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By Stewart Moore
PGA TOUR Staff

HARRISON, N.Y. -- Steve Stricker, who had not played at The Barclays since 1995, carded a final-round 69 on Sunday on his way to claiming his fourth career PGA TOUR title.

K.J. Choi finished second Sunday and is second in the points. (Mike Ehrmann/WireImage)

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

ROOKIES IN THE PLAYOFFS

Player Seed Finish Now Brandt Snedeker 9 MC 14 Anthony Kim 42 T17 35 Steve Marino 63 T69 63 John Mallinger 68 T72 71 George McNeill 113 MC 114 Doug LaBelle II 121 T41 120 John Merrick 124 MC Out Johnson Wagner 127 T65 Out Ryan Armour 131 T21 Out Michael Putnam 141 MC Out Andrew Buckle 143 T65 Out

• Barclays Leaderboard

• Stricker collects 9,000 FedExCup points and moves into first on the points list with 104,950 points. Tiger Woods falls from first to first to fourth with 100,000 points. K.J. Choi (102,900) and Rory Sabbatini (100,650) stand second and third, respectively. Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the points standings, thus setting up a Woods-Mickelson-Singh pairing for Friday and Saturday at next week's Deutsche Bank Championship

• Stricker becomes the seventh player in his 40s to win on the 2007 PGA TOUR and records the eighth victory by a player in his 40s.

• Stricker becomes the first player since Sergio Garcia to record four rounds in the 60s on his way to claiming the title at The Barclays. Geoff Ogilvy was the only other player in the field to card four rounds in the 60s.

• Steve Stricker becomes the 11th 54-hole leader to claim victory at that event on the PGA TOUR in 2007.

• This marks the first time in his career that K.J. Choi has not won after leading a PGA TOUR event through 36 holes (4-1).

• Rory Sabbatini's third-place finish is his sixth top-three finish on the 2007 PGA TOUR.

• Mark Calcavecchia, who was as high as fifth on the 2007 FedExCup points list after capturing the PODS Championship, fired a final-round 65 and finished tied for fourth, his first top-10 on the PGA TOUR since the Zurich Classic (T5). Calcavecchia's 65 is his lowest final round in a PGA TOUR event since the 2005 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.

• Only two players who entered the week lower than 120th in the FedExCup points (Doug LaBelle II and Rich Beem) were able to advance to the second round of the Playoffs. LaBelle tied for 41st this week and moved from No. 121 up to No. 120. Beem, who was ranked No. 134, tied for seventh, and moved up to No. 113. LaBelle birdied the par-5 18th on Sunday and wound up 25 points ahead of Steve Allan, who finished 121st.

• The cumulative scoring average of 70.900 is the lowest average at Westchester Country Club since 1983, when the PGA TOUR began keeping such statistics. The previous low was 71.351 in 2004.

• The arduous par-4 12th hole maintained its reputation as a giant killer this week with a scoring average of 4.251, making it the most difficult hole at Westchester Country Club for the 10th straight year.