J.J. Henry - Media Guide

at the Valero Texas Open and record his second top-10 finish of the season. Played the final five holes on Sunday in 3-under in order to jump into the top 10.

start as an amateur in 1998. First state-born player to win the Buick Championship and 11th first-time winner in 55-year history. The three-stroke victory was the largest there since Brent Geiberger defeated Skip Kendall by three in 1999. Win earned an exemption into the British Open and jumped him to sixth on the U.S. Ryder Cup team points list with seven weeks to go...Finished eighth on the U.S. Ryder Cup team list to make his first Ryder Cup team. Compiled an 0-0-3 record...Earned a spot in the field for the first time at THE TOUR Championship, finished T12...Teamed with Stewart Cink at the Barbados World Cup. 2005: Opened 67-67 and trailed leader Arjun Atwal by one stroke after 36 holes at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, finished T5. It was his best effort since finishing T5 at the 2004 Southern Farm Bureau Classic...Best finish was a T4 at the Reno-Tahoe Open, six strokes behind wire-to-wire champion Vaughn Taylor. Cracked the top 100 (No. 85) on the TOUR money list with $124,000 payday...Finished T5 at the Valero Texas Open for the second consecutive year. Finished five back of winner Robert Gamez with four rounds in the 60s at LaCantera. 2004: Finished T5 at the Valero Texas Open with four rounds in the 60s, five shots behind champion Bart Bryant. Collected $118,650, enough to secure his TOUR card for 2005...Two weeks later, matched his best TOUR finish in over two years (T3 at the 2002 Reno-Tahoe Open) with a T3 at the Southern Farm Bureau Classic, thanks in part to closing rounds of 66-65. 2003: Only top-10 was T9 at the BellSouth Classic...Put together back-to-back top-20s in August to help secure his card for the 2004 season. 2002: Had a slow start to the year but two top-10s along with 11 straight cuts in the second half of the season was the key to his season...After almost withdrawing due to mother-in-law's cancer diagnosis, dedicated week of Buick Open to her, finishing T10 for first top-10 of season...Carded four sub-par rounds at the Reno-Tahoe Open for second top-10 of year, a T3. 2001: Had a successful rookie campaign on TOUR, making 15 of 28 cuts and earning $1,073,847, good for 49th on the money list. First-year earnings were fourth among 2001 rookies. Had five top-10s, including two seconds, at Kemper Insurance Open and Texas Open. 2000: Member of the Nationwide Tour. Entered 29 Nationwide Tour tournaments and finished in the top-10 five times...Earned his first career title at the Knoxville Open, defeating four others by one stroke and collected the $72,000 first-place check. 1999: Finished T2, one stroke behind Glen Hnatiuk at the Nationwide Tour Tri-Cities Open...Posted four consecutive rounds in the 60s to finish T4 at the Greensboro Open. 1998: Turned professional in the summer after finishing at TCU. Amateur: 1998 Golfweek/Taylor Made Co-College Player of the Year...Named to the 1998 Palmer Cup team...1998 WAC Player of the Year...WAC Championship tournament medalist...Individual runner-up at the 1998 NCAA Championships...1998 First team All-American...Winner 1998 New England Amateur...1996 Connecticut Player of the Year...Winner of the 1994, 1995 and 1998 Connecticut State Amateur...Member of the 1995 Stoddard Cup team.

was his hole-in-one on the 17th hole in the last round of the 1998 WAC Championship to win both the team and individual title...In 2006, founded the Henry House Foundation, which provides health care and well being for families in Ft. Worth, Texas and southern New England. A golf tournament and gala are held annually to support the foundation.

Open...was one shot off the lead after 36 holes at the 1999 Dominion Open...turned professional in the summer of 1998...has participated in three PGA TOUR events in his career, one as an amateur and two as a professional...1998 Golfweek/Taylor Made Co-College Player of the Year...Named to the 1998 Palmer Cup team...1998 WAC Player of the Year...WAC Championship tournament medalist...Biggest thrill in golf was his hole-in-one on the 17th hole in the last round of the 1998 WAC Championship to win both the team and individual title...Individual runner-up at the 1998 NCAA Championships...1998 First team All-American...1996 Connecticut Player of the Year...Winner of the 1994 and 1995 Connecticut State Amateur...Member of the 1995 Stoddard Cup team...Was an all-conference basketball player in high school...undefeated in four years of high school competition (76-0-2)...brother Kevin is currently a member of the University of Tulsa golf team.