2004 PGA TOUR Media Guide

JIM FURYK (FYUR-ik)EXEMPT STATUS: Winner, 2003 U.S. Open (through 2008)FULL NAME: James Michael Furyk HEIGHT: 6-2 WEIGHT: 200BIRTHDATE: May 12, 1970BIRTHPLACE: West Chester, PARESIDENCE: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL FAMILY: Wife, Tabitha; Caleigh Lynn (6/24/02), Tanner James (12/12/03)EDUCATION: University of ArizonaSPECIAL INTERESTS: All sportsTURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1992 Q SCHOOL: 1993Nationwide Tour AlumnusPGA TOUR VICTORIES (9): 1995 Las Vegas Invitational. 1996 United Airlines HawaiianOpen. 1998 Las Vegas Invitational. 1999 Las Vegas Invitational. 2000 Doral-Ryder Open.2001 Mercedes Championships. 2002 Memorial Tournament. 2003 U.S. OpenChampionship, Buick Open.NATIONWIDE TOUR VICTORIES (1): 1993 Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic.INTERNATIONAL VICTORIES (1): 1997 Argentine Open.OTHER VICTORIES (1): 1998 Fred Meyer Challenge [with David Duval].BEST 2003 PGA TOUR FINISHES: 1—U.S. Open Championship, Buick Open; 2—FordChampionship at Doral; T3—100th Western Open presented by Golf Digest; 4—MastersTournament, THE PLAYERS Championship; 5—EDS Byron Nelson Championship, AT&TPebble Beach National Pro-Am, The Honda Classic, Bank of America Colonial; T6—Mercedes Championships, WGC-NEC Invitational; 8—THE TOUR Championship presentedby Coca-Cola; T9—WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship; T10—MCI Heritage.2003 SEASON: Collected first major championship of his career, the U.S. Open at OlympiaFields near Chicago. Has earned victories in six consecutive seasons, second to TigerWoods (8) on the current list…Became 57th player to make the U.S. Open his first careermajor championship. Shared second-round and held third-round lead. Set 36-hole record(133), along with Vijay Singh. Set 54-hole mark (200) and tied 72-hole record (272). The$1,000,008 check, largest of his career, pushed him over the $3-million mark in season’searnings for first time in his career…Claimed fifth consecutive top-10 at MercedesChampionships with T6 finish. Is the only player to have played all five MercedesChampionships since the event moved to Hawaii in 1999. Shared first-round lead witheventual champion Ernie Els after opening with a 9-under-par 64…Was 36-hole leader atAT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am before finishing T5, five shots behind championDavis Love III…Four rounds in the 60s produced runner-up finish at the Ford Championshipat Doral. Playoff record dropped to 1-4 after Scott Hoch sank birdie putt on the third extrahole. Playoff was suspended due to darkness on Sunday night while both players were onthe green of the second extra hole. Paycheck pushed him over the $1-million mark for theseventh straight season…Earned fifth top-10 in seven starts with T5 finish at The HondaClassic, with four rounds in the 60s…Posted his third consecutive top-five with a T4 finishat THE PLAYERS Championship. Has not missed a cut on his home course since 1995, thefirst year he played in the tournament…Finished fourth at the Masters, tying his careerbestfinish at Augusta National (1998)…Led PGA TOUR in top-10 finishes with eight afterT10 at MCI Heritage at Harbour Town GL…After missing his first cut of the season at theWachovia Championship followed it up with an opening-round 64 at the Byron NelsonChampionship. Trip to Texas in May produced back-to-back top-5s at the EDS ByronNelson Championship (fifth) and Bank of America Colonial (T5)…Finished T3 at the 100thWestern Open, seven shots behind Tiger Woods…With four rounds in the 60s, capturedBuick Open for second victory of 2003 and jumped to a career-best No. 3 in the OfficialWorld Golf Ranking. After opening 68-66, took the 54-hole lead with third-round 65. Witha final-round 68, completed two-stroke victory over a group of four players that includedTiger Woods…Finished T6 at WGC-NEC Invitational for career-best and TOUR-leading14th top-10 of the season. Previous career high was 13 in 1997…Ended the season withsolo eighth at the TOUR Championship, collected $192,000 to surpass the $5-million markfor the first time in his career. Becomes only the fourth player to earn over $5 million in asingle season in the history of the PGA TOUR…Played on his third U.S Presidents Cupteam… Represented United States in the WGC-World Cup for the first time, playing withJustin Leonard.CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 2002: Opened the year with a solo fourth in defense of 2001Mercedes Championships title…The next week, T7 at the Sony Open in Hawaii…FinishedT9 in WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship after losing to Kevin Sutherland (2 and 1)in the third round. Defeated Toshi Izawa and Billy Andrade in first two rounds…Won theMemorial Tournament thanks to a final-round 65 that included a chip-in for birdie on thepar-3 12th hole and an eagle from the front bunker on the par-5 15th hole. Won by twostrokes over John Cook and David Peoples, marking the fifth consecutive season with avictory. Recorded third-round ace with 5-iron from 192 yards on No. 4…Made his thirdappearance as a member of the U.S. Ryder Cup team and compiled a 1-2-2 record…Sharedthe second-round lead with Charles Howell III and held the third-round lead at the InvensysClassic at Las Vegas before finishing fourth. Began the tournament with 79 consecutiveholes without a bogey. 2001: Earned sixth PGA TOUR title at Mercedes Championships.Was four strokes down to start the final round in Maui. Holed a 10-foot birdie putt on 72ndhole in Kapalua that put him in the lead as Rory Sabbatini missed three-foot birdie thatwould have forced a playoff. Victory came after slight cartilage tear in right wrist forcedhim to withdraw from 2000 TOUR Championship, 2001 WGC-American ExpressChampionship and Accenture Match Play Championship. Suffered injury the previous fallwhile trying to intercept a pass in the parking lot of a Baltimore Ravens-Pittsburgh SteelersNFL game…Lost in a playoff on the seventh extra hole at the WGC-NEC Invitational. Withscores of 65-66-66, he held the lead for the first three rounds. Closing 71 produced playoffwith Tiger Woods, who closed with 69. Holed bunker shot for par on first playoff hole toextend the match. 2000: Posted eight top-10s, including a victory at the Doral-Ryder Open.For the second time in his career, missed only one cut all season, at SEI PennsylvaniaClassic. In 1999, missed cut at AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am…Opened the seasonwith T4 at Mercedes Championships…Earned fifth PGA TOUR victory at the Doral-RyderOpen. Shared first-round lead after opening with a 7-under-par 65. Was three strokes backof Franklin Langham after 54 holes. Trailed Langham by six with seven holes to play. Shot30 on back nine for a final-round 65 and equaled tournament record with 23-under-par265…Member of his second U.S. Presidents Cup Team. Presidents Cup record was 3-1-0for a two-year total of 4-4-0. 1999: Earned third Las Vegas Invitational title, becoming firstsuccessful defender. Victory started with rounds of 67-64-63 for a share of 54-hole lead.After awakening to early morning earthquake, played in 40 mph winds and shot 71 to builda three-stroke lead. Final-round 66 good enough to edge Jonathan Kaye by one stroke…Amember of victorious U.S. Ryder Cup team, notching a key 4-and-3 singles victory overSergio Garcia in Sunday’s matches. 1998: His 12 top-10s matched David Duval for secondmost on TOUR (one behind Tiger Woods) and his $2,054,334, good for third on TOUR moneylist…Made cut in 24 of his 28 appearances, including a win, two seconds, two thirds andthree fourths…Closed year by becoming the first player to win the Las Vegas Invitationaltwice. Rounds of 67-68-69-63 put him in first place after 72 holes, three strokes ahead ofMark Calcavecchia. Closed with a 68 to Calcavecchia’s 66 for one-stroke victory. 1997: Setthen-TOUR record for most money earned without a victory with $1,619,480, fourth onmoney list…His 13 top-10 finishes, including eight straight, matched Davis Love III for moston TOUR…Nearly had successful defense at United Airlines Hawaiian Open, shooting 66-68 on weekend to force playoff with Paul Stankowski and Mike Reid. Stankowski wonplayoff…Had an impressive stretch of top-10s in majors that year: T5 at U.S. Open, fourthat British Open and T6 at PGA Championship. 1996: Kept winning streak alive in Hawaiithree months later with second official victory at United Airlines Hawaiian Open. Aftertrailing by one stroke through 54 holes, shot final-round 69 to take clubhouse lead, only tosee Brad Faxon hole 50-foot eagle putt on 72nd hole to force playoff. Birdied third extrahole for victory. 1995: Recorded first PGA TOUR victory at Las Vegas Invitational. Grabbedshare of lead with David Edwards after third-round 65 at TPC at Summerlin. Followingfourth-round 67, shared lead with Billy Mayfair. Went on to one-stroke victory overMayfair…Three weeks later, earned unofficial victory at Lincoln-Mercury KapaluaInternational. 1994: Recorded three top-10s as a rookie, including T7 at Northern TelecomOpen, his first start of the year. 1993: Member of the Nationwide Tour, won Mississippi GulfCoast Classic that year in playoff over Bob Friend…Qualified for TOUR by finishing T37 atQualifying Tournament. Amateur: Twice named All-Pac 10 Conference and All-Americawhile at University of Arizona.PERSONAL: Possesses one of PGA TOUR’s less orthodox swings…His father, Mike, hasbeen his only swing instructor…Started putting cross-handed at age 7…Never playedhigh school football, although did play basketball as a sophomore. Played midget footballuntil age 13…Owns a home on The Plantation Course at Kapalua, home of the MercedesChampionships.PGA TOUR CAREER SUMMARY PLAYOFF RECORD: 1-4Year Events Played Cuts Made 1st 2nd 3rd Top 10 Top 25 Earnings Rank1988A 11990A 11991A 11993 11994 31 17 3 7 $236,603 781995 31 22 1 3 10 535,380 331996 28 24 1 3 13 738,950 261997 27 24 3 1 13 17 1,619,480 41998 28 24 1 2 2 12 19 2,054,334 31999 25 24 1 1 8 17 1,827,593 122000 25 24 1 1 8 15 1,940,519 172001 24 19 1 2 8 16 2,540,734 132002 25 19 1 9 14 2,363,250 142003 27 25 2 1 1 15 22 5,182,865 4Total 275 222 9 9 5 82 150 19,039,707NATIONWIDE TOUR1993 25 13 1 1 3 6 $58,240 261994 1 1 1 1 3,815 153Total 26 14 1 1 4 7 62,055COMBINED ALL-TIME MONEY (3 TOURS): $19,101,762SECTION 2 / PLAYER BIOSWWW.PGATOUR.COM 2004 PGA TOUR Media Guide / 2-57