Stuart Appleby
| Stuart Appleby | |
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| — Golfer — | |
Appleby at 2005 PGA Championship
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| Personal information | |
| Born |
1 May 1971 Cohuna, Victoria, Australia |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 195 lb (88 kg; 13.9 st) |
| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Residence | Orlando, Florida, U.S. |
| Spouse | Renay Appleby (1995–1998; her death) Ashley Saleet (m. 2002) |
| Children | 4 |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1992 |
| Current tour(s) |
PGA Tour of Australasia (joined 1993) PGA Tour (joined 1996) |
| Professional wins | 17 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 9 |
| PGA Tour of Australasia | 3 |
| Web.com Tour | 2 |
| Other | 3 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | T7: 2007 |
| U.S. Open | T10: 1998 |
| The Open Championship | T2: 2002 |
| PGA Championship | T4: 2000 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year |
2010 |
Stuart Appleby (born 1 May 1971) is an Australian professional golfer.
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.
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.
Appleby has won nine times on the PGA Tour. He was a member of the International Team in the Presidents Cup four 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. Appleby won the 2010 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 20 years at the Nova Scotia Open, where he finished T36. As a player who qualified for a medical extension, Appleby was allowed entry into the Web.com Tour Finals. He did not make a cut during the finals and played the 2015–16 season on a major medical extension. He burned through his medical extension and finished 143rd in the FedEx Cup, leaving him with conditional status for the 2016–17 season.
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