Top 100 players to watch in 2011: No. 99 Cameron Beckman

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Finding consistency will be the key for Cameron Beckman as he heads into his 13th season on the PGA TOUR. After all, the 2010 campaign was a feast-or-famine season where he made just nine cuts in 25 starts -- the second lowest total of his career.

Winning at Mayakoba Discussing his victory Shooting 61 in Dallas

That said, there was one very big bright spot when Beckman won the Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun. The victory was the 40-year-old's third on the PGA TOUR and his second in the last three years.

Beckman did manage to finish in the top 10 twice in the other eight times he made the cut, which upped his percentage considerably and contributed to just the third seven-figure season of his career.

While his putter got hot in Mexico, Beckman will likely be putting some extra time in on the practice green during the offseason after ranking 152nd in putting average and 127th in putts per round. He didn't exactly give himself many opportunities, though -- Beckman found just 66 percent of his greens in regulation.

Quiet and powerful -- and he wins when he gets the chance.

All or nothing in 2010, but he's exempt through 2012 for winning the Mayakoba Golf Classic. Fair value at the bottom of full-season rosters, but that's it. Couldn't participate in a charity event in Mexico in mid-November due to a tendon injury in his right hand.

Here's how Cameron Beckman has ranked in three key categories in the last five years

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010*   149th 166th 98th 118th 176th 112th 82nd 116th 77th 314th 241st 201st 243rd 234th

* - end of 2010 PGA TOUR season

HOW THE RATINGS ARE COMPILED
Power Rating: An aggregate score based on several Off the Tee statistics used to measure a player's performance off the tee. The statistics used to compute this are: Driving Distance, Percentage of Drives over 300 yards and Percentage of Drives over 320 yards.
Accuracy Rating: An aggregate score based on several Off the Tee and Approach the Green statistics used to measure a player's overall accuracy from tee to green. The statistics used to compute this are: Driving Accuracy, GIR over 100 yards and Proximity to Hole over 100 yards.
Short Game Rating: An aggregate score based on several Around the Green statistics used to measure a player's performance 100 yards and in (not including putting). The statistics used to compute this are: Scrambling, Proximity to the Hole (PTH) from sand, PTH from Rough, PTH from fringe, PTH from less than 100 yards and Greens in Regulation from less than 100 yards.
Putting Rating: An aggregate score based on several Putting statistics used to measure a player's performance on the green. The statistics used to compute this are: Putting Average, Putting inside 5 feet, Putting from 5-15 feet, Putting from 15-25 feet, Average distance of putts made and 3-putt avoidance over 25 feet.
Scoring Rating: Score used to measure a player's performance on scoring. The statistic used to compute this is Scoring Average.