Shell Houston Open
TPC at The Woodlands
April 29 - May 2, 1999
$2,500,000.00 purse
Age on Final Day:
28 years, 0 months, and 1 days
Birthplace:
Cohung, Australia
Money in 1999:
(25th) $1,359,724
Data:
Final round of 71 was the highest final round by a winner in 15 years at the TPC at The Woodlands course ... Started the final round 2 strokes behind Hal Sutton ... Defeated John Cook by one stroke shooting 70-68-70-71 for a 72-hole total 279 ... Third Tour victory for Appleby ... World Golf Ranking #30 after victory ... The first victory after the untimely death of his wife ... Played in 29 tournaments making 21 cuts ... Finished in the top 10 five times and the top 25 12 times in 1999 ... Finished 7th on Tour in Par 5 birdie leaders (43.4%) ... The President's Cup 1998 ... Would win Shell Houston Open a second time in 2006 in first event played on Redstone Golf Club -- Tournament Course, becoming the first ever wire-to-wire winner.
CHAMP STATS: 2006
Shell Houston Open
Redstone Golf Club Tournament Course
April 17 - 23, 2006
$5,500,000.00 purse
Age on Final Day:
34 years, 11 months, 22 days
Birthplace:
Cohuna, Australia
Money in 2006:
(8th) $3,470,457
Data:
Established tournament record with opening 6-under-par 66 ... Went on to record all four rounds in the sixties (66-67-69-67) en route to a 19-under-par 269 total ... World Golf Ranking #25 after victory ... Became first ever wire-to-wire winner in tournament history ... Second Shell Houston Open victory came seven years after first triumph in 1999 on the Tournament Course at The Woodlands ... Six-shot margin of victory matched tournament record set by Jack Burke (1952) and shared by Vijay Singh (2002) ... Sixth player to post four rounds in the 60s en route to victory, joining Singh (2002), Mike Heinen (1994), Curtis Strange (1988), Jay Haas (1987) and Bob Charles (1963) ... Second victory of 2006, having opened year with Mercedes Championship triumph ... Led tournament driving distance statistic with average of 294 yards ... One of five Australians to win -- Bruce Devlin (1972), Bruce Cramption (1973, 1975), David Graham (1983) and Robert Allenby (2000) ... Multiple win gained extra year exemption through 2009 season.
