Limited to 18 events in 2006 due to bout with vertigo most of the season. Will receive a Minor Medical Extension for 2007. Coupled with 2006 winnings of $163,110, has three events to earn $497,788, equaling No. 125 from 2006. If he is successful, he will play out of the Major Medical Extension category for the remainder of the 2007 season.

Made just nine cuts in 18 starts.

Shared first-round lead at the Buick Invitational with Brandt Jobe after starting with a 7-under 65. Finished T56.

Limited to 18 events in 2006 due to bout with vertigo most of the season. Will receive a Minor Medical Extension for 2007. Coupled with 2006 winnings of $163,110, has three events to earn $497,788, equaling No. 125 from 2006. If he is successful, he will play out of the Major Medical Extension category for the remainder of the 2007 season.

Made just nine cuts in 18 starts.

Shared first-round lead at the Buick Invitational with Brandt Jobe after starting with a 7-under 65. Finished T56.

2005: Finished No. 150 on the money list but retained his fully-exempt membership thanks to making the 2004 European Ryder Cup Team.

Opened the season making only one cut in his first six starts. In seventh TOUR start, made his first cut at the Masters in his second appearance in Augusta (2003-cut), finished T13.

Next week, collected his only top-10 of the season, a T6 at the MCI Heritage, thanks to an opening 7-under 64. 2004: Finished 154th on the money list after playing in just five PGA TOUR events as a conditional member. Made the European Ryder Cup team to secure his fully exempt status on TOUR for 2005.

Spent a full season on the European Tour, where he posted his third career win and first since the 2001 season.

Came from seven strokes back at the European Tour's Barclays Scottish Open in July by firing an 8-under 63 in the final round to defeat New Zealand's Michael Campbell by a stroke. Began the day in a tie for 14th, seven strokes behind 54-hole leaders Gregory Havret and Marcus Fraser.

The win gave him an exemption into the following week's British Open in Scotland, where he finished T5. Shared the first-round lead with Paul Casey after an opening, 5-under 66 and trailed Skip Kendall by one at the halfway mark.

The following month shared the 54-hole lead with Miguel Angel Jimenez at the BMW International Open, but posted a 68 to Jimenez's 66 and finished solo second. 2003: Only top 10 finish came in final event of the season, a T6 at the Chrysler Championship. Teamed with Raphael Jacquelin to finish T3 at the 2003 World Golf Championships-World Cup competition in Kiawah Island, SC. 2002: Earned $532,186 as a non-member, inside the No. 125 total of $515,445, enabling him to have fully exempt status for the following year.

T2 in British Open after making four-way playoff with eventual winner Ernie Els, Stuart Appleby and Steve Elkington. Advanced with Els out of the four-hole playoff into sudden death, with Els winning on the first sudden-death hole, the 18th at Muirfield, with a par. Earned career-best $452,990 for playoff runner-up. 2001: Won his first title outside France, the Victor Chandler British Masters, after a four-way playoff at Woburn's Marquess Course. Became the first Frenchman to win on British soil since Arnaud Massy won the British Open in 1907.

Posted five other top-10 finishes, and finished 19th in the European Tour Order of Merit with $706,776. 2000: Finished T2 at Moroccan Open on European Tour. 1998: After struggling on the European Tour for the better part of the mid-90s, received invite from French Federation to play in Europe One Cannes Open, and became first winner on home soil since Jean Garaialde took the French Open in 1969. 1994: Became first Frenchman to earn PGA TOUR card after taking 18th place in Qualifying Tournament.

Played in 10 events, making one cut and $2,200.

Member of the French National 18-and-under field hockey team, and a nationally-ranked tennis player at age 14.