Shell Houston Open: Final round notebook  PGA TOUR Staff HUMBLE, Texas -- With his win in the Shell Houston Open Sunday, Adam Scott earns 4,500 FedExCup points and jumps from 29th to sixth in the FedExCup standings with 7,392 points. Vijay Singh remains in first place with a total of 11,845 FedExCup points on the strength of two PGA TOUR victories.  Adam Scott and his caddie celebrated Scott?s fifth official PGA TOUR victory. (Kevin C. Cox/WireImage)
• Adam Scott is the sixth Australian to win the Shell Houston Open, along with Bruce Devlin (1972), Bruce Crampton (1983, 1975), David Graham (1983) and Robert Allenby (2000) and Stuart Appleby (1999, 2006). Scott played his final 36 holes bogey-free. • Bubba Watson (T2) moved from 41st to 18th in the FedExCup standings, as he earned 2,200 points this week, with a total of 4,369 for the season. Watson finished second in Driving Distance behind Angel Cabrera on the week, averaging 317.9 yards off the tee in eight measured drives. • Bubba Watson (T2) was attempting to become only the second lefty to win the Shell Houston Open. New Zealand's Bob Charles won the Houston Classic in 1963, thus becoming the first left-handed player to win a PGA TOUR event. Watson posted his career-best finish, his previous being a T3 at the 2006 Chrysler Classic of Tucson. • The T2 for Stuart Appleby was the 11th runner-up of his career in 293 starts. His last runner-up was in 2004 at the Bay Hill Invitational. • Tom Byrum, Tim Clark and Brian Gay led the field with two eagles apiece this week. • Adam Scott (26 years, eight months, 16 days) is the youngest winner of the Shell Houston Open since David Duval (1998) won at the age of 26 years, five months, 24 days. Scott is the fifth-youngest winner in tournament history, and the 23rd player in his 20s to win in Houston. • Five players looking for their first PGA TOUR win finished in the top 10 this week: Bubba Watson (T2), Robert Garrigus (T5), Anthony Kim (T5), Hunter Mahan (T5) and Johnson Wagner (T9). A total of 13 players have won their maiden TOUR event at the Shell Houston Open, the last being Robert Allenby in 2000. • Adam Scott will be looking to become the first player since Gary Player (1978) to win the Masters and the Shell Houston Open in the same year. He has posted top-10s in his last two major starts -- at T8 at the 2006 British Open and a T3 at the 2006 PGA Championship. In his career, Scott has logged four top-10s in 23 starts. His best Masters finish was T9 in his first start in 2002. • Adam Scott has two PGA TOUR victories in his last six starts, his last being the 2006 season-ending TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola. • Adam Scott led the field in front-nine scoring this week, as he finished 14 under over the four days, averaging 32.50 strokes per round on the first nine holes. He averaged 35.25 on the back nine. • Two-time Shell Houston Open champion Stuart Appleby (1999, 2005) was looking to join Vijay Singh (2002, 2004, 2005) and Curtis Strange (1980, 1986, 1988) as three-time winners of the Shell Houston Open.
• The Tournament Course at Redstone Golf Club ranks as the 12th toughest course thus far on the PGA TOUR, averaging 72.050 strokes per round per player. The 18th hole averaged 4.322 and was T10 among most difficult holes on the PGA TOUR this year. The 18th at Doral Golf Resort & Spa ranks as most difficult thus far at 4.625. • His victory Sunday was Adam Scott's fifth official PGA TOUR victory in his 95th start on TOUR at the age of 26 years, 8 months, 16 days. His previous wins came at the 2003 Deutsche Bank Championship, the 2004 PLAYERS Championship, 2004 Booz Allen Classic, 2005 Nissan Open (unofficial 36-hole win) and 2006 TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola. He also owns seven international victories. • Scott becomes the sixth Australian to win the Shell Houston Open, joining Bruce Devlin (1972), Bruce Crampton (1975), David Graham (1983), Robert Allenby (2000) and Stuart Appleby (1999, 2006). He also continues the trend of international winners of the Shell Houston Open over the past nine years, joining Stuart Appleby (1999, 2006), Robert Allenby (2000) and Vijay Singh (2002, 2004, 2005). And he becomes the fourth consecutive foreign-born winner of the Shell Houston Open. • His winner's check of $990,000 increases Scott's SHO earnings $1,126,708 and moves him to No. 3 on the tournament's all-time money list behind Vijay Singh and Stuart Appleby. • Scott's victory from three strokes off the pace is the largest comeback at the Shell Houston Open since David Duval rallied from six back in 1998. And his final-round 66 is the best by a tournament winner since Duval's 64 in 1998. • Scott's weekend rounds of 65-66--131 represent the second-lowest final-36 hole total by a tournament winner. Ron Streck posted rounds of 68-62--130 while winning the rain-shortened 1981 Michelob Houston Open. • Scott earns $990,000 for his win and pushes his season earnings to $1,710,546. He jumps to No. 6 on the money list, and tops the $1 million mark for the fifth consecutive year. He vaults from 41st to 31st on the all-time PGA TOUR money list with $14,687,762. • Scott joins Aaron Baddeley and Charles Howell III as 2007 PGA TOUR winners in their 20s, and becomes the second Australian to win on TOUR this year, joining FBR Open champ Aaron Baddeley. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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