Argentina
Eduardo Romero - Despite turning 50 midway through the season, Romero continued to play well, tying for second in his Champions Tour and European Seniors Tour debut at the Senior British Open. His best PGA TOUR showing came at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship (tied for 33rd). He was a runner-up at the Daily Telegraph Damovo British Masters on the European Tour.

Angel Cabrera - He's enjoyed two second-place showings on the European Tour in 2004, tying for second at the Daily Telegraph Damovo British Masters and finishing second by himself at the Volvo PGA Championship. He also tied for fourth at the World Golf Championships-NEC Invitational.

Australia
Stephen Leaney - Playing exclusively on the PGA TOUR, Leaney's best finish came early in the season at the first World Golf Championships event of 2004, the Accenture Match Play Championship. Leaney made it to the semifinals before losing, eventually settling for fourth place. Later in the season he tied for seventh at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship.

Austria
Markus Brier - Brier has three top-10 European Tour finishes this year, at the Madeira Island Open, where he tied for seventh, a runner-up performance at the BMW Russian Open and a tie for fourth at the Turespana Mallorca Classic.

Martin Wiegele - His career-best performance came last year at the BMW Russian Open, where he finished second.

Canada
Stuart Anderson - He has two top-five finishes this year on the Canadian Tour. He was fifth at the MTS Classic and matched that performance later in the season at the Montreal Open. His best Canadian Tour finish was a tie for third at the TELUS Edmonton Open in 2003.

Darren Griff - Griff had his best-ever Canadian Tour performance at this year's Barton Creek Challenge, where he finished third. This bettered his previous-best showing, a tie for fourth, at the 2003 Northern Ontario Open.

Chinese Taipei
Wang Ter-Chang - His two best finishes on the 2004 Asian Tour were at the Tianjin TEDA Open in China, where he tied for 10th. His top performance of the season was a fifth-place showing at the Caltex Masters in Singapore.

Lu Wei-Chih - He has yet to win a tournament since turning pro in 2002. But Lu did win the Chinese Taipei Amateur Championship as an 18-year-old amateur. Earlier this year at the Tianjin TEDA Open in China, he had the low 18-hole score of the year on the Asian Tour, a 10-under 61. It was at that tournament that he had his best finish of the year, a third-place showing.

Colombia
Manuel Merizalde - Merizalde was the medalist of the stage-one qualifying tournament on the European Tour. He made it to the semifinals of the 2001 U.S. Amateur and was the low amateur at the 2000 Mexican Open, finishing tied for 22nd. As a freshman, he was the medalist at the 1998 Western Athletic Conference Championship.

Jose Garrido - His best finish on the Tour de Las Americas was a sixth-place showing at the Bancolombia American Express Open in his native Colombia in November of 2003. The following week, at the Abierto de Medellin, he finished seventh.

Denmark
Anders Hansen - Hansen has seven European Tour top 10s this season, with his best performance a runner-up showing at the Open de Madrid. He also finished in the top five at the Volvo PGA Championship and The Heritage. He finished fourth at both tournaments.

Soren Kjeldsen - Kjeldsen has played exclusively on the European Tour in 2004, enjoying two top-10 finishes. He tied for fifth at the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open and tied for eighth at the Smurfit European Open. He won his lone European Tour title a year ago at The Diageo Championship at Gleneagles.

England
Paul Casey - He has played 11 PGA TOUR events this season, but his best finishes have come in big events. Casey tied for 10th at THE PLAYERS Championship and was sixth at the Masters. He also has two European Tour runner-up performances-at the ANZ Championship and the Celtic Manor Resort Wales Open-to go along with four other top-10 finishes.

Luke Donald - Donald lost in a playoff early in the season at the Buick Invitational and tied for third at the Cialis Western Open on the PGA TOUR. The European Ryder Cup team member added two victories in five starts on the European Tour, with titles coming at the Scandinavian Masters and the Omega European Masters. Donald reeled off 20 consecutive under-par scores on the European Tour and had 22 in 24 rounds.

France
Raphael Jacquelin - His two runner-up finishes in 2004 have come on the European Tour, at the Nissan Irish Open and the Dunhill Championship. Jacquelin also has third-, fourth- and fifth-place showings this year.

Thomas Levet - He has six top-five finishes this season on the European Tour, including a win at The Barclays Scottish Open. The European Ryder Cup team member also tied for fifth at the British Open.

Germany
Marcel Siem - Siem's first professional victory of any kind came at the dunhill championship in January in Johannesburg, South Africa. He's followed that breakthrough title with six other European Tour top-10 finishes in 2004.

Kariem Baraka - His best finish as a professional came on the Southern Africa Tour when he tied for fourth at the Stanbic Zambia Open. Baraka's best finish this season was a tie for 11th at the European Tour's BMW Russian Open.

Holland
Robert-Jan Derksen - A four-time Dutch Amateur champion, Derksen won his maiden professional title at the 2003 Dubai Desert Classic. This season, he's had two top-10 finishes, at the Qatar Masters (tied for eighth) and the Open de Sevilla (tied for fourth).

Maarten Lafeber - Two fifth-place finishes-at the dunhill championship and the Smurfit European Open-have highlighted his season. But Lafeber's big breakthrough came on home turf a season ago when he captured the Dutch Open.

Ireland
Padraig Harrington - The nine-time European Tour winner picked up his eighth title earlier this season (in December of 2003) with a victory at the Omega Hong Kong Open. Harrington's ninth win came at the Linde German Masters in September. On the PGA TOUR, Harrington, a member of the European Ryder Cup team, was a runner-up at both THE PLAYERS Championship and the Buick Classic, where he lost a playoff to Sergio Garcia. He was also top five in two of his three World Golf Championships appearances this season, and he tied for sixth at the WGC-American Express Championship.

Paul McGinley - McGinley had two close calls this year, finishing as the runner-up at the Dubai Desert Classic and the KLM Open on the European Tour and seven top 10s overall. His tie for sixth at the PGA Championship was his best PGA TOUR showing in 2004.

Italy
Allesandro Tadini - Despite only five starts on the European Tour, Tadini had two top-10 finishes. His best performance of the season came at the Aa St. Omer Open, where he finished second. In his next start, two months later at the BMW Russian Open, Tadini tied for eighth.

Andrea Maestroni - Maestroni enjoyed his best European Challenge Tour finish of his career earlier this year at the Texbond Open in Gardagolf in his native Italy. He tied for 10th there.

Japan
Shigeki Maruyama - Maruyama came close to winning a PGA TOUR event for the fourth consecutive year, losing by a stroke at the Nissan Open near Los Angeles, CA. He was also tied for the lead at the 36-hole mark of the U.S. Open before settling on a tie for fourth. In October, Maruyama played his first Japan Golf Tour event in four years, tying for second at the Bridgestone Open.

Hidemichi Tanaka - Tanaka has played exclusively on the PGA TOUR this season after winning 15 Japan Golf Tour titles between 1995 and 2001. This year, Tanaka turned in two top-five performances (at the HP Classic of New Orleans and the B.C. Open).

Mexico
Pablo del Olmo - He has played four European Tour events this season and four on the Asian PGA Tour. His best finish was a tie for 37th at the Mercuries Masters in Taiwan in September.

Alejandro Quiroz - This is his third World Cup appearance, with his third different partner. In 2001, he finished 20th on the Canadian Tour money list, followed by a 14th-place showing in 2002. Earlier this season, Quiroz finished second at the Michelin Guadalajara Classic on the Canadian Tour.

Myanmar
Kyi Hla Han - He was the leader of the 1999 Asian Tour Order of Merit. He became the first Asian Tour player to earn more than $200,000 in a season, doing so in 1999 and is the winner of 16 professional tournaments, all in Asia. This season he's enjoyed two top-10 finishes on the Asian Tour, with both coming in China. He tied for fourth at the Crowne Plaza Open in Shanghai and tied for ninth at the Volkswagen Masters in Beijing.

Soe Kyaw Naing - His best Asian Tour finish this season was a tie for 35th at the Macau Open near Hong Kong.

New Zealand
David Smail - Smail has top-five finishes on three different Tours, including a tie for third at the Holden New Zealand Open on the Australasian Tour, a tie for fourth on the European Tour at the Johnnie Walker Classic and ties for second at both the Sun Chlorella Classic and the Japan Open on the Japan Golf Tour.

Craig Perks - Perks made six of his 10 cuts during a six-week stretch of consecutive starts beginning at The INTERNATIONAL. His best finish this season came at the Bank of America Colonial, where he tied for fourth.

Scotland
Scott Drummond - Drummond picked up his first European Tour title to go with his two European Challenge Tour victories when he won the Volvo PGA Championship in May. He finished his season with two top-10 performances, a tie for ninth at the HSBC World Match Play Championship and a tie for seventh at the Volvo Masters Andalucia.

Alastair Forsyth - Forsyth has come close to winning a second European Tour title, to go alongside his 2002 victory at the Carlsberg Malaysian Open. Later in that season, he was second at the Diageo Championship, and he tied for second at the Smurfit European Open. This season, he was tied in the runner-up spot at the South African Airways Open. He finished third last month at the Volvo Masters Andalucia.

South Africa
Trevor Immelman - He's a two-time winner on the European Tour this season, winning his first start of the season at the South African Airways Open where he successfully defended his 2003 title. He added his second victory four months later at the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open. He had six top-10 finishes.

Rory Sabbatini - He had two near-misses on the PGA TOUR this season, losing in a playoff to Sergio Garcia at the Buick Classic and then tying for second at the World Golf Championships-NEC Invitational. This season he passed the $2-million mark in single-season PGA TOUR earnings for the first time in his career.

South Korea
Kim Dae-Sub - His top two performances on the Asian Tour both came in his home country. He tied for 14th at the SK Telecom Open and tied for 44th at the Kolon Korean Open.

Shin Yong-Jin - Shin tied for 32nd at the Kolon Korean Open for his best Asian Tour finish of 2004.

Spain
Sergio Garcia - After not winning since 2002, a year he won three times, including the Canarias Open de Espana on the European Tour and the PGA TOUR's Mercedes Championships, Garcia found his winning ways this summer with two playoff victories on the PGA TOUR and a title at the Turespana Mallorca Classic on the European Tour. He first outdueled Robert Damron and Dudley Hart at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. Then a month later he went extra holes before defeating Padraig Harrington and Rory Sabbatini to win the Buick Classic. In only his third European Tour start of the season, he had four straight sub-70 rounds to win by four strokes. He had a record of 4-0-1 in this year's European Ryder Cup team's triumph over the U.S.

Miguel Angel Jimenez - He finished fourth on the European Tour's Volvo Order of Merit. Jimenez won four times (the Johnnie Wakler Classic, the Algarve Open de Portugal, the BMW Asian Open and the BMW International) and has finished in the top 10 in half of his 18 starts. He represented Europe at the 2004 Ryder Cup matches.

Sweden
Frederick Jacobson - He's had five top-10 finishes on the PGA TOUR, with his best showing coming at The Honda Classic, where he tied for fourth. On the European Tour, Jacobson has had three starts. His best performance was a tie for sixth at the BMW International Open.

Joakim Haeggman - Haeggman picked up his third European Tour title and first since 1997 when he won the Qatar Masters in March. He survived a first-round 75 and then shot rounds of 64-68-65 for the title. He also made the cut at the U.S. Open and the British Open, tying for 16th at Royal Troon.

United States
Bob Tway - He had his best performance of the season at another World Golf Championships event-the NEC Invitational, where he tied for sixth. He also tied for ninth at The INTERNATIONAL and had a 10th-place performance at the Nissan Open early in the year.

Scott Verplank - Verplank came close to winning at the Ford Championship at Doral. But he lost in a playoff to Craig Parry. He made the cut in all four majors, with his best finish a tie for seventh at the British Open. He's had a total of six top-10s this season, including a tie for seventh at THE TOUR Championship.

Wales
Bradley Dredge - He's played exclusively on the European Tour in 2004, with his only top-five finish of the season coming at the Canarias Open de Espana. He tied for fifth that week.

Phillip Price - His best European Tour finish came when he tied for fifth at The Heritage in September. He also had 12 PGA TOUR starts, turning in his top performance of 2004 at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (tied for 17th).