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CA Championship: Final-Round Notebook
 
Mar. 25, 2007

MIAMI -- Sunday's weather: Partly cloudy and continued breezy with an afternoon high in the lower 80's. Winds are forecast to increase out of the east/northeast at 15-25mph.

Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods has proven unique in his ability to conquer Doral. (Chris Condon/PGA TOUR/WireImage)
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
DORAL SCORING AVERAGE
Day Front 9 Back 9 Total
Thursday 36.658 36.740 73.397
Friday 35.658 36.452 72.110
Saturday 35.836 36.726 72.562
Sunday 36.694 37.250 73.944

• The par-4 closing hole at the Blue Monster gave up 13 birdies this week, including three on Sunday. In fact it played +.625 strokes over par for the week, making it the third toughest closing hole since 1983. Geoff Ogilvy is the only player who hit No. 18 green in regulation all four days.

• The toughest closing holes on the PGA TOUR since 1983 are Colonial CC (+.811 in 1988), Doral (+.751 in 1985), Doral (+625 in 2007), English Turn (+.610 in 1991), and the Disney Palm Course (+.577 in 1986).

Tiger Woods has had plenty of success at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa's Blue Course. In 20 rounds there, he is 74 under, going 31 under on the front nine and 43 under on the back nine. His lowest 18-hole score was a 63 in the third round of the 2005 Ford Championship, and his highest was his 73 today.

• Tiger Woods fired a 1-over 73 on Sunday to win the World Golf Championships-CA Championship by two strokes. The last time he fired an over-par score and went on to win was at the 2005 WGC-NEC Invitational, when he recorded a 1-over 71 at Firestone Country Club-South Course.

• He also posted over-par final rounds and went on to win at the 1999 WGC-NEC Invitational (71 on a par-70); 1999 National Car Rental Golf Classic at Walt Disney World Resort (73 on a par-72); 2002 U.S. Open (72 on a par-70); 2003 WGC-American Express 72 on a par-70); and the 2005 WGC-NEC Invitational (71 on a par-70).

• Woods has also had remarkable success on the Blue Course's first hole. He has birdied or eagled No. 1, a 529-yard par 5, 18 of the 20 times he has played it, including the last 16 in a row (2007, Rd 3 was first eagle).

• Tiger Woods' scoring average in the final round when holding at least a share of the 54-hole lead is 69.21.

• Tiger Woods has won 13 of 24 official World Golf Championships events, including four of the last six dating back to the 2005 WGC-NEC Invitational.

• Tiger Woods earned his sixth victory at the WGC-CA Championship. It marks the first time he has recorded six wins in a single tournament.

Sergio Garcia tied for third place, giving him six top-10 finishes in eight career starts in the WGC-CA Championship. He has three top-10s in five starts in 2007, including back-to-back top-5 finishes.

Robert Allenby (T3) notched his TOUR-best sixth top-10 of the 2007 campaign this week. Charles Howell III has five, while Jeff Quinney and Vijay Singh both have four.

Shingo Katayama recorded the only eagle of the day on Sunday. There were a total of 12 for the week. There was not a single bogey-free round posted on Sunday. There were a total of seven bogey-free rounds for the week.

• No player was able to string together four rounds in the 60s this week at the Blue Monster Course. Since 1962, just 13 players have been able to record four rounds in the 60s on the fabled Blue Monster course at Doral Golf Resort & Spa, including Tiger Woods in 2006. Jim Furyk has done it twice. Before Woods in 2006, Furyk was the last winner to post four rounds in the 60s.

Justin Rose and Davis Love III will split 73rd and 74th place money. Love receives unofficial money and Rose's money goes to a designated charity of his choice.

Ernie Els currently has the longest consecutive cut streak on the PGA TOUR at 46. Jim Furyk is second with 19.

• Tiger Woods earns his 56th career PGA TOUR victory at the age of 31 years, 2 months and 25 days in his 218th (204th professional) career start on TOUR. He also earned 4,725 FedExCup points to sit in third for the season, with 10,044 points, 1,801 points behind leader Vijay Singh.

• For 2007, he won his second PGA TOUR victory in four starts. And he recorded his 13th official World Golf Championships victory in 24 starts and has now earned $17,182,500 in official money at World Golf Championships events. The win is his 11th in 16 individual stroke-play World Golf Championships events.

• He has won a World Golf Championships event in every year since they began in 1999. He has won the the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006; the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in 2003, 2004; and the WGC-CA Championship in 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007. He also won the 2000 World Cup with David Duval in 2000, an unofficial money WGC event.

• Woods is the first player in tournament history to win the CA Championship six times (1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007), and he now has recorded 22 of 32 rounds at the tournament in the 60s. His scoring average at the tournament is 68.218

• He remains the tournament's all-time leading money winner with $7,312,500, and he surpasses the $7 million mark for the first time in a single event. He also becomes the second multiple winner of the season (Vijay Singh is the other) and collects at least two wins in a season for the 10th time in his 12-year PGA TOUR career.

• With his paycheck of $1,350,000, he improves season earnings to $2,467,058, and he surpasses the $68 million mark in career PGA TOUR Official Money with $68,179,382.

• Woods becomes a six-time winner at a single event for the first time in his career (1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007). In eight appearances at this event, he has never finished outside the top-10. Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Alex Ross and Harry Vardon recorded at least six victories in a single event on the PGA TOUR.

• Woods wins for the ninth time in the state of Florida. His wins have comes at the Bay Hill Invitational (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003); FUNAI Classic at Walt Disney World Resort (1996, 1999); Ford Championship at Doral (2005, 20006); THE PLAYERS Championship (2001); and World Golf Championships-CA Championship (2007).

• His 56th career PGA TOUR victory is the fifth-most in TOUR history. Arnold Palmer stands in fourth with 62 victories.

• Woods wins for the 39th time (of 42) when holding at least a share of the 54-hole lead on the PGA TOUR. His current streak stands at nine -- the last time Woods failed to win when leading was at the 2004 TOUR Championship, where he was overtaken by Retief Goosen on the final day after being the co-leader entering the final round with Jay Haas.

• This marks the 18th time he has successfully defended a title and the third time he has defended a WGC-CA Championship. For the 2007 season, he defends his title for he second time this season. He won the Buick Invitational earlier this year defending there for the second year in a row.

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