Top-20 European players to watch out for in 2012: Part-10
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By the end of 2005, Rose had comfortably slipped out of the top-100 on the OWGR. He started off 2006 with consecutive strong finishes, including the Canadian Open and Valero Texas Open.
He won his first event after a lapse of four years, the Australian Masters in November. He finished for an amazing joint fifth at the Masters the same year and as the runner-up at BMW PGA Championship in 2007, where he lost in the sudden death Playoff.
He surged to top-20 on the OWGR for the first time in his career.
Rose won the Volvo Masters in November 2007 to reach his highest position of number seven on the OWGR and was also one of the highest ranked European players at that time.
Rose started off the year 2011 with a strong finish at the Transitions Championship where he threw away his overnight lead in the final round to finish down the leaderboard.
In September, Rose carded his lone victory on the PGA Tour, the BMW Championship, and the third leg of the FedExCup Playoff Championship at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club.
Rose amassed a total of € 571,283 on the European Tour money list and $3,401,420 on the PGA Tour this year.
He missed the cut at both the US Open and the PGA Championship but finished for a strong joint 11th at the Masters.
His scoring average remained 70.45 on the PGA Tour while an encouraging 71 on the European Tour.
Paul Casey
Official World Golf Rankings: 20
Race to Dubai Rankings: 29
European Tour wins in 2011: 1
Arizona State University graduate, Paul Casey is another Englishman who plays simultaneously on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour.
Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, 34-year-old Casey turned professional in 2000 and has gone over to win 13 professional events in the course of his career.
He joined the European Tour in 2001 and won his first European Tour event the same year. He defeated German Alex Cejka in the final round of Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship and won the prestigious Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award.
In 2003, Casey won two events on the European Tour calendar, namely, the ANZ Championship and the Benson and Hedges International Open and surged to the number six on the Order of Merit.
He was not able to pull in any individual titles in 2004 but his strong performance in the Ryder Cup earned the European Team another feather in the cap.
He also played well in the WGC-World Cup for England and secured a strong joint sixth finish at the Masters.
Casey joined the PGA Tour in 2005 and played extensively on both sides of the Atlantic for the proceeding years. He was able to card only one victory on the PGA, the Shell Houston Open in 2009 where he defeated J.B Holmes on a Playoff.
Casey carded a splendid year in 2006 on the European Tour where he bagged two titles, the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles and the HSBC World Match Play Championship.
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