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inteRnAtionAL PLAYeRSround at the Earth course to finish at 23-under 265 andwin the Dubai World championship. Earned $1.25 millionto hold off rory mcIlroy on the season-long money listand win the European tour’s first race to Dubai since itchanged from the order of merit. 2008: Finished No. 57 onthe pga tour money list, his best showing since finishingNo. 46 in 1998, but opted not to retain membership for2009...posted his best finish in a major championship witha third at the u.S. open, one stroke shy of the 18-hole tigerWoods-rocco mediate playoff. Had a long birdie try on the72nd hole to join the playoff. It was his third u.S. opentop-10 finish - third in 2008, t5 in 2000 and t7 in 1998...Finished t2 at the World golf championships-BridgestoneInvitational. Shared the third-round lead, but closed with1-under 69 to finish second...Finished third on the Europeantour order of merit...Had an 0-2-2 record in the ryder cupat Valhalla. 2007: captured his first European tour victoryin nearly four years at the Valle romano open de andaluciain Spain in early may. posted his second win at the QuinnDirect British masters. 2006: Named as a captain’s choicefor the 2006 European ryder cup team, and posted a3-0-2 record. Went 4-0-1 in the 2004 European rydercup victory, sharing the high point total with teammateSergio garcia. 2005: made only 15 starts on the tourbut managed to play on the weekend 12 times. Had fivetop-25 finishes, with his best effort a t17 at the Worldgolf championships-accenture match play championshipand t17 at pga championship. Shared second-round leadat tHE pLaYErS championship at 10-under 134 with LukeDonald, tim Herron and Joe Durant, finished t22. recordedfive top-10 finishes on the European tour, including a t5 atthe Nissan Irish open and caltex open. 2004: posted hisbest finish in a major championship and his fifth top-10lee Westwood (Continued)in 28 major championship appearances with his fourthplaceshowing at the British open in Scotland, the highestfinish by a European player at royal troon...posted fourrounds in the 60s at the World golf championships-NEcInvitational, just the ninth player in the event’s six-yearhistory to do so, in posting t9 finish...placed second twiceon the European tour. Went 4-0-1 in the European rydercup victory, sharing the high point total with teammateSergio garcia. 2003: Ended three years out of the limelightwith an emotional victory in the BmW International openwith a back-nine 30 in the final round. a month later, beatErnie Els by a shot to win the dunhill links championshipat St. andrews. 2000: Began year with win at DimensionData pro-am in South africa, which meant he had won atournament on every continent—africa, asia, australasia,Europe and North america...captured the European tourorder of merit in the last tournament of the year. Winningsof €3,125,146 set a European tour record after he capturedfive official titles. He finished €407,181 ahead of Darrenclarke after overcoming a €107,768 deficit in the finalevent of the year, the World golf championships-americanExpress championship. Successfully defended his SmurfitEuropean open title to go with wins in the Deutsche BankSap open-tpc of Europe, the compaq European grand prix,the Volvo Scandinavian masters, the Belgacom open andthe cisco World match play championship. Joined SeveBallesteros, Nick Faldo and colin montgomerie as the onlyplayers to win six times in a season in Europe. 1999: Wonthree times on the European tour and finished second onthe order of merit behind montgomerie. 1998: made hisbig breakthrough in the united States when he capturedthe Freeport mcDermott classic...also won four times onthe European tour and finished third behind montgomerieand clarke. 1997: Won the Volvo masters andalucia onthe European tour. 1996: picked up first European tourwin at the Volvo Scandinavian masters in a playoff. 1994:Finished 43rd on the European tour’s order of merit in hisrookie season.PeRSonAL:took up the game at age 13 with a half set bought by hisgrandparents. math teacher father, John, took up game atsame time to give his son encouragement…played rugby,cricket and soccer during his school days…Big supporterof Nottingham Forest Fc…married Laurae coltart, sisterof fellow European tour player, andrew, in January 1999.PLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................69.31 ....... (N/a)Driving Distance ...........................................298.7 ....... (N/a)Driving accuracy percentage .......................61.30% .... (N/a)greens in regulation percentage ................69.30% .... (N/a)putting average ...........................................1.795 ....... (N/a)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 63–St. Jude classic/1career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 63–2 times, mostrecent 2010 St. Jude classic/1Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $1,008,000–2010 St. Jude classic/1career High official World Rank: after 2010 children’smiracle Network classic/1Section 2 Player BiograPhiespgatour.com PGA TOUR 2011 Guide2-421