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The Nationwide Tour congratulates its 2003 Player of the Year Zach Johnson on his hard-earned Masters victory of Sunday. The following are a few relevant statistics about his career to date on the Nationwide Tour and PGA TOUR:

Zach Johnson receives the Green Jacket from Phil Mickelson after winning the Masters on Sunday. (Martin/WireImage)

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• He is the first former Nationwide Tour player to win the Masters after nine players with Nationwide Tour roots had finished runner-up in the tournament since the Tour's inception in 1990.

• With Johnson's Masters win, Nationwide Tour players have now completed their own Grand Slam of the four majors. Beginning with John Daly's 1991 win in the PGA Championship, there are now 11 wins in the majors by players with Nationwide Tour roots. Four have come in the British Open (Daly/1995, Tom Lehman/1996, David Duval/2001 and Ernie Els/2002), three in the U.S. Open (Ernie Els/1994 and '97 and Jim Furyk/2003) and three in the PGA (Daly/1991, David Toms/2001 and Shaun Micheel/2003).

• Nationwide Tour players have now won every tournament currently on the PGA TOUR schedule at least once with the lone exception being the PODS Championship, which is played at Innisbrook Resort outside Tampa, FL, and the Mayakoba Golf Classic, a new event on the 2007 schedule played in February in Cancun, Mexico.

• In 2003, Johnson broke the single season earnings mark on the Nationwide Tour by more than $100,000 when he collected $494,882, which was $100,000 more than the previous mark (Chad Campbell/$394,552 in 2001). He won two events, had 11 top-10 finishes in 20 starts, missed only one cut and was named Nationwide Tour Player of the Year. In addition to leading the money list by more than $102,000, his dominance was evident elsewhere as he finished first in eight other statistical categories -- Scoring Average, All-Around Ranking, Putting Average, Scoring Average Before the Cut, Birdie Conversion, Consecutive Cuts, Bounce Back and Top-10 finishes. Troy Matteson broke Johnson's mark by $127 in 2005.

• Since moving to the PGA TOUR, Johnson has finished 19th, 39th and 24th on the money list in 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. In addition to his '04 win in the BellSouth Classic in Atlanta, he added three runners-up and four third-place finishes in those three years. His Masters victory was his second top 10 of 2007 and leaped him 59 spots on the FedExCup points list to No. 9. His earnings are $1,657,401 (8th), which brings his four-year PGA TOUR earnings to $8,380,777 in less than 100 starts (99).

Personal Information:
• Born February 24, 1976 in Iowa City, Iowa
• Resides in Lake Mary, Fla.
• Graduate of Drake University, 1998/Business Management & Marketing
• Wife, Kim; has 14-week old son, Will
• Turned professional in 1998
• Joined PGA TOUR in 2004 after finishing No. 1 on the Nationwide Tour money list in 2003 to earn his PGA TOUR card
• Member of 2006 U.S. Ryder Cup team (1-2-1 record)
• Avid University of Iowa sports fan