. open where he finished t26.Nearly had to withdraw because of a broken right pinkyfinger that he injured when it was slammed in a car door...couldn’t play in the australian open in December after sufferinga knee injury while surfing. 2007: competed in all fourpga tour playoffs for the FedExcup events and finished12th on the season-long points list. Won his fifth careerpga tour title at the Shell Houston open and earned aspot on his third presidents cup team...runner-up to VijaySingh at the mercedes-Benz championship, his third top-10in three career starts at the plantation course...Earned fifthcareer official tour victory at the Shell Houston open,defeating Stuart appleby and 54-hole leader Bubba Watsonby three strokes with rounds of 69-71-65-66—271. clingingto a one-stroke lead over appleby on the 72nd tee, hit teeshot into water hazard but made an up-and-down par on the488-yard par 4, holing a 48-foot putt to clinch the win asappleby found a hazard and made double bogey on the hole.Became the sixth australian to win the Shell Houstonopen...Second-round 62 at the memorial tournament propelledhim into the 36-hole lead. Final-round birdies at 15and 16 brought him into contention before bogeys at 17 and18 left him t5, three shots behind champion K.J. choi...Was1-3-1 in his third presidents cup, bringing his career recordto 7-6-2. 2006: punctuated season of near-misses with avictory at tHE tour championship, finishing the seasonNo. 3 on the money list and No. 4 in the official World golfranking. also notched a career-best 10 top-10s and finishedthird in Scoring average (68.95)...Followed unofficial win atthe 2005 Nissan open with a runner-up finish, one strokebehind winner rory Sabbatini. posted a final-round 7-under64 at riviera cc to sit at 12-under par in the clubhouseabout one and one-half hours before the final group. Waitedfor possible playoff but Sabbatini made birdie on the par-316th hole to take the tournament...Finished third at theWachovia championship thanks to closing rounds of 66-71,for his second top-five finish...Shared the lead after each ofthe first three rounds at the EDS Byron Nelson championship,but a closing 1-over 71 dropped him to t3 in his first start atthe event...Finished t4 at the memorial tournament, hisfourth top-five finish of the season...posted his second runner-upfinish of the season thanks to an eagle on the 72ndhole, one of two on the day, which left him two strokesYear 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10masters t9 t23 cut t33 t27 t27 t25 cut t18u.S. open cut cut cut t28 t21 cut t26 t36 cutBritish open cut t47 cut cut t42 t34 t8 t27 t16 cut t27pga cut t23 t23 t9 t40 t3 t12 cut cut t39tHE pLaYErS cut t17 1 t8 t53 t6 t54 cut t26tour championship t21 t7 1 t26 27accenture match play championship t17 3 t9 t5 t17 t33 t17 t33 t17Bridgestone Invitational t64 t55 t36 t10 t36 t56 t51 t9ca championship cNL t39 t40 t36 t29 t2 t61 t9 t66 t50HSBc championst25the Barclays t79 t32 2 t14 cut t58 t9Deutsche Bank championship 1 t2 t50 t17 t73 t5BmW championship t21 4 t50 t15nAtionAL teAMS: the presidents cup (4), 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009; World cup (1), 2002.Section 2 Player BiograPhiespgatour.com PGA TOUR 2011 Guide2-171