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  • FedExCup Points: 50,000
  • Purse: $1.26 million
  • Winning Share: $1,260,000
  • Yards: 7,154
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THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola: Round 4 Notebook
 
Sep. 16, 2007

Tiger Woods is now 41-3 when he has at least a share of the 54-hole lead. Woods was 1-2 in this event and 0-2 at East Lake Golf Club prior to holding on to win today:

Not Always Obvious
Year Course Overnight Margin Sunday Score Result
1999 Champions Golf Club led by 3 shot 69 won by 4
2000 East Lake Golf Club tied with Singh shot 69 second by 2 strokes
2004 East Lake Golf Club tied with Haas shot 72 second by 4 strokes
2007 East Lake Golf Club led by 3 shot 66 won by 8

Tim Clark polished off a nice run on the FedExCup points list with his T7 this week. Clark's finish helped him jump from No. 27 to No. 21 on the final list, which is a marked improvement from No. 136, where he stood after missing the cut at the AT&T Classic in mid-May.

• Clark moved steadily up the points list after that, aided by a runner-up finish at the John Deere Classic, which moved him from No. 108 to No. 57. A T2 the following week at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee got him to No. 39 and a T6 at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational put him No. 34. Clark needed a late push at the BWM Championship (T5) moved him up from No. 33 to No. 27 and qualified him for THE TOUR Championship.

Zach Johnson couldn't make it a Georgia-triple this week, but the Masters and AT&T Classic champion gave it a run with his T2 finish. Nobody was better in the state this year than Johnson, who finished 1-1-T2 in the three PGA TOUR events held in the state. Tiger Woods came close with a T2 at the Masters and a win this week, but Woods did not play in the AT&T Classic at TPC Sugarloaf. Johnson moved from No. 12 to No. 7 in the final FedExCup points list.

• With his T2 this week, Mark Calcavecchia now has 27 runner-up finishes his career. Below is a list of the current active players and the most runner-up finishes:

The Chasers
Player Career Second-place finishes
Davis Love III 29
Mark Calcavecchia 27
Tiger Woods 23
Vijay Singh 23

• How good is Tiger Woods playing these days? In his last five starts, he has four wins and a T2. In that stretch over 20 rounds of play, Woods is a collective 75-under par and has a scoring average of 66.65.

• Tiger Woods was 40 of 40 on putts inside of 3' this week. He was 63 of 68 on putts of 10' or less. For the week, Tiger Woods holed putts that measured 388' 3", which ranked him third overall. His longest of the week, an eagle putt of 70' 4" on the par-5, 9th hole during the second round was his longest made putt of the year.

• Here are the top point-getters in ONLY the four FedExCup Playoff events: The Barclays, Deutsche Bank Championship, BMW Championship, THE TOUR Championship:

Playoff Points
Player Total points in final four weeks Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Tiger Woods 23,033 --- 3,733 9,000 10,300
Steve Stricker 14,505 9,000 1,250 3,400 855
Phil Mickelson 11,358 1,613 9,000 --- 745
Aaron Baddeley 8,300 350 2,000 5,400 550

• Tiger Woods' career-best 72 hole scores:

Another Record
Score Year Tournament Finish
257 2007 THE TOUR Championship 1
259 2000 WGC-NEC Invitational 1
261 2006 WGC-American Express 1
262 2007 BMW Championship 1
263 1997 GTE Byron Nelson Classic 1
263 2002 WGC-American Express 1
264 2005 Ford Championship at Doral 1
264 2006 Buick Championship 1

• With his win today, Tiger Woods has pushed his season money total to $10,867,052. Phil Mickelson is currently No. 2 on the list with $5,819,988 and Vijay Singh is No. 3 with 4,728,376.

• There are seven tournaments left in the PGA TOUR's Fall Series and if a player were to win all seven, he would collect $5,778,000 for those wins. That being said, if Mickelson were to play and win all seven, he would surpass Woods for the money title with $11,597,988.

• However, if Singh were to win all seven, his money earnings of $10,506,376 would not be enough to overtake Woods -- even if Woods does not earn any more money this year.

Close, but not quite
Here is the PGA TOURs All-Time Scoring Records for 72 holes:
Score Player Under Par Tournament
254 Tommy Armour III 26-under par 2003 Valero Texas Open
256 Mark Calcavecchia 28-under par 2001 Phoenix Open
257 Mike Souchak 27-under par 1955 Texas Open
257 Tiger Woods 23-under par 2007 THE TOUR Championship

• The past two weeks, Tiger Woods has put together scores of 22-under and 23-under par. His 45-under-par total ranks as one of his best back-to-back efforts in his career. He was 48 under in the 2002 WGC-American Express Championship and the 2002 Disney Golf Classic.