Top 100 TOUR Players to Watch in 2010: No. 12

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Dec. 21, 2009

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Regular Season Rank	9
Playoff Rank	9
Bonus Money	550,000

Kenny Perry will turn 50 the week of the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits. Don't think for one moment that the Kentuckian will be counting the minutes until he can play on the Champions Tour, though. As if he is channeling Vijay Singh, Perry has won 11 of his 14 PGA TOUR titles since he turned 40. Two of those came last year as Perry beat Charley Hoffman with a 22-foot birdie putt on the second extra hole at the FBR Open and later fired a 63 on Sunday to win the Travelers Championship. He had tied the TPC River Highlands record with a 61 in the first round and his 258 winning total was the fourth lowest in TOUR history. The one that will haunt Perry, though, came at the Masters as he took Angel Cabrera to two holes of sudden death before surrendering. It was his second playoff loss in a major but hurt all the more because Perry had a two-stroke lead with two holes remaining only to bogey Nos. 17 and 18. He went on to tie for fourth at THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola, where he received the Payne Stewart Award, and played in his fourth Presidents Cup.


He turns 50 this year. If he chooses to play the Champions Tour they may have to rename it Perry's annuity. But K.P. says there is still some unfinished business on the PGA TOUR.

Perry holds the longest consecutive cuts made streak on TOUR. He hasn't missed a cut since the 2008 PGA Championship (he withdrew with an injury), a stretch of 28 events.

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