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FULLY-eXeMPt PLAYeRSopened with a career-best 10-under 62 at Spyglass Hill gcand was the first-round leader at the at&t pebble BeachNational pro am. Finished t7...Finished t9 at the accenturematch play championship, defeating richard green andShigeki maruyama before falling to retief goosen in thethird round...captured second career tour title at theHonda classic with rounds of 72-67-68-69—276 (12-under). co-leader through 54 holes with Billy mayfair.Nursing a one-stroke lead over geoff ogilvy on the 72ndhole, hit 5-iron approach to 4 feet from 199 yards and convertedthe birdie for a two-shot victory. Earned career-bestpaycheck of $990,000 and jumped into the top-10 in theofficial World golf ranking (No. 10) for the first time in hiscareer...Shared the 54-hole lead (14-under 202) with tigerWoods at the pga championship but final-round 2-over 74left him tied for third, six strokes behind Woods. alsoshared the 36-hole lead (8-under 136) with three others.the t3 matched his career-best finish in a major (2005masters). one of only 10 players who managed to make thecut in all four majors during the season...playing in hissecond ryder cup, had a 3-0-0 record for the victoriousEuropean team. career record in ryder cup is 5-1-1...posted t6 finish at the american Express championship inLondon, his third top-10 in a World golf championshipsevent during the year...Earned a spot in the field at tHEtour championship for the second time in his five-yearcareer, finished t5...Selected to represent England withDavid Howell at the Barbados World cup...Fired a bogeyfree,final-round 64 in mid-December to come from sixstrokes back and win the target World challenge. 2005:Finished runner-up for the second straight season at theBuick Invitational. Shared the third-round lead at 14-under202 with tom Lehman. closed with 1-over 73 to finishedthree strokes back of tiger Woods...picked up second runner-upfinish of the season with a t2 at tHE pLaYErSchampionship. Shared second-round lead with LeeWestwood, tim Herron and Joe Durant at 10-under 134and held third-round lead by one stroke over Durant at12-under 204. Final-round 4-over 76 after playing 33 holesluke Donald (Continued)on monday left him one behind Fred Funk. missed 25-footbirdie putt on 72nd hole...Finished t3 in his masters debutto lead first-time participants. Final-round 69 includedeagles on No. 13 and No. 15. 2004: Won two times on theEuropean tour and collected four top-10s on the pgatour. Earned a spot on the European ryder cup team afterhis consistent play on both the pga tour and the Europeantour...Lost in a three-way playoff (along with chris riley) toJohn Daly at the Buick Invitational in fourth start of season.Sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to force a sudden-deathplayoff. on the first extra hole, Donald and rileyboth missed birdie putts inside 10 feet while Daly splasheda 100-foot bunker shot to tap-in range for birdie to claim thetitle...claimed his first European tour victory after cardinga 3-under 69 in the final round for a five-shot victory at theScandinavian masters. collected a second victory on theEuropean tour at the omega European masters, just aweek before making his first appearance in the ryder cupmatches in the united States...teamed with paul casey towin the World cup in Spain in mid-November. 2003: postedeight top-25 finishes in the 17 cuts made for the season.2002: First start as a member of the pga tour was a t13at the Sony open in Hawaii...Earned first tour title inrookie season at Southern Farm Bureau classic, joiningJonathan Byrd as only rookies to win that season.tournament reduced to 54 holes due to unplayable conditions.carded rounds of 66-68-67—201 to win by one overDeane pappas. trailed Brad Elder by one after 18 holes andtwo through 36 holes. Birdied Nos. 15-17 and finished with4-under-par 32 on back nine Saturday afternoon to take thelead from Elder for the first time. play was suspended priorto Sunday tee time of 10:10 a.m., and was deemed a54-hole tournament on monday morning. 2001: turnedprofessional in august, making his debut at the reno-tahoeopen on a sponsor exemption. Earned sponsor exemptionsinto six other events and managed to make four cuts. Bestfinish was a t18 at the Bell canadian open...only 2001college graduate to make it through all three stages ofQualifying tournament. Amateur: Led the gB&I Walkercup team to a 15-9 victory in 1999 and 121⁄2-111⁄2 victoryin 2001, going 7-1 in match play over two competitions...Won the 1999 Ncaa individual title. two-time Big tenindividual champion (1999 and 2000). Won the 1999 FredHaskins award for top collegiate golfer. Won 1999 JackNicklaus award as collegiate men’s golf’s player of theyear, which earned him a spot in the field at the 2000memorial tournament, where he finished t51. Broke tigerWoods’ golfstat cup record for lowest stroke average(70.45) in 1999. three-time (1999, 2000, 2001) first-teamall-american.PeRSonAL:Brother christian caddied for Luke through 2009. christiannow caddies for paul casey…an avid painter. Earneddegree in art theory and practice at Northwesternuniversity. Donated one of his paintings to a pgatour.com auction and the winning bid was $1,640, which wassplit between pga tour charities and junior golf charityin chicago.PLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................69.85 (7)Driving Distance ...........................................277.0 (177)Driving accuracy percentage .......................62.36% (120)greens in regulation percentage ................65.28% (152)putting average ...........................................1.751 (17)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 65–2 times, most recentDeutsche Bank championship/1career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 62–2006 at&tpebble Beach National pro-am/1Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $990,000–2006 the Honda classic/1career High official World Rank: after 2010 St. Judeclassic presented by Smith & Nephew/6Section 2 Player BiograPhiesJason DufnereXeMPt StAtUS: 80th on 2010 money listFULL nAMe: Jason christopher DufnerHeiGHt: 5-10WeiGHt: 180BiRtHDAte: march 24, 1977BiRtHPLAce: cleveland, oHReSiDence: auburn, aLFAMiLY: SingleeDUcAtion: auburn university (2000, Economics)SPeciAL inteReStS: all sportstURneD PRoFeSSionAL: 2000Q ScHooL: 2008nationwide tour Graduate (2003, 2006)BeSt PGA toUR cAReeR FiniSH:t2—2009 Deutsche Bank championship.nAtionWiDe toUR VictoRieS (2):2001 Wichita open. 2006 LaSalle Bank open.BeSt 2010 PGA toUR FiniSHeS:t5—pga championship; t7—Zurich classic of Neworleans.2010 SeASon:Finished No. 65 in the FedExcup standings, with two top-10finishes…First top-10 of the season came in 11th start, a t7at Zurich classic of New orleans…after missing the cut inhis only other pga championship start in 2009, reboundedwith a t5 at Whistling Straits. tied for low-round honorswith a second-round, 6-under-par 66.cAReeR HiGHLiGHtS:2009: turned in his most successful season on tour withan 11th place finish in the FedExcup...Six top-10 finisheshighlighted a season in which he surpassed $2 million...Firsttop-10 of the year came with a t9 at the Honda classic inmarch...matched that t9 finish the following month at theZurich classic of New orleans thanks to three rounds in the60s...Finished t5 at the Quail Hollow championship, justthree strokes behind champion Sean o’Hair...got into tHEpLaYErS championship for the first time as an alternateand was third after 36 holes before finishing t32...cardedfinal-round 65 at tpc Southwind to finish t7 at the St.Jude classic...third top-10 came at the rBc canadian openat the end of July. thanks largely to a 9-under 63 in thesecond round of the rainy event, earned a t3...recordedhis best career tour finish with a t2 at Deutsche Bankchampionship, shooting a final-round 65 to post 16-under.PLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................71.02 (111)Driving Distance ...........................................281.9 (140)Driving accuracy percentage .......................69.24% (24)greens in regulation percentage ................66.67% (104)putting average ...........................................1.812 (163)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 64–2 times, most recent BobHope classic/3career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 63–3 times, mostrecent 2009 rBc canadian open/2Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $660,000–2009 Deutsche Bank championship/t2career High official World Rank: after 2009 children’smiracle Network classic/61pgatour.com PGA TOUR 2011 Guide2-49