JELD-WEN Tradition: Final-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff SUNRIVER, Ore. -- With his victory at the JELD-WEN Tradition on Sunday, Mark McNulty wins for the sixth time on the Champions Tour in his 82nd career start. The victory was his first in almost two years (2005 Administaff Small Business Classic near Houston).  Tom Kite's tie for fourth gave him a top-five finish for the fourth time in the last five years. (Stan Badz/PGA TOUR/WireImage)
• McNulty earns a check for $390,000 and increases his 2007 earnings to $601,213, which moves him into 20th place on the money list. He came into the event 51st on the current money list. It also increases his Champions Tour earnings to $4,462,173 and his all-time earnings to $5,119,909. • The victory also earns McNulty a full Champions Tour exemption for one year as well as a five-year exemption into the MasterCard Championship at Hualalai. • McNulty earns 780 points in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup race based on double points being awarded in major championships this year and is now 12th in the standings. Jay Haas (finished tied for 14th) is the current leader with 2,213 points, followed by Brad Bryant (tied for 21st) with 2,019 and Loren Roberts (1,841; finished tied for fourth). By virtue of his tied-for-fifth finish, Tom Watson moved into fourth place with 1,430 points ahead of Denis Watson (1,417; finished tied for ninth). • McNulty's five-stroke win was the third-largest victory margin in tournament history. Doug Tewell holds the record of nine strokes in 2001 and Gil Morgan won by six strokes in 1997. • McNulty, a native of Zimbabwe, becomes the third international player to win the JELD-WEN Tradition crown. The previous winners were Australian Graham Marsh (1999) and Venezuelan Eduardo Romero (2006). • McNulty also becomes the second Zimbabwe native to claim a major title on the Champions Tour in 2007. Denis Watson became the first when he won the Senior PGA Championship. • McNulty becomes the 16th different winner in 21 events on the Champions Tour. He is also the first player to win a tournament after not posting a top-10 finish earlier in the same year since Ron Streck in 2005 at the Commerce Bank Championship. • McNulty was the only player of the 79 who started the event to finish all four rounds under par. • This also marks the second time in his Champions Tour career that McNulty earned a win by multiple strokes. He was an eight-stroke victor over Gary McCord at the 2004 SBC Championship and won by five strokes over David Edwards at Crosswater this week. • By virtue of his tie for fourth and check for $140,000, Loren Roberts went over the $20 million mark in career earnings. He now has won $20,018,018 in his PGA TOUR/Champions Tour career. • Jay Haas saw a pair of streaks come to a close on Sunday. With his tie for 14th finish, Haas streak of consecutive top-10 finishes ended at eight and he also saw his string of top-10 finishes in major championship end at three. • Tom Kite's tie for fourth gave him a top-five finish for the fourth time in the last five years. He was also tied for fourth in 2004 and 2006 and tied for second in 2003. In the 20 rounds he has played since the event moved to Oregon, Kite has been in the 60s nine times. • It was another nice showing by recent 3M Championship winner D.A. Weibring. Two weeks after his win in Minnesota, Weibring finished third, his fifth top-10 finish in his last six starts. Weibring also moved into sixth place in the Charles Schwab Cup race with 1,271 points. • Sunday's scoring average was the highest of the four rounds at 73.667 and the field averaged 72.857 for the tournament. The averages for the previous three days were 72.295 on Thursday, 72.304 on Friday and 72.873 on Saturday. • Defending champion Eduardo Romero bounced back from a 2-over-par 74 start on Thursday to tie for 14th. He was tied for 53rd after the opening round but closed with a 2-under-par 70. • Corvallis, Ore., resident Bob Gilder finished strong, shooting a 6-under-par 66 on Sunday, the low round for the day. He finished tied for sixth. • Hole No. 17 ended up as the most difficult hole in the tournament with an average score of 3.340 (+.340) followed by No. 18 at 4.317 (+.317). As it was all four days, No. 2 was the easiest with a scoring average at 4.771 (-.229). • Peter Jacobsen withdrew after two holes in Sunday's final round due to a lower back injury. • Dick Mast had the fewest putts in the event 105, one fewer than Mark McNulty and Kenny Knox. • Morris Hatalsky led all players in driving accuracy at 92.86% (52 of 56) and Denis Watson led in Driving Distance at 304.9 yards. Tom Watson led all players in Greens in Regulation, hitting 56 of 72 (76.39%). • Mark McNulty had the most birdies with 25 followed by Tom Watson with 21. Mark O'Meara was the only player to post a bogey-free round on Sunday. Tom McKnight waited until the final day to hit the longest drive of the tournament. McKnight had a 340-yard effort on No. 16 on Sunday. |
