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By Joan Alexander
PGA TOUR Staff

LEMONT, Ill. -- Sunday's final round of the BMW Championship will be in twosomes off the first tee starting at 8:00 a.m. CT.

Steve Stricker, with caddie Tom Michell, has converted two 54-hole leads into victories. (Jeff Gross/WireImage)

STEVE STRICKER'S

54-HOLE LEADS ON THE PGA TOUR

Tournament Lead Finish 2007 Barclays 1 over Choi 1 1998 PGA Championship tied/w Singh 2 1998 Buick Open tied/w Mayfair T6 1996 Western Open 5 over Janzen 1 1996 Sony Hawaiian Open tied/w Faxon 3 1995 Buick Challenge tied/w Funk T8

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• On Sunday afternoon, the BMW Championship will see the 65 players in the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup pared down to the final 30 players who will qualify for THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola next week. The BMW Championship is the first of two no-cut playoff events as players have four rounds this week to move into the top 30 to make THE TOUR Championship

• Lucas Glover was inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame Saturday during halftime of the Clemson vs. Louisiana-Monroe football game game in Death Valley. Since he was unable to attend, his parents represented him at the game. Glover is the grandson of Dick Hendley, a Clemson Hall of Fame inductee in 1984. Hendley played football and baseball at Clemson from 1946-51. This is the first grandfather and grandson Hall of Fame combination in Clemson athletic history.

• Saturday's scoring average of 69.292 is the lowest single-round average in tournament history. In fact, the single round average for any round has never dipped into the 60s. The next-lowest scoring averages at Cog Hill are 70.254 in the fourth round of 2001 and the 70.308 of the second round this year.

• There are five players with the opportunity to post four rounds in the 60s this week: Tiger Woods, Aaron Baddeley, Tim Clark, Justin Rose and Steve Stricker. Woods has posted six consecutive rounds at Cog Hill in the 60s going back to the second round last year, but he has never put together four rounds in the 60s in the same year at the BMW Championship.

• Steve Stricker was perfect Saturday, hitting all 18 greens in regulation. The University of Illinois grad is only the second player to accomplish that feat at Cog Hill since 1997. Joe Durant was also 18-of-18 during the third round in 1998, the year he won the tournament.

• Steve Stricker has been a leader or co-leader after 54-holes six other times in his PGA TOUR career. He converted two of those six into wins, including this year at The Barclays, the first of the four FedExCup Playoff events. He also won the 1996 Western Open, now the BMW Championship, when he lead by five strokes over Lee Janzen at Cog Hill through 54 holes.

• The cream is rising to the top of the list for the FedExCup Playoffs. Out of the top 10 on the list, eight players are ranked in the top 10 on the Official World Golf Rankings and nine of the 10 are on the top of the PGA TOUR season money list.

• Tiger Woods has a strong track record at Cog Hill GC with three victories and seven top-10 finishes in 11 career starts. He has been runner-up in Lemont in each of the past two seasons. In all three of his victories at Cog Hill GC he has shared or held the 54-hole lead. In 1997, he shared the lead with Justin Leonard and Loren Roberts. In 1999 and 2003 he had a four and six stroke lead respectively. Woods has come-from-behind to win after 54-holes 17 times out of his 56 stroke play victories.

• Since turning professional in 1996, Tiger Woods' third-round scoring average at Cog Hill G&CC is 67.10 (10 rounds). Even more impressive is Woods' third-round average the past five years: 67.20.

• It's no surprise that both Steve Stricker (64) and Tiger Woods (65) posted good scores today. Stricker ranks No. 1 in Third-Round Scoring Average this year (68.69) and Woods ranks No. 4 (69.38).

• Despite his success in this event over the years, Tiger Woods has not been at the top of the leaderboard at the end of any round since he won the event in 2003, when he went wire-to-wire.

• Twice this season Tiger Woods has come-from-behind to win through 36 holes. He was seven strokes back of 36-hole leader Brandt Snedeker at the Buick Invitational and four strokes back of Rory Sabbatini after round two of the World Golf Championship-Bridgestone Invitational.