U.S. Open: Final-round notebook  PGA TOUR Staff Angel Cabrera fired rounds of 69-71-76-69 -- 285 score making him the first champion to win with a score 76 since Johnny Miller in the third round in 1973 at Oakmont Golf Club. Cabrera earned 4,950 FedExCup points to move into 26th on the points list through 25 events, with 5,789 total points. Coming into the week, Carbrera was 155th. It is the second consecutive week that a player has moved from outside the 144 mark to inside the top-30. Cabrera becomes the 14th player to record his first PGA TOUR victory at the U.S. Open going back to 1916, joining Michael Campbell (2005), Retief Goosen (2001), Ernie Els (1993), Jerry Pate (1976), Lee Trevino (1973), Orville Moody (1969), Jack Nicklaus (1962), Jack Fleck (1955), Julius Boros (1952), Sam Parks (1935), Johnny Goodman (1933), Bob Jones (1923). Sunday was just the second time that Tiger Woods has played in the final pairing at a major championship, but did not hold at least a share of the lead through 54 holes. Earlier this year he was one-stroke back of playing partner Stuart Appleby at the Masters Tournament and was in the final grouping. In Augusta, Zach Johnson came from two-strokes back of Appleby to win by two-strokes over Rory Sabbatini, Retief Goosen and Woods. Woods has never won a Major Championship title in come-from-behind fashion; he is 0-29 at major championships. Below is a list of tournaments when Woods is five or less strokes back of the lead through 54 holes at a major championship.
Tiger Woods' second-place finish gave him his fifth career top-three finish at the U.S. Open. Only seven other golfers have had at least five top-three finishes at the U.S. Open: Jack Nicklaus (9), Bobby Jones, Jr. (8), Ben Hogan (8), Gene Sarazen (7), Arnold Palmer (6), Sam Snead (5) and Julius Boros (5). Tiger Woods collected 2,420 FedExCup points with his T2 finish and remains at the top of the FedExCup regular season points list. He has 3,706 points lead over Phil Mickelson who remains in second. Jim Furyk, who tied Tiger Woods for second-place, finished in second for the second consecutive year at the U.S. Open. The last golfer to finish a Major in second place in consecutive years was Greg Norman at The Masters in 1986 and 1987. In the last 90 years of the U.S. Open, Furyk is the fourth golfer to finish in the runner-up spot in consecutive years: Bobby Jones (1924, 1925), Ben Hogan (1955, 1956) and Arnold Palmer (1962, 1963 and 1966, 1967). Players with top-10s in the first two majors of 2007 • Tiger Woods (T2 Masters Tournament, T2 U.S Open Championship) Tiger Woods has surpassed the $70 million mark in career earnings on the PGA TOUR with his $611,336 payday at the U.S. Open. He has now earned $70,587,751. Tiger Woods has won 10 of his 12 (42 professional starts) major championship titles on par-72 courses during his career on the TOUR. Oakmont Country Club played as a 7,229-yard par-70. U.S. Open champion receives: U.S. Open and the Majors: Angel Cabrera's 5-over-par winning total is identical to the score of 2006 winner Geoff Ogilvy. It is the eighth time the winning total has been over par since the USGA went to 18 holes over four consecutive days in 1965.
In the 107-year history of the U.S. Open, 47 players holding at least a share of the lead through 54 holes have gone on to victory, including six of the last nine -- Payne Stewart (1999), Tiger Woods (2000), Retief Goosen (2001), Tiger Woods (2002), Jim Furyk (2003) and Retief Goosen (2004). The last three winners have won in come-from-behind fashion. Swedens' Niclas Fasth finished alone in fourth place just two shots behind the winner Angel Cabrera. Fasths' fourth-place finish is the best ever by a golfer from Sweden in the U.S. Open. The previous best finish in a U.S. Open by a golfer from Sweden was Fredrik Jacobson at Olympia Fields in 2003, where he tied for fifth. Angel Cabrera's 1-under-par final round score marks just the second time in the last seven year that the champion shot under par in the final round and won. Michael Campbell recorded a final-round 69 when he won in 2005.
There were only two sub-par rounds on Sunday, turned in by Anthony Kim (67) and champion Angel Cabrera (69). On the week, there have been eight scores in the 60s. Kim jumped from T57 to T20 with his round of 67 and Cabrera came from six stroke back to of the 54 hole lead to win. The Most Top-10s in Majors (since 2000) There have been 401 major championship tournaments played through the 2007 U.S. Open Championship. Out of those 400 majors, 193 different players have won. Of those 193, 74 players have won two or more majors For the second day in a row, the opening hole the 482-yard par 4 was the most difficult hole of the day on Sunday. The field averaged 4.413 strokes and there was only one birdie posted on the hole out of the 63 players who made the cut. Stephen Ames was the only player to make birdie on the par-4 1st hole. There were four holes that yielded 2-or-less birdies, No. 8 (2 birdies), No. 9 (2 birdies), No. 16 (6 birdie) and No. 1 (1 birdie) |
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