Earns FIRST PGA TOUR victory in 57th career professional start at the age of 26 years, 6 months, and 23 days.

PGA TOUR Career Victories -- 2006 Cialis Western Open

Career European Tour victories (4) -- 2000 Vodacom Players Championship; 2003 South African Airways Open; 2004 South African Airways Open, Deutsche Bank – SAP Open TPC of Europe.

EXEMPT STATUS

Earns two-year exemption on the PGA TOUR that will take him through the 2008 season. Earns exemption into the several invitational tournaments in 2006: PGA Championship, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the 2007 Mercedes Championships in Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii.

CIALIS WESTERN OPEN NOTES

Captured Cialis Western Open in first career start at the event.

Youngest winner (26) of the Cialis Western Open since Tiger Woods won the event in 1999 at the age of 23.

Final-round 67 was the lowest final-round for a winner since Jerry Kelly’s 65 in 2002.

Since 1916 when TOUR records are available for this stat, becomes the 14th player to win his first PGA TOUR event at the Cialis Western Open. The others: Abe Espinosa (1928), Herman Barron (1942), Hugh Royer (1970), Jim Jamieson (1972), Tom Watson (1974), Scott Simpson (1980), Scott Verplank-a (1985), D.A. Weibring (1987), Jim Benepe (1988), Russ Cochran (1991), Steve Stricker (1996), Joe Durant (1998) and Stephen Ames (2004).

Posts four rounds in the 60s, first player to win with four rounds in the 60s since Jerry Kelly in 2002.

2006 NOTES

Ninth player in his 20s to win on TOUR this season.

Becomes the second South African to win on the PGA TOUR in 2006, joining Rory Sabbatini (Nissan Open).

With paycheck of $900,000, jumps to No. 5 on the PGA TOUR Official Money List with $3,030,746.

CAREER NOTES

Previous top finish on the PGA TOUR was a P2 at the 2006 Wachovia Championship and a second at the EDS Byron Nelson Chamionship.