2011: Posted first top 10 in his sixth start, at the Transitions Championship. Posted the low round of the day in the final round, a 6-under 65, to finish T5. The finish marked his first top 10 on TOUR since winning the 2008 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas. 2010: Played season on a Major Medical Extension. Made only seven PGA TOUR starts due to a back injury.

Best performance a T50 at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Also made five Nationwide Tour starts, with his top showing a T13 at the Utah Championship in September. 2009: Made the cut in just nine of 30 starts during his sophomore campaign, with a season-best T30 at the Northern Trust Open. Ended the season No. 190 on the money list. 2008: Won in his rookie season on the PGA TOUR and ranked No. 81 on the official money list, with 13 made cuts in 29 starts.

Recorded his first PGA TOUR hole-in-one when he aced the 180-yard seventh hole using a 5-iron at Bay Hill Club and Lodge during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Held the outright lead after each of the first three rounds of the Viking Classic. Ended up in a playoff on Sunday with Brian Gay and Will MacKenzie after making double bogey on his 71st hole of regulation. Lost to MacKenzie on the second playoff hole. His runner-up finish was a then-career best, topping his T22 finish at the 2008 Northern Trust Open. He collected $316,800, moving to No. 130 on the official money list.

Completed a wire-to-wire victory for his first PGA TOUR title, closing with a 4-under 68 to hold off Matt Kuchar by a stroke in the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. The fourth rookie to win on the PGA TOUR in 2008, he opened with rounds of 62, 64 and 69 at TPC Summerlin en route to a tournament-record 25-under 263 total. He earned a career-best $738,000 to jump from 138th to 75th on the money list. Birdied Nos. 9, 11, 12, 14 and 17 to reach 26-under before a bogey on the par-4 18th. He broke the event mark of 264 set by George McNeill in 2007. 2007: Enjoyed a successful rookie season on the Nationwide Tour, making the cut in 16 of 30 starts with nine top-25 finishes. Finished the year No. 16 on the money list and was never below No. 63.

First top-10 finish of his career came at the season-opening Movistar Panama Championship, where he finished T5, three shots behind Miguel Carballo.

Posted a then-career-best T3 finish at the BMW Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs, finishing two strokes behind tournament winner Nick Flanagan. Had two top-10 finishes the rest of the season. The first was a T5 at the Rex Hospital Open. Then at the last full-field event of the year, shot 15-under 269 to win his first Tour title at the Miccosukee Championship by one stroke over Jon Mills and David Mathis. The win, worth $103,500, moved him from No. 43 to No. 13 on the money list to earn a berth the 2008 PGA TOUR. 2006: During the PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament, aced the 246-yard sixth hole during the fifth round on the Stadium Course. Earned his Nationwide Tour status after rebounding from an opening round, 11-over 83 to finish T46 at the Qualifying Tournament. Made his way to the final stage after sharing individual medalist honors with Steve Wheatcroft and Maarten Lafeber.

Finished fifth on the Gateway Tour money list.

Winner of the Abacoa Classic on the Minor League Golf Tour. 2002: Made three starts on the Nationwide Tour, with his only cut coming in his first start at the Hershey Open (T20). Amateur: Played at North Carolina State, where teammates included current TOUR members Carl Pettersson, Tim Clark and Garth Mulroy. Roomed with Pettersson.