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FULLY-eXeMPt PLAYeRSJim Furyk (Continued)member of victorious u.S. ryder cup team, notching a key4-and-3 singles victory over Sergio garcia in Sunday’smatches. missed only one cut, at the at&t pebble BeachNational pro-am. 1998: made cut in 24 of his 28 appearances,including a win, two seconds, two thirds and threefourths...closed year by becoming the first player to win theLas Vegas Invitational twice. rounds of 67-68-69-63 puthim in first place after 72 holes, three strokes ahead ofmark calcavecchia. closed with a 68 to calcavecchia’s 66for one-stroke victory. 1997: Set then-tour record for mostmoney earned without a victory with $1,619,480, fourth onmoney list...Nearly had successful defense at unitedairlines Hawaiian open, losing in a playoff to paulStankowski...also placed t5 at u.S. open, fourth at Britishopen and t6 at pga championship. 1996: Won unitedairlines Hawaiian open, birdieing third playoff hole to topBrad Faxon, who made a 50-foot eagle putt on the 72ndhole to force playoff. 1995: recorded first tour victory atLas Vegas Invitational. grabbed share of lead with DavidEdwards after third-round 65 at tpc Summerlin. Followingfourth-round 67, shared lead with Billy mayfair. Went on toone-stroke victory over mayfair...three weeks later, earnedunofficial victory at Lincoln-mercury Kapalua International.1994: recorded three top-10s as a rookie, including t7 atNorthern telecom open, his first start of the year. 1993:member of the Nationwide tour, won mississippi gulfcoast classic in playoff over Bob Friend...Qualified fortour by finishing t37 at Qualifying tournament. Amateur:twice named all-pac 10 conference and all-america atuniversity of arizona.PeRSonAL:possesses one of the pga tour’s less orthodox swings.His father, mike, has been his only swing instructor…Started putting cross-handed at age 7…Never played highschool football, although did play basketball as a sophomore.played midget football until age 13…owns a homeon the plantation course at Kapalua, home of the Hyundaitournament of champions.sergio garciaeXeMPt StAtUS: Winner, 2008 pLaYErSchampionship (through 2013)FULL nAMe: Sergio garcia FernandezHeiGHt: 5-10WeiGHt: 160BiRtHDAte: January 9, 1980BiRtHPLAce: castellon, SpainReSiDence: Borriol, SpainPLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................69.83 (5)Driving Distance ...........................................276.0 (179)Driving accuracy percentage .......................71.01% (10)greens in regulation percentage ................67.12% (93)putting average ...........................................1.767 (56)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 64–World golf championships-Bridgestone Invitational/4career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 62–5 times,most recent 2009 Justin timberlake Shriners Hospitals forchildren open/4Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $1,350,000–2010 tHE tour championship presentedby coca–cola/1career High official World Rank: after 2007 theBarclays/2FAMiLY: SingleSPeciAL inteReStS: real madrid Fc (soccer), kids,tennistURneD PRoFeSSionAL: 1999JoineD toUR: 1999Section 2 Player BiograPhiesPGA toUR VictoRieS (7):2001 mastercard colonial, Buick classic. 2002 mercedeschampionships. 2004 EDS Byron Nelson championship,Buick classic. 2005 Booz allen classic. 2008 tHE pLaYErSchampionship.inteRnAtionAL VictoRieS (11):1997 catalonian open championship. 1999 murphy’s Irishopen [Eur], Linde german masters [Eur]. 2001 tropheeLancome [Eur], Nedbank golf challenge [Saf]. 2002canarias open de Espana [Eur], Kolon cup Korean open[asia]. 2003 Nedbank golf challenge [Saf]. 2004 mallorcaclassic [Eur]. 2005 omega European masters [Eur]. 2008castello masters [Eur].otHeR VictoRieS (1):1999 Dunhill cup [with miguel angel Jimenez and Josemaria olazabal].BeSt 2010 PGA toUR FiniSH:4—World golf championships-accenture match playchampionship.2010 SeASon:managed just one top-10 finish in 15 starts, placingfourth in his second start of the season, at the Worldgolf championships-accenture match play championship.Lost in the semifinals and then suffered a 5-and-4 lossto camilo Villegas in the third-place match. He advancedfurther in the tournament than any of his previous eightstarts there…announced a two-month break from golfafter missing the cut at the pga championship…Served asa vice-captain during a one-point victory by the Europeanteam over the united States at the ryder cup.cAReeR HiGHLiGHtS:2009: Began pga tour season at accenture match playchampionship ranked career-high No. 2 in official World golfranking...posted the 15th top-10 finish of his career in a majorchampionship with a t10 at the u.S. open. posted three evenparrounds of 70 and a third-round, 2-over 72 to finish sixstrokes behind champion Lucas glover. It was his first top-10of the season (nine starts)...Finished fourth at the Wyndhamchampionship (67-64-64-70) after sharing the 54-hole leadwith chris riley. Bunker shot on the last hole rolled within oneinch of the hole, which would have put him in a four-manplayoff. the only other time he put together back-to-backrounds of 64 or better was at the 2007 tour championship(second and third rounds). His 195 total after 54 holes was acareer best, topping his 196 at the 2007 tour championship...completed his pga tour playoff run with a t6 finish at theBmW championship, posting four rounds of par or better.Finished the season 38th in FedExcup standings and No. 74on the money list. 2008: at age 28 and in his 10th season onthe pga tour, recorded his seventh career victory (pLaYErSchampionship) and made his fifth appearance in the rydercup. ranked third in the FedExcup, thanks in large part to 18made cuts in 19 starts, including six top-10s...Ended the longestvictory drought of his career by making a clutch par puttto force a playoff and hitting the island-green 17th on the firstextra hole to defeat paul goydos in tHE pLaYErSchampionship. His first victory in three years and 53 pgatour events was keyed by leading the field in Drivingaccuracy and greens in regulation. made a 45-foot birdieputt on the par-4 14th to get back in the game and a 7-footpar putt on the 18th hole for a 1-under 71 and a 5-under 283total. goydos, playing in the final group, missed a 15-foot parputt on the last hole for the win. It was the first playoff at tHEpLaYErS since 1987. on the playoff hole, goydos hit a wedgejust short into the water and made double bogey beforegarcia hit his tee shot within 4 feet and two-putted for thevictory...posted his second top-10 of the season with a t4finish at the Stanford St. Jude championship, including abogey-free final-round 66 that left him one stroke out of aplayoff...Finished runner-up to padraig Harrington at the pgachampionship, his third runner-up finish in a major championshipevent. Was tied with Harrington with two holes remaining,but finished par-bogey to Harrington’s birdie-par conclusion.It was also his ninth top-five in major championshipstarts...In his next start, lost on the second hole of a playoff atthe Barclays to Vijay Singh. Singh made birdie on the par-517th hole after garcia drove left and hit his second shotbehind a tree on the way to a par. Kevin Sutherland waseliminated on the first playoff hole where garcia made a27-foot birdie putt only to be topped by Singh’s 26-footer. allthree players finished at 8-under 276 at ridgewood cc inparamus, NJ...t5 at the Deutsche Bank championship thefollowing week, remaining second in the FedExcup standings.It was his third consecutive top-five finish and continued aPLAYeR StAtiSticS2010 PGA TOUR STATISTICSScoring average ...........................................71.08 (113)Driving Distance ...........................................292.7 (47)Driving accuracy percentage .......................63.75% (95)greens in regulation percentage ................66.13% (123)putting average ...........................................1.809 (159)MISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 67–4 times, most recent thegreenbrier classic/3career PGA toUR Low Round/Round: 62–2 times, mostrecent 2002 World golf championships-american Expresschampionship/4Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $1,710,000–2008 tHE pLaYErS championship/1career High official World Rank: after 2009 the Hondaclassic/2pgatour.com PGA TOUR 2011 Guide2-67