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FULLY-eXeMPt PLAYeRSKevin stadler (Continued)Section Player BiograPhies2Bubba Watson and michael Long in a four-hole playoff.His father, craig, won the champions tour’s Bank ofamerica championship in massachusetts just minutesearlier. Became the first Sponsor Exemption to win onthe Nationwide tour since chris couch won the 2001Florida classic…two weeks later won in a playoff atthe Scholarship america Showdown, with a tournamentrecord 11-under-par 269. the win came in just his fourthcareer start on the Nationwide tour, giving him the honoras the fastest player to two wins in tour history. madethe cut in four of five appearances on the pga tour.as an amateur, was named pac-10 player of the year asa senior at Southern california in 2002. Led the trojansto their second consecutive pac-10 championship andfinished his senior year with six top-five finishes inNcaa play, including four seconds…as a senior at KentDenver School in Englewood, co, won the colorado HighSchool State championship and was a second-team 1997aJga all-america…He also won the 1997 Junior Worldchampionships (he and father craig are the only father/sonchampions in the history of the event).PeRSonAL:the older son of 1982 masters champion and 13-timepga tour winner craig Stadler. craig caddied for Kevinin his 2002 colorado open victory. Just minutes after theelder Stadler won the Bank of america championship onthe champions tour in 2004, son Kevin won the Lake Eriecharity classic on the Nationwide tour, making them thefirst father-son duo to accomplish such a feat since BobDuval won the Emerald coast classic on the championstour and son David tHE pLaYErS championship on march28, 1999.henrik stensoneXeMPt StAtUS: 2009 tHE pLaYErS championshipwinner (through 2014)FULL nAMe: Henrik StensonHeiGHt: 6-2WeiGHt: 190BiRtHDAte: april 5, 1976BiRtHPLAce: gothenburg, SwedenReSiDence: Dubai, united arab EmiratesPLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................71.15 (122)Driving Distance ...........................................290.2 (72)Driving accuracy percentage .......................62.96% (108)greens in regulation percentage ................67.95% (70)putting average ...........................................1.779 (91)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 65–2 times, most recent puertorico open presented by Banco popular/3career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 61–2008 Frys.com open/2Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $448,800–2009 Wyndham championship/t2career High official World Rank: after 2006 Nissanopen/92FAMiLY: Wife, Emma; Lisa (2007), Karl (2010)SPeciAL inteReStS: movies, music, deep-sea fishing,fast cars, skiing, snorkelingtURneD PRoFeSSionAL: 1999JoineD toUR: 2007, 2010PGA toUR VictoRieS (2):2007 World golf championships-accenture match playchampionship. 2009 tHE pLaYErS championship.inteRnAtionAL VictoRieS (8):2000 DEXIa-BIL Luxembourg open [Eurchall], gula Sidomagrand prix [Eurchall], 2nd cuba challenge tour grandFinal [Eurchall]. 2001 Benson and Hedges Internationalopen [Eur]. 2004 the Heritage at Woburn [Eur]. 2006commercialbank Qatar masters [Eur], BmW Internationalopen [Eur]. 2007 Dubai Desert classic [Eur]. 2008 Nedbankchallenge.otHeR VictoRieS (1):2008 omEga mission Hills World cup [with robertKarlsson].BeSt 2010 PGA toUR FiniSH:t3—British open.2010 SeASon:recorded his first top-10 of the season in his ninth start, at3 finish at the British open. Has five top 10s in his last 10major championship appearances: 2010 British open (t3),2009 pga championship (t6), 2009 u.S. open (ninth), 2008pga championship (t4) and 2008 British open (t3).cAReeR HiGHLiGHtS:2009: Won tHE pLaYErS championship with a final-round66 and recorded four top-10 finishes on the pga tour...Fired a bogey-free, 6-under 66 in the final round at tpcSawgrass to claim a four-stroke victory over Ian poulter attHE pLaYErS championship for his second win on the pgatour. trailed alex cejka by five shots entering the finalround and finished at 12-under 276. the 66 matched thebest score of the final round—aaron Baddeley also hada 66 with the first tee time of the day—and was nearly7.5 strokes better than the field average. Stenson missedonly one fairway in the final round...all four career top-10finishes in major championships have been posted in hislast five starts, including a t10 at the 2009 u.S. open atBethpage Black, t6 at the 2009 pga championship, t4 atthe 2008 pga championship and t3 at the 2008 Britishopen. Shot a final-round 68 at Bethpage Black to moveinto the top 10 at the 2009 u.S. open...also finished t3 atShell Houston open, making 10 straight pars to close thetournament with a final-round 70 when only four roundsin the 60s were recorded on the final day...teamed withrobert Karlsson for Sweden in defense of 2008 title atthe omEga mission Hills World cup. 2008: Finished thirdat the World golf championships-accenture match playchampionship, defeating Justin Leonard in the consolationfinal 3 and 2. Fell to eventual champion tiger Woods inthe semifinals, 2-up...recorded his second top-10 of theseason with a t10 at tHE pLaYErS...making his 14th startin a major championship, posted first career top-10 finishwith a t3 at the British open...In the next major championship,the pga championship, finished t4. Was one strokeback after 54 holes, but a closing 2-over 72 dropped himto t4, his second top-10 in 14 major championship starts...In December teamed with robert Karlsson for Sweden towin the omEga mission Hills World cup in china. the followingweek, won the Nedbank challenge in South africaby nine strokes. 2007: Withstood challenges of three-timechampion Ernie Els, No. 1-ranked tiger Woods, fellowSwede Niclas Fasth and England’s ross Fisher to win theDubai Desert classic at the Emirates gc. a 7-foot birdie putton the final green gave him a one-stroke victory over Els,his playing partner for four days. In first start as an officialmember of the pga tour, won the accenture match playchampionship, defeating defending champion geoff ogilvy,2 and 1, in the 36-hole championship match. Fourth playerfrom Sweden to win on tour. First tour rookie to win in2007 and the third player to collect first tour title at theaccenture match play championship. 2006: Finished theequivalent of 104th on the pga tour money list, with his$821,678 total in 10 events entered. as a non-member,needed to collect more than the 125th place finisher on the2006 tour money list in order to earn his card for the 2007season...Finished t3 in his first career start at tHE pLaYErSchampionship. Was two strokes back of the leader through54 holes, but closed with 1-over 73...Shared the secondroundlead at 8-under 136 with three others at the pgachampionship. Finished t14...Won the BmW Internationalopen on the European tour in a one-hole playoff over retiefgoosen and padraig Harrington...Won the commercialbankQatar masters earlier in the year. Finished the seasonsixth on the order of merit...paired with carl petterssonto represent Sweden at the World golf championships-World cup in Barbados. 2005: picked up his first top-10 infive career starts in a tour event, a t3 at the World golfchampionships-american Express championship at Hardingpark in San Francisco...totaled eight top-10s, includingthree seconds, on the European tour to place eighth onthe order of merit. 2004: Won the Heritage at Woburn onthe European tour. 2001: captured first European tour titlePLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................72.02Driving Distance ...........................................283.6Driving accuracy percentage .......................68.43%greens in regulation percentage ................62.50%putting average ...........................................1.826(N/a)(N/a)(N/a)(N/a)(N/a)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 66–crowne plaza Invitational atcolonial/4career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 66–5 times, mostrecent 2010 crowne plaza Invitational at colonial/4Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $1,710,000–2009 tHE pLaYErS championship/1career High official World Rank: after 2009 Valerotexas open/42-184 PGA TOUR 2011 Guidepgatour.com