Top-20 American players to watch out for in 2012: Part-18
One, he had one of the most thrilling amateur careers where he went over to win U.S. Amateur, the Western Amateur, the U.S. Amateur Public Links (also won in 2002) and the NCAA individual championship. Two, he was the only player in his time who refused
to wear sponsor’s apparel in order to promote the brand, a philosophy he had to let go off in the proceeding years.
Moore played in the US Open in 2005 at Pinehurst as a low amateur, making the cut and finished for a joint 57th. He turned professional soon after that and played at the Westchester Classic, on sponsor’s exemption, finishing for a joint 51st.
Moore played 22 events on the PGA Tour this season, making the halfway cut in 18 of them. His strongest finish came at the Travellers Championship in June where he finished runners up. Moore has able to pull in only one professional victory in his five year
long professional career, at the Wyndham Championship in 2009. He carded four top-ten and nine top-25 finishes this season to surge to his current ranking on the OWGR. He earned a total of $1,942,906 with a scoring average of 70.63.
Mark Wilson
Official World Golf Rankings: 62
FedExCup Rankings: 22
PGA Tour wins in 2011: 2
Mark Wilson recorded the best season of his career this year when he pulled in two successive victories on the tour taking him to altogether new heights. He started off the season, winning the season starter Sony Open in Hawaii, where he defeated Tim Clarke
and Steve Marino by two strokes, marking his third win on the tour. Bolstered by an early win, Wilson went over to pull in another stellar victory at the Waste Management Phoenix Open a fortnight ahead, where he took over Jason Dufner on the Playoff. For the
rest of the season, the 37-year-old American decided to be complacent with his early gains and missed the cut in several of the proceeding events including the Masters and the US Open. He finished for a joint 63 in the US Open and a joint 26th in
the PGA Championship.
Wilson then moved on to land another strong finish at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, finishing for a joint ninth. He posted a joint seventh at the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide Insurance and a joint fourth at the season closing CIMB Asia Pacific
Classic Malaysia. Out of the 26 events he played on the tour this year, he missed the cut at no fewer than seven of them. He pulled in four top-ten and nine top-25 finishes with a scoring average of 70.55. His earning topped at $3,158,477 for the season. Wilson
will continue with his brilliant performance starting next year and will continue to be a potent threat on the tour. The young player is one of the many young trailblazers on the PGA Tour.
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