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• For the second consecutive week, tiny Milton, Fla. (population 7,740), produced a PGA TOUR runner-up. First it was Boo Weekley at The Honda Classic and last week it was Heath Slocum at the PODS Championship.

• With his victory at the PODS Championship, Mark Calcavecchia earned enough FedExCup points to move into the top-10 in the standings and earn a spot in next week's World Golf Championships-CA Championship.

• Vijay Singh has a very enviable record at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, but he'll still be looking for his first win at the event this week. In 14 starts at Bay Hill, Singh has made 14 cuts and has three runner-up (1993-94-05) finishes. He's a collective 84-under par at the tournament and was T7 last year.

• Ernie Els has the current longest consecutive cuts made streak entering this week's stop on TOUR. The South African has made 44 consecutive cuts with his last miss coming at the 2004 Arnold Palmer Invitational. He has a long way to go, though, to match the 142 in a row made by Tiger Woods.

• The T6 for Charles Howell III last week at the PODS Championship was his fifth top-10 finish of the season and boosted his lead in the FedExCup standings to 3,509 points over Phil Mickelson.

• A strong field has assembled this week at the Bay Hill Club & Lodge with seven of the top-10 in the world on hand. In addition, 10 of the 11 tournament winners from this season are entered. Only Fred Funk, who is nursing a bad back, is missing.

• Jose Coceres has already been in two playoffs this season. Only two players in the last 15 years have been in three in one year -- Steve Elkington in 1992 and Vijay Singh in 2005.