- FedExCup Points: 50,000
- Purse: $7.0 million
- Winning Share: $1,260,000
- Yards: 7,547
PGA TOUR Staff
LEMONT, Ill. -- Tiger Woods' winning score of 262 Sunday set a BMW Championship record for low 72-hole score. In fact, the top three players all broke the previous mark of 267 first set by Scott Hoch in 2001 and matched by Woods in 2003.
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• When Steve Stricker's second shot on the par-4 third hole found a greenside bunker, his streak for consecutive Greens in Regulation ended at 25 in a row. Stricker hit the final five greens during his second round, all 18 in the third round and the first two of round four. Stricker's bogey at No. 3 also stopped his bogey-free streak at 34 holes in a row.
• Tim Clark tied the Cog Hill G&CC record with his 29 Sunday. Clark joined Paul Stankowski (1999), Stewart Cink (2006) and Justin Rose (2007-first round) in the record books.
• Tim Clark wasn't the only player to post a bundle of birdies Sunday on the par-35 front nine, which played to a scoring average of 33.985. Stewart Cink and Mark Wilson had 30s, while Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy had 31s.
• The top-30 players on the FedExCup points list will advance to THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola, the fourth and final event in the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. As a result of this week's scores, there were three changes in the top-30 standings. Stewart Cink went from No. 32 to 23, Tim Clark went from No. 33 to 27 and Camilo Villegas jumped from No. 34 to 28. Meanwhile, Jerry Kelly fell from No. 27 to 32, Luke Donald dropped from No. 28 to 31 and Arron Oberholser skidded from No. 29 to 34.
• The top-30 players on the FedExCup points list not only qualify for THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola next week in Atlanta but they also are guaranteed a return trip to Georgia next spring for the Masters Tournament. The top 30 players on the 2007 final money list will also earn a spot in the 2008 Masters.
• Steve Stricker had shot 266 three times in his PGA TOUR career. He finished third Sunday, tied for third at the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open and finished second at the 1998 Greater Milwaukee Open.
• Tiger Woods posted his fifth career final-round 63 on Sunday. He also carded final-round 63s at the 2000 GTE Byron Nelson (tied for fourth), 2001 Verizon Heritage (tied for third), 2002 Disney Golf Classic (third) and 2006 Deutsche Bank Championship (won).
• Looking at the leaderboard when the final group made the turn (at the time) the top seven players (Woods, Stricker, Baddeley, Clark, Scott, Rose and Cink) had made a combined 30 birdies against only 3 bogeys. They were a collective 27 under par at the time and played the first nine holes in an average of 31.14 strokes.
• Tiger Woods improved his front nine each day, starting with a 1-under 34 on Thursday and finishing with a 4-under 31 on Sunday.
• There were seven bogey-free rounds on Sunday, from Tiger Woods (63), Luke Donald and Adam Scott (65s), Ian Poulter and Kevin Sutherland (66s), and David Toms and Boo Weekley (67s).
• Mark Calcavecchia was the first off the tee this morning and played as a single. Calcavecchia played in 2:15 and shot a 3-over-par 74.
• Sunday's scoring average of 69.138 is the lowest single-round average in tournament history. In fact, no single round average had ever dipped into the 60s before this week.
• The top six players in the final standings all posted four scores in the 60s this week.
• This was the first time in Tiger Woods' career that he has posted four rounds in the 60s at Cog Hill in a single tournament. Woods concluded the 2006 tournament with three straight scores in the 60s, bringing his consecutive 60s streak to seven now.
• Tim Clark started the day at 9 under par, six shots back of the leaders but made up ground quickly with a front nine 29 to make the turn at 15 under par. Clark had seven birdies, one par and one bogey on his opening nine holes. The longest of his birdie putts was 13' 0". He missed the green (short) on the par-3 second hole and then failed on his par attempt of 9'. Perhaps more impressive was Clark's two-putt par on No. 7 from 66' 1". Clark's birdie putt caught a slope on wound up 18' 3" from the cup but he rolled that one in to keep his momentum.
• Tiger Woods earns his 60th career PGA TOUR victory at the age of 31 years, 8 months and 11 days in his 229th (215th professional) career start on TOUR.
• He earned 9,000 FedExCup points to regain No. 1 position in the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. No. 2 Steve Stricker is 3,133 points behind Woods heading into THE TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola.
• Woods is now tied for second, with four BMW Championship wins, with Billy Casper and Willie Anderson. Walter Hagen won five between 1916 and 1932. He is also the fifth BMW Championship winner in the last 10 years to post four rounds in the 60s; this is the first time Woods has accomplished the feat en route to winning the BMW Championship.
• In 10 professional starts at the BMW Championship, Woods has made 10 cuts with four wins and eight top-10s. He also made one cut in two starts as an amateur.
• Woods becomes the first six-time winner of the season and collects at least six wins in a season for the fifth time in his 12-year PGA TOUR career. Seven different players (total of 12 times) since 1970 have won six or more times in a season, and Woods has five of those 12.
• Woods' come-from-behind victory was his 18th in 58 career TOUR stroke-play wins, and his fourth of the 2007 season (Buick Invitational, Wachovia Championship, and World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational).
• This is the 29th time he has won an event without holding the 36-hole lead, including three of his six victories in 2007. He came from seven strokes back through 36 holes at the Buick Invitational and came from four strokes back this week at Firestone Country Club.
• The BMW Championship is now the seventh event in which Woods has four or more victories (CA Championship-6; Bridgestone Invitational-6; Buick Invitational-5; Arnold Palmer Invitational-4, Masters Tournament-4, BMW Championship-4, PGA Championship-4).
• Woods' 60th career PGA TOUR victory is the fifth-most in TOUR history. Arnold Palmer is fourth with 62 victories. Woods also surpasses the $75 million mark in career PGA TOUR Official Money with $75,319,376, and he now has won in 27.9 percent (60 out of 215) of his professional starts on the PGA TOUR.
