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otHeR PRoMinent PLAYeRSand his best showing since winning the 2007 Nationwidechildren’s Hospital Invitational when he t9 at the Southgeorgia classic. Bettered his georgia performance by postingthe lowest weekend scores at the Fort Smith classicto move to a t3...Earned top finish of the year with a t2at the preferred Health Systems Wichita open, where heplayed the front nine in 1-under for the week and the backnine in 19-under...Finished t8 at the oregon classic. postedpar-or-better scores in 23 of his final 26 rounds to close theyear. 2007: made the cut in 11 of 13 starts during his rookieseason on the Nationwide tour. Finished the season No.113 on the money list, with $46,926. Qualified for a spotin the Nationwide children’s Hospital Invitational when heearned first-team all-american honors at BYu. made goodon the invitation by winning the event by two strokes overchris Nallen and chad collins, becoming the first amateurto win a Nationwide tour title. He couldn’t accept the$126,000 first prize but did earn a full exemption for theremainder of the season and all of 2008. three days later,he made the decision to forego his senior season at BYuDaniel summerhays (Continued)PGA toUR cAReeR SUMMARY PLAYoFF RecoRD: 0-0events cuts Fedexcup Pts/ earnings/Year Played Made 1st 2nd 3rd top 10 top 25 Rank Rank2010 1total 1nAtionwiDe toURYear events Played cuts Made 1st 2nd 3rd top 10 top 25 earnings/Rank2001a 12007a 1 1 1 1 12007 12 10 1 4 $46,926/1132008 28 16 1 1 4 10 177,845/352009 26 12 2 3 70,540/812010 26 16 3 1 7 12 391,742/5total 94 55 1 4 2 15 30 687,054* Majors and world Golf championships are considered official on multiple tours*and turned professional. He only had three classes remainingto graduate. Went on to post four additional top-25finishes, including a t10 at the Northeast pennsylvaniaclassic. Amateur: completed his amateur career witha fourth-place showing at the Ncaa championship andbecame one of 10 players to earn first-team ping allamericanhonors. He had the second-best scoring averageamong Division 1 players (69.95) and finished seventh orbetter in 10 of the cougars’ 14 events. Was the mountainWest conference Freshman of the Year in 2003...Shot a10-under 60 at golden Horseshoe gc in Williamsburg, Va,to tie the Ncaa single-round scoring record during the2006 golfweek/ping preview in october 2006.PeRSonAL:comes from a golf family…His older brother, Boyd, isa past Nationwide tour member, while his uncle BruceSummerhays was a champions tour player and his cousincarrie roberts is a former Lpga player who is now the headwomen’s golf coach at BYu…Lists his dad and brotherPGA toUR toP toURnAMent SUMMARYYear 10u.S. opencutPhil Tataurangi (TaT-tuh-run-gee)as his heroes. got his start in golf from his dad…Serveda two-year mormon mission from June 2003-June 2005in Santiago, chile, and is fluent in Spanish…cites winningthe 2007 Nationwide children’s Hospital Invitationalas his biggest thrill in golf. Was a member of the DavisHigh School (Kaysville, ut) state championship basketballteam…Is an avid ping-pong player. Says changing hischildren’s diapers is no problem since he has more than 20nieces and nephews…With his Spanish-language background,considered himself part of the Nationwide tour’s“Latin Federation,” which, at the time included miguelangel carballo, Sebastian Fernandez, Fabian gomez andEsteban toledo. Says he understands chilean slang perfectlybut “argentine or mexican slang words are a littledifferent.”…Lists cafe rio in Salt Lake city as his favoriterestaurant…His most-memorable christmas present wasthe first set of ping Eye-2 beryllium irons he received whenhe was 12.Section 2 Player BiograPhieseXeMPt StAtUS: past championFULL nAMe: phillip mikaera tataurangiHeiGHt: 5-10weiGHt: 175BiRtHDAte: october 31, 1971BiRtHPLAce: auckland, New ZealandReSiDence: taupo, New Zealand; plays out of capeKidnappers (Hawkes Bay, New Zealand)FAMiLY: Wife, melanie; Kahurangi Jack (6/30/00), taliaaniwaniwa (5/1/04)SPeciAL inteReStS: music, cooking, friends, sports,golf-course designtURneD PRoFeSSionAL: 1993Q ScHooL: 1993, 1996, 2001nationwide tour AlumnusPGA toUR VictoRieS (1):2002 Invensys classic at Las Vegas.nAtionwiDe toUR VictoRieS (1):1996 tri-cities open.inteRnAtionAL VictoRieS (1):1996 australian pga championship [aus].BeSt 2010 PGA toUR FiniSH:t45—puerto rico open.2010 SeASon:playing out of the past champion category, made the cutin two of four starts on the pga tour. Best finish was t45at the puerto rico open. also made six of 22 cuts on theNationwide tour.cAReeR HiGHLiGHtS:2009: missed both cuts in two starts on the pga tour.made eight of 22 cuts on the Nationwide tour, highlightedby a pair of top-10s…In just his second start of the year,finished t8 at the moonah classic…In June, recordeda second t8 at the Fort Smith classic. 2008: missed allsix cuts on the pga tour, but made five of 11 cuts onNationwide tour with a pair of top-25 finishes. 2007:played on his third consecutive major medical Extensionand was unable to earn $560,930 in two events in orderto play out the season on that extension…made two cutsin eight events and recorded one top-25 finish…Sufferedfrom a herniated disk at the base of his spine to causemedical Extensions which began in 2003. 2003: played inhis first masters, made the cut and finished t39. 2002: oneof a record 18 first-time winners, getting his victory at theInvensys classic of Las Vegas…Had heart surgery in July tocontrol a heart condition he has had for several years calledsuperventricular tachycardia, a rapid heartbeat that occursand disappears suddenly. the ailment is not life-threateningbut mirrors the symptoms of a heart attack. Steve Joneshad the procedure done in august 2002 and David tomsin November 2005…carded a final-round 10-under 62 tocapture first tour win at the Invensys classic at Las Vegas.Started the day five shots behind leader David Duval, butposted 10 birdies without a bogey to claim a one-strokevictory at 29-under-par 330 over Stuart appleby and JeffSluman in 90-hole event. 2001: Limited to 12 tour eventsPLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................72.93Driving Distance ...........................................274.2Driving accuracy percentage .......................48.57%greens in regulation percentage ................47.78%putting average ...........................................1.767(N/a)(N/a)(N/a)(N/a)(N/a)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 66–St. Jude classic/1career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 62–2002 Invensysclassic at Las Vegas/5Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $900,000–2002 Invensys classic at Las Vegas/1career High official world Rank: after 2003 at&tpebble Beach National pro-am/64pgatour.com PGA TOUR 2011 Guide2-367