The Reserve Club at Woodside Aiken

Fuzzy Zoeller

EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31 on All-Time Money List

FULL NAME: Frank Urban Zoeller, Jr.

BIRTHDATE: November 11, 1951

BIRTHPLACE: New Albany, IN

RESIDENCE: New Albany, IN plays out of Naples National, Naples, FL

FAMILY: Wife, Diane: Sunnye Noel (5/5/79),

Heide Leigh (8/23/81), Gretchen Marie

(3/27/84), Miles Remington (6/1/89)/1/89)

EDUCATION: Edison Junior College, Ft. Myers, FL and

University of Houston

SPECIAL INTERESTS: All Sports, golf course design

TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1973

JOINED CHAMPIONS TOUR: 2002

PGA Victories

(10) 1979 Andy Williams-San Diego Open Invitational, Masters Tournament. 1981 Colonial National Invitation. 1983 Sea Pines Heritage, Panasonic Las Vegas Pro Celebrity Classic. 1984 U.S. Open Championship. 1985 Hertz Bay Hill Classic. 1986 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Sea Pines Heritage, Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic.

Champions Tour Victories

(2) 2002 Senior PGA Championship. 2004 MasterCard Championship.

Other Victories

(6) 1972 Florida State Junior College Championship (indiv). 1973 Indiana State Amateur. 1985 Skins Game. 1986 Skins Game. 1987 Merrill Lynch Shoot-Out Championship. 2003 Tylenol Par-3 Challenge.

Career Highlights

Won his first event on the Champions Tour in just over 19 months when he started the 2004 season with a come-from-beyond victory at the MasterCard Championship. Shot 64 in the final round and out dueled Dana Quigley down the stretch, thanks to birdies on the last three holes, including a clutch 18-foot putt on No. 18 for the win. Had 23 total birdies for the week...Made a strong run at another victory at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am a month later. Birdied 11 of his first 14 holes, including seven straight, at the TPC of Tampa Bay on Sunday and briefly held the lead before a bogey on the final hole eventually left him in a T3. Final-round 61 was a career best and equaled the TPC of Tampa Bay course record...Voted as the Champions Tour’s February Player of the Month...Shot 6-under 29 on the front side of Glen Oaks during the second round of the Allianz Championship, a nine-hole record at the course...Had strong performance at the U.S. Senior Open, where he finished T7 at Bellerive CC...Other top-10 finish was a T6 at the Blue Angels Classic near Pensacola in April...Showed some marked improvement with his putting statistics from the previous season. Moved from 69^th (29.98) to 17^th (29.13) in Putts Per Round and his Putting average dropped from 56^th in 2003 to 22^nd...Made his 26^th appearance at the Masters but did not make the cut.

Career Highlights

2003: In 22 starts netted $741,830 and was 26^th on the final money list, earning himself a second straight trip to the season-ending Charles Schwab Cub Championship...Got off to a good start in his first outing of the season. Opened with a third-place finish at the MasterCard Championship. Moved into contention with a course-record-tying, 9-under-par 63 in the second round, but could not hold off a late charge by Dana Quigley on Sunday and finished three strokes back...Had two strong performances in major championships...Made a spirited defense of his Senior PGA Championship title and was the only player in the field to shoot par or better for all four rounds. Was leading early in the final round, but eventually finished T3 at Aronimink GC, three strokes behind winner John Jacobs...Finished T4 in his next start at the U.S. Senior Open in June, where he was under par in three of his four rounds...Had another good effort at the SBC Championship at Oak Hills CC in San Antonio in October when he was T4, one year after finishing T6 in the final full-field event of the season...Made his 25^th appearance at the Masters but did not make the cut...Easily won the Tylenol Par-3 Challenge at Treetops Resort in Michigan, banking $330,000.

2002: Among the top 10 in one-third of his starts as a Champions Tour rookie...Became the 11^th player to make his first Champions Tour title a major when he held off Bobby Wadkins and Hale Irwin for the Senior PGA Championship crown. Was the only player in the 144-man field to finish under par (2-under) over 72 holes at Firestone and ended a TOUR victory drought of 15 years, 10 months and 27 days dating back to the 1986 Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic...Challenged Dana Quigley earlier in the year for the Siebel Classic in Silicon Valley title before eventually T2 in San Jose with Bob Gilder...Registered three straight top-10 finishes near the end of the year including a T5 at the SENIOR TOUR Championship at Gaillardia thanks to four consecutive par/better scores...Held off Don Pooley by one stroke to win the Senior Slam on the Lost Gold course at Superstition Mountain in early November. His 36-hole score of 6-under 138 in the event, pitting the winners of the four major championships, earned him a $300,000 check...Made his official debut on the Champions Tour at the Royal Caribbean Classic, tying for 51^st at Crandon Park with a 1-under 143 in the rain-shortened event...Played in both the Masters and PGA Championship at Hazeltine in Minnesota, but missed the cut in both events.

Personal

Always a gallery favorite because of his relaxed approach to the game...Has an interest in golf course design and one of his projects is the TPC at Summerlin, host course of the PGA TOUR’s Las Vegas event...Won USGA’s Bob Jones Award in 1985. Award given in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf...Lists Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan as his favorite athletes and Arnold Palmer as his idol growing up...Enjoys the outdoors and went on a sheep hunt to Alaska in 2001...Website is fuz.com




		Fuzzy Zoeller EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31 on All-Time Money List FULL NAME: Frank Urban Zoeller, Jr. BIRTHDATE: November 11, 1951 BIRTHPLACE: New Albany, IN RESIDENCE: New Albany, IN plays out of Naples National, Naples, FL FAMILY: Wife, Diane: Sunnye Noel (5/5/79), Heide Leigh (8/23/81), Gretchen Marie (3/27/84), Miles Remington (6/1/89)/1/89) EDUCATION: Edison Junior College, Ft. Myers, FL and University of Houston SPECIAL INTERESTS: All Sports, golf course design TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1973 JOINED CHAMPIONS TOUR: 2002 PGA Victories (10) 1979 Andy Williams-San Diego Open Invitational, Masters Tournament. 1981 Colonial National Invitation. 1983 Sea Pines Heritage, Panasonic Las Vegas Pro Celebrity Classic. 1984 U.S. Open Championship. 1985 Hertz Bay Hill Classic. 1986 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Sea Pines Heritage, Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic. Champions Tour Victories (2) 2002 Senior PGA Championship. 2004 MasterCard Championship. Other Victories (6) 1972 Florida State Junior College Championship (indiv). 1973 Indiana State Amateur. 1985 Skins Game. 1986 Skins Game. 1987 Merrill Lynch Shoot-Out Championship. 2003 Tylenol Par-3 Challenge. Career Highlights Won his first event on the Champions Tour in just over 19 months when he started the 2004 season with a come-from-beyond victory at the MasterCard Championship. Shot 64 in the final round and out dueled Dana Quigley down the stretch, thanks to birdies on the last three holes, including a clutch 18-foot putt on No. 18 for the win. Had 23 total birdies for the week...Made a strong run at another victory at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am a month later. Birdied 11 of his first 14 holes, including seven straight, at the TPC of Tampa Bay on Sunday and briefly held the lead before a bogey on the final hole eventually left him in a T3. Final-round 61 was a career best and equaled the TPC of Tampa Bay course record...Voted as the Champions Tour’s February Player of the Month...Shot 6-under 29 on the front side of Glen Oaks during the second round of the Allianz Championship, a nine-hole record at the course...Had strong performance at the U.S. Senior Open, where he finished T7 at Bellerive CC...Other top-10 finish was a T6 at the Blue Angels Classic near Pensacola in April...Showed some marked improvement with his putting statistics from the previous season. Moved from 69^th (29.98) to 17^th (29.13) in Putts Per Round and his Putting average dropped from 56^th in 2003 to 22^nd...Made his 26^th appearance at the Masters but did not make the cut. Career Highlights 2003: In 22 starts netted $741,830 and was 26^th on the final money list, earning himself a second straight trip to the season-ending Charles Schwab Cub Championship...Got off to a good start in his first outing of the season. Opened with a third-place finish at the MasterCard Championship. Moved into contention with a course-record-tying, 9-under-par 63 in the second round, but could not hold off a late charge by Dana Quigley on Sunday and finished three strokes back...Had two strong performances in major championships...Made a spirited defense of his Senior PGA Championship title and was the only player in the field to shoot par or better for all four rounds. Was leading early in the final round, but eventually finished T3 at Aronimink GC, three strokes behind winner John Jacobs...Finished T4 in his next start at the U.S. Senior Open in June, where he was under par in three of his four rounds...Had another good effort at the SBC Championship at Oak Hills CC in San Antonio in October when he was T4, one year after finishing T6 in the final full-field event of the season...Made his 25^th appearance at the Masters but did not make the cut...Easily won the Tylenol Par-3 Challenge at Treetops Resort in Michigan, banking $330,000. 2002: Among the top 10 in one-third of his starts as a Champions Tour rookie...Became the 11^th player to make his first Champions Tour title a major when he held off Bobby Wadkins and Hale Irwin for the Senior PGA Championship crown. Was the only player in the 144-man field to finish under par (2-under) over 72 holes at Firestone and ended a TOUR victory drought of 15 years, 10 months and 27 days dating back to the 1986 Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic...Challenged Dana Quigley earlier in the year for the Siebel Classic in Silicon Valley title before eventually T2 in San Jose with Bob Gilder...Registered three straight top-10 finishes near the end of the year including a T5 at the SENIOR TOUR Championship at Gaillardia thanks to four consecutive par/better scores...Held off Don Pooley by one stroke to win the Senior Slam on the Lost Gold course at Superstition Mountain in early November. His 36-hole score of 6-under 138 in the event, pitting the winners of the four major championships, earned him a $300,000 check...Made his official debut on the Champions Tour at the Royal Caribbean Classic, tying for 51^st at Crandon Park with a 1-under 143 in the rain-shortened event...Played in both the Masters and PGA Championship at Hazeltine in Minnesota, but missed the cut in both events. Personal Always a gallery favorite because of his relaxed approach to the game...Has an interest in golf course design and one of his projects is the TPC at Summerlin, host course of the PGA TOUR’s Las Vegas event...Won USGA’s Bob Jones Award in 1985. Award given in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf...Lists Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan as his favorite athletes and Arnold Palmer as his idol growing up...Enjoys the outdoors and went on a sheep hunt to Alaska in 2001...Website is fuz.com