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Number Crunch: Frys.com Open
 
Oct. 10, 2007
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This week the PGA TOUR returns to the fabulous Las Vegas for the Frys.com Open. Much like the Valero Texas Open before it, Las Vegas has been kind to first-time PGA TOUR winners -- including one Tiger Woods.

NUMBER THAT YOU COULD USE TO IMPRESS A FRIEND

1the number of par-73 courses on the 2007 PGA TOUR schedule, the Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii (island of Maui) which is home to the Mercedes-Benz Championship. The course plays 7,411 yards, eighth longest of all the courses played in 2007. The extra stroke comes on the par-37 back nine, where there is only one par-3.

.NUMBER THAT MAKES YOU SCRATCH YOU HEAD

3The number of players that were disqualified from last year’s Frys.com Open, Ryuji Imada, Fred Couples, and Woody Austin. Imada got stuck in traffic coming to the golf course on Saturday and was more than five minutes late for his scheduled tee time. Couples and Austin were disqualified later the same day for stopping play before it was officially suspended by darkness.

.OTHER INTERESTING NUMBERS

5The number of players that have earned more than $1 million dollars at this event alone throughout their careers (Jim Furyk, Stuart Appleby, Billy Andrade, Bob Estes, and Davis Love III).
6The number of players who won their first PGA TOUR event at the Frys.com Open (Jim Furyk, Tiger Woods, Phil Tataurangi, Andre Stoltz, Wes Short, and Troy Matteson).
12The number of times Jim Furyk has finished in the top-25 at the Frys.com Open. He has won the event three times, and has earned a total of $2,129,619 at this event alone. This is an average of $163,818 per entry at the Frys.com Open.
19The number of times this event has been played as a 90-hole tournament (five rounds). It has been played as a standard 72-hole (four rounds) only five times, as it will be this year.
69.8The average score for last year’s event. Troy Matteson won the event with an average score of 66.3, leading the field average by 3.5 strokes. He won the event by one stroke over Daniel Chopra with a four-round total of 265 (22-under par).
90The number of players at 5-under par, which made the cut at last year’s Frys.com Open, from a field of 144 entrants.
606Yards that is. As in the longest hole at the TPC Summerlin, the host course for this week’s Frys.com Open. The par-5 13th hole played as the fifth easiest hole in last year’s event, with an average score of 4.79.
1878The mint year on the replica of the Morgan Liberty Head Silver Dollar that sits atop the Fry’s.com Open trophy. Much of the silver that was used to produce these coins were mined in the area of Nevada surrounding TPC Summerlin -– hence its significance to this event. In quintessential Las Vegas fashion, years ago the winner would be presented his winnings via a wheelbarrow of silver dollars poured onto the 18th green.
$900,000The winner’s share of this year’s $5,000,000 purse. The median prize money for a player who makes the cut will be approximately $19,000. The last place finisher will earn approximately $9,000.

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