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Australian professional golfer For other people with the same name, see Stewart Appleby.

Stuart Appleby

Appleby at the 2005 PGA Championship

Personal information

Born

(1971-05-01) 1 May 1971 (age 53)
Cohuna, Victoria, Australia

Height

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Weight

195 lb (88 kg; 13.9 st)

Sporting nationality

Australia

Residence

Orlando, Florida, U.S.

Spouse

Renay White (m. 1995; died 1998)
Ashley Saleet (m. 2002)

Children

Career

Turned professional

1992

Current tour(s)

PGA Tour Champions

Former tour(s)

PGA Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia

Professional wins

Highest ranking

8 (21 March 2004)

Number of wins by tour

PGA Tour

PGA Tour of Australasia

Korn Ferry Tour

Other

Best results in major championships

Masters Tournament

T7: 2007

PGA Championship

T4: 2000

U.S. Open

T10: 1998

The Open Championship

T2: 2002

Achievements and awards

PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year	2010

Stuart Appleby (born 1 May 1971) is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He was a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour.

Early life

Appleby was born in Cohuna, Victoria, and grew up on a nearby dairy farm. He began in golf by hitting balls from paddock to paddock after his farm chores were completed. As a youth, he played Australian rules football.

Professional career

Early career

Appleby turned professional in 1992 and began his career on the PGA Tour of Australasia. In 1995 he won twice on the Nike Tour (now known as the Web.com Tour), the second tier men's tour in the U.S. He was the eighth player to win his first Web.com Tour start. He qualified to compete on the PGA Tour the following year by finishing the season fifth on the money list.

PGA Tour

Appleby has won nine times on the PGA Tour. He was a member of the International Team in the Presidents Cup five times, and featured in the top ten of the Official World Golf Ranking in 2004. His best performance in a major championship came in 2002, where he lost in a four-way playoff to Ernie Els at The Open Championship.

In 2010, during the final round of the inaugural Greenbrier Classic, Appleby became the fifth player in history to shoot a 59 in an official PGA Tour event, and won the PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year award. Appleby was limited to seven starts before back surgery in March 2015. He made a start on the Web.com Tour for the first time in twenty years at the Nova Scotia Open, where he finished T36. Qualified for a medical extension, Appleby was allowed entry into the Web.com Tour Finals, but did not make a cut and played the 2016 season on a major medical extension. He burned through his medical extension and finished 143rd in the FedEx Cup. He tried to regain his Tour card through the Web.com Finals, but did not finish high enough when Hurricane Matthew threatened Florida and the final tournament was cancelled, leaving the top 25 players with their cards, and Appleby finished 31st, leaving him with limited status for the 2017 season. He finished 192nd in the FedEx Cup, limiting him to the Past Champions category for 2018.

Personal life

Appleby's first wife Renay was struck and killed by a taxicab outside London Waterloo station in 1998, shortly after he had missed the cut at The Open Championship.

Appleby married his second wife, Ashley Saleet, in 2002, and they live with their four children in Orlando, Florida. After the 1999 plane crash that killed his friend and next-door neighbour Payne Stewart, he has been one of the key father figures for Stewart's children, Chelsea and Aaron. In his spare time, Appleby enjoys motor racing. He is the ambassador for Golf Australia's Crown Lager Social Golf Club and patron for Stuart Appleby Junior Golf.

Professional wins (20)

PGA Tour wins (9)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	16 Mar 1997	Honda Classic	68-68-67-71=274	−14	1 stroke	Michael Bradley, Payne Stewart
2	7 Jun 1998	Kemper Open	70-63-69-72=274	−10	1 stroke	Scott Hoch
3	2 May 1999	Shell Houston Open	70-68-70-71=279	−9	1 stroke	John Cook, Hal Sutton
4	12 Oct 2003	Las Vegas Invitational	62-68-63-66-69=328	−31	Playoff	Scott McCarron
5	11 Jan 2004	Mercedes Championships	66-67-66-71=270	−22	1 stroke	Vijay Singh
6	9 Jan 2005	Mercedes Championships (2)	74-64-66-67=271	−21	1 stroke	Jonathan Kaye
7	8 Jan 2006	Mercedes Championships (3)	71-72-70-71=284	−8	Playoff	Vijay Singh
8	23 Apr 2006	Shell Houston Open (2)	66-67-69-67=269	−19	6 strokes	Bob Estes
9	1 Aug 2010	Greenbrier Classic	66-68-65-59=258	−22	1 stroke	Jeff Overton

PGA Tour playoff record (2–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	2002	The Open Championship	Steve Elkington, Ernie Els, Thomas Levet	Els won with par on first extra hole after four-hole aggregate playoff; Els: E (4-3-5-4=16), Levet: E (4-2-5-5=16), Appleby: +1 (4-3-5-5=17), Elkington: +1 (5-3-4-5=17)
2	2003	Las Vegas Invitational	Scott McCarron	Won with birdie on first extra hole
3	2006	Mercedes Championships	Vijay Singh	Won with birdie on first extra hole

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (3)

Legend
Flagship events (1)
Other PGA Tour of Australasia (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	20 Dec 1998	Schweppes Coolum Classic	68-67-67-69=271	−17	4 strokes	Craig Spence
2	25 Nov 2001 (2002 season)	Holden Australian Open	69-70-67-65=271	−17	3 strokes	Scott Laycock
3	14 Nov 2010	JBWere Masters	71-69-69-65=274	−10	1 stroke	Adam Bland

Nike Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	19 Mar 1995	Nike Monterrey Open	68-70-67-68=273	−15	Playoff	Rafael Alarcón
2	1 Oct 1995	Nike Sonoma County Open	69-69-65-66=269	−19	4 strokes	Bobby Collins, Joe Durant, Jerry Kelly

Nike Tour playoff record (1–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1995	Nike Monterrey Open	Rafael Alarcón	Won with birdie on seventh extra hole
2	1995	Nike Ozarks Open	P. H. Horgan III, Mike Schuchart	Schuchart won with birdie on second extra hole

Australasian Foundation Tour wins (5)

1991 Queensland Open (as an amateur)
1994 Victorian PGA Championship, Tasmanian Classic, South Australian PGA Championship, Nedlands Masters

Other wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	3 Aug 1999	CVS Charity Classic (with Jeff Sluman)	63-59=122	−20	2 strokes	Brett Quigley and Dana Quigley

Results in major championships

! Tournament	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Masters Tournament	T21	CUT	CUT	CUT	T31	CUT	CUT	T22	T43	T19	T7	T14	T30		CUT
U.S. Open	T36	T10	CUT	CUT	CUT	T37	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	T26	T36	CUT	T29
The Open Championship	T20	CUT	CUT	T11	61	T2	T15	T36	T41	CUT	CUT	T51	T65
PGA Championship	T61	CUT	CUT	T4	T16	T17	T23	T17	T15	T55	T12	T15	CUT	T68

Top 10 Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

Tournament	2nd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	0	1	5	14	8
U.S. Open	0	0	1	1	14	6
The Open Championship	1	1	1	4	13	9
PGA Championship	0	1	1	8	14	11
Totals	1	2	4	18	55	34

Most consecutive cuts made – 6 (2007 PGA – 2009 Masters)
Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (four times)

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
The Players Championship	T14	CUT	CUT	T22	T33	T28	T21	CUT	CUT	CUT	T16	T15	CUT		CUT			T77

Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Match Play	R64	R64	R16	R64	R64	R32	R32	R64	R64	R16	R64
Championship	T30	T25	NT	T11	T2	T16	T11	T6	T35	T34	T61
Invitational	T23	T20	T5	T42	T46	T9	T13	T71	T14	T2	T51	T63	76
Champions												T69	T42

Cancelled due to 9/11

Top 10 Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Note: Appleby is the only golfer to compete in the first 32 WGC events.