Matt Jones – 2014 Shell Houston winner – Fact File
- With his victory, he wins for the first time on the PGA TOUR in his 156th career start on TOUR.
- The win earns him a berth in next week’s Masters Tournament, his first start in Augusta.
- He earns 500 FedExCup points and is now 16th with 798 points.
- He also earns $1,152,000 with his victory and is now 18th on the current money list.
- He becomes ninth Shell Houston Open winner from Australia and joins Bruce Devlin (1972), Bruce Crampton (1973, ’75), David Graham (1983), Stuart Appleby (1999, 2006), Robert Allenby (2000) and Adam Scott (2007) with that distinction.
- He also becomes the third Australian native to win in the last four weeks, joining Steven Bowditch (Valero Texas Open) and John Senden (Valspar Championship). He is also the fourth overall. Jason Day (WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship) also won earlier this year
- Started the day six strokes behind 54-hole leader Matt Kuchar and his come-from-behind win was the best come-from-behind victory since the event moved to the current course. The all-time record is seven by Mike Sullivan in 1989 and Payne Stewart in 1995 at TPC Woodlands.
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Matt Jones proudly holds the Shell Houston Open trophy. (Photo – www.pgatour.com)
- His previous best showing this year was a T12 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Was T14 in his most recent outing at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
- His best PGA TOUR career finish prior to his win came a year ago when he was T2 at The Greenbrier Classic. That helped lead to a T32 finish in the final FedExCup standings.
- The Australian native spent four full seasons as a member of the Web.com Tour (2004-07).
- A college teammate of Paul Casey at Arizona State where he won All-America honors in 2001.
- Jones was born in the Sydney suburb of Oyster Bay near Cronulla on 19th April, 1980 and now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona.
