AT&T Classic: Final-round notes  PGA TOUR Staff • Today's playoff was the 11th in tournament history and the third since the event moved to TPC Sugarloaf in 1997: • This is Johnson's second come-from-behind win this year. He was two shots off the pace entering the final round at the Mastes Tournament and was three off the lead entering today's final round. • Imada's runner-up finish this week was his career best. The former Georgia Bulldog's previous best was a fifth-place at the 2005 Booz Allen Classic. • Cink registered the first double-eagle at TPC Sugarloaf since the tournament arrived in 1997. Cink used a Driver/hybrid from 241 yards for his double-eagle-2 at the 566-yard, par-5, 6th hole. Cink is the fifth player to make a double-eagle on the PGA TOUR this year and the third in two weeks: Tim Petrovic AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am round 3 • More on the double-eagle by Stewart Cink: • Cink had 12 birdies this week, giving him 144 for his career at TPC Sugarloaf -- more than any other player over the past 11 years. Cink has averaged 3.78 birdies for each of the 38 rounds he has played here since 1997. Phil Mickelson is now second on the list with 138 total birdies. • Troy Matteson had his first top-10 finish of the 2007 campaign. The former Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket finished tied for third after a final-round 73. His previous best finish was a T11 at the season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship. • Chris Tidland had his career-best finish this week. The former Oklahoma State standout wound up at 11-under 277 and tied for sixth. This is Tidland's 46th career start on the PGA TOUR. His previous best effort was a T23 at the 2001 Southern Farm Bureau Classic. In his only other full season on TOUR, Tidland earned $191,738 in 29 starts. This week he collected a paycheck of $180,900 and moved up from No. 236 on the money list to No. 150. • Rookie Stephen Marino posted his third top-10 finish of the season with his T6 this week. Marino finished No. 42 on the 2006 Nationwide Tour money list and moved up through his T8 finish at the 2006 PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament. Marino was 8th at the Mayakoba Golf Classic and T10 at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. He has now moved up to No. 60 on the FedExCup list and No. 63 on the money list. • Darron Stiles set a tournament record this week with four eagles. Stiles made an eagle during each of the four rounds. He eagled the par-5, 18th on Thursday and Friday and then eagled the par-5, 6th on Saturday and Sunday. The PGA TOUR record for eagles in one tournament is five, set by Dave Eichelberger at the Hawaiian Open in 1980 and later matched by David Love III in that same event in 1994. • Olin Browne made only his third start of the season this week and posted a 6-under-par 66 on Sunday to wind up at 10-under 278 and tied for ninth. Browne withdrew from the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic back in January and missed the cut at THE PLAYERS Championship last week. • Briny Baird tied for ninth this week, his first top-10 finish of the year. His previous best was a T16 at the Wachovia Championship three weeks ago. • Robert Gamez also tied for ninth, his first top-25 finish in 15 starts this year. Gamez has not had a top-10 finish since he won the 2005 Valero Texas Open. • Camilo Villegas moved up the leaderboard quickly on the front nine, holing an 87-foot chip shot for eagle on the par-5, 6th hole and then rolled in a birdie putt of 20 feet on No. 7 to get to 13-under par and two shots back of the leader, Ryuji Imada, at the time. Villegas started the back nine with a double-bogey, bogey combination to fall five off the pace. He rallied with three consecutive birdies starting at No. 12. He ended up at 12-under par and tied for third • Veteran Neal Lancaster enjoyed his best week in quite some time. The 44-year old North Carolina resident finished at 6-under 282. His T24 showing was his first top-25 finish since a T13 at the 2005 B. C. Open. His best finish last year in 19 PGA TOUR starts was a T41 at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. • Maybe there's something about the state of Georgia that Zach Johnson enjoys. Below is his record at the three PGA TOUR events contested in the Peach State:
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WITH THIS VICTORY: ZACH JOHNSON • Earns his third career victory on the PGA TOUR and his second of the 2007 season at the age of 31 years, 2 month and 26 days. Earns his third career victory in 103 PGA TOUR starts: 2004 BellSouth Classic • Earns 4,500 FedExCup points to move to No. 4 in the FedExCup standings through 21 events of the 36-tournament PGA TOUR Regular Season, with 12,327 points. He is 4,390 points behind No. 1 Tiger Woods. • In five career AT&T Classic starts, has two wins and three top-5 finishes. • Has collected $2,341,650 at the AT&T Classic to maintain his second place position on the tournament money list, $618,766 behind three-time champion Phil Mickelson. • Becomes the ninth player to win the BellSouth Classic multiple times, joining Phil Mickelson (3), Bob Lunn (2), Jack Nicklaus (2), Hale Irwin (2), Jack Larry Nelson (2), Wayne Levi (2), Tom Kite (2) and Scot McCarron (2). • Becomes the third player to win the Masters Tournament and the AT&T Classic in the same year -- Phil Mickelson in 2006 and Tom Watson in 1981. • Collects his second win of the season in 12 starts in 2007 season. It is the first time he has recorded multiple victories in a single season on TOUR. • Becomes the fourth multiple winner in 2007, joining Tiger Woods (Buick Invitational, World Golf Championships-CA Championship, Wachovia Championship), Phil Mickelson (AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, THE PLAYERS Championship)and Vijay Singh (Mercedes-Benz Championship, Arnold Palmer Invitational). • Collects a paycheck of $972,000 and improves his season total $2,960,894. |
