ACE Group Classic Final-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff NAPLES, Fla. -- With his victory Sunday at the ACE Group Classic, Bobby Wadkins earn 240 Charles Schwab Cup points and a check for $240,000. Loren Roberts took over the lead in the Schwab Cup race with 419 points and Jay Haas is second with 353 points. • Hale Irwin remains third with 290 points. Tom Watson is fourth with 288 points and Tom Kite rounds out the top five with 249 points. At the end of the official season, the player earning the most points will receive a $1 million annuity.  Bobby Wadkins hoisted his fourth Champions Tour trophy. (Kevin C. Cox/WireImage)
• Bobby Wadkins' victory Sunday, coupled with older brother Lanny's win at Pelican Marsh in 2000, made the Wadkins the first set of brothers to claim titles in Naples. It's happened two other times on the Champions Tour. Mike and Dave Hill both won the Fairfield Barnett Space Coast Classic (Dave in 1987, Mike in 1990) in Melbourne. Dave (1988) and Mike (1993) also claimed the PaineWebber Invitational in Charlotte. • Bobby Wadkins also became the 16th different winner in the 20-year history of the event. His previous-best performance in four trips to Naples was a T10 in 2004. • Bobby Wadkins' fourth career triumph today came in his 148th start on the Champions Tour. On the PGA TOUR, he made 465 cuts in 712 starts and had six second-place finishes. • Bobby Wadkins' first-round 64 equaled the lowest start by a winner in tournament history. In 1999, Allen Doyle opened with a 64 en route to his first career title on the Champions Tour. • The winner of the ACE Group Classic has now come out of the final grouping in each of the last seven years. • Mike Reid's T3 finish was his best performance on the Champions Tour since T3 at last year's Puerto Vallarta Blue Agave Golf Classic. • Quail West averaged 71.442 for the week, compared to a field average of 71.200 last year at The Club at TwinEagles. • Defending champion Loren Roberts' 6-under 66 Sunday now gives him 29 consecutive rounds of par/better. Roberts' par/better streak dates back to an opening-round 67 at the Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach last fall. Roberts finished T5 in defense of his title in Naples and has now started the 2007 season with five consecutive top 10s. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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