Toshiba Classic: Final-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- With his win at the Toshiba Classic on Sunday, Jay Haas claims his seventh career title on the Champions Tour in just his 40th career start and earns a check for $247,500. Haas has now won $4,597,300 and average of $114,933 per start.  Jay Haas took over the lead in the Charles Schwab Cup standings. (Steve Grayson/WireImage)
• Haas' 19-under-par total of 194 set a new Toshiba Classic record, shattering the old mark of 17-under-par 196 of Hale Irwin in 2002. It was also the seventh-best score (tie) in a 54-hole Champions Tour event. • Haas took over the lead in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup race with his victory on Sunday. Haas now has 601 points and leads runner-up Loren Roberts (418 points) by 183 points. R.W. Eaks (328), Hale Irwin (290) and Tom Watson (288) round out the top five. • Haas became the sixth different winner in six Champions Tour events in 2007 and he also takes over the lead in the money race with $635,500. • Loren Roberts tied Larry Nelson's record for consecutive rounds par/better on the Champions Tour of 32, finishing with a 4-under-par 67 on Sunday. Roberts' string began last September Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. He'll have the opportunity to break the record when he competes on Friday at the AT&T Champions Classic in Valencia, Calif. • Ben Crenshaw's T3 finish was his best finish on the Champions Tour. His previous bests were a pair of T4 efforts (2003 3M Championship and 2006 AT&T Championship). Joe Ozaki finished T3 and it matched his best finish as a Champions Tour performer. • Ozaki was also T3 at the 2006 Greater Kansas City Golf Classic. As an open qualifier for the Toshiba Classic, Ozaki's top-10 finish also earned him a spot in this week's AT&T Champions Classic. That will also mean one less player will be eligible from Tuesday's open qualifier at the TPC Valencia. Only eight players from that qualifier will advance to the AT&T Champions Classic. • Peter Jacobsen showed no effects of his back surgery nearly two weeks ago. He finished T5 for his best effort since a T4 at last year's AT&T Classic. • Denis Watson turned in a strong performance in his first visit to the Toshiba Classic. Watson finished T5 after rounds of 67-69-65. Earlier this year, Watson was T2 at the Turtle Bay Championship. • Allen Doyle continued his solid play at Newport Beach Country Club with a T9 finish. In nine starts, Doyle has seven top-10 finishes and owns 20 rounds in the 60s in 26 starts. He has posted just two rounds over par (opening-round 75 in 2004 and final-round 73 last year). He is a combined 69 under par and is second in all-time career earnings, with $660,617. • R.W. Eaks' second-place finish matched his career best at the 2006 Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn, where he lost to Andy Bean in a playoff and the 2006 The ACE Group Classic. Eaks has earned $329,968 in five appearances. At this point last year he had won just $196,230. • The field averaged 69.722 for the 54-hole tournament, nearly a stroke-and-a-half lower than the 2006 average of 71.201. There were 145 rounds below par in the event and 112 in the 60s. • The most difficult hole was No. 17 with an average score of 3.205 (+.205). The hole yielded just 18 birdies. The easiest was No. 15 with an average of 4.419 (-.581). There were 12 eagles and 120 birdies in the tournament. Only six players made bogey and one player made a double bogey. • Veteran John Jacobs posted his first top-10 finish since the 2005 Bruno's Memorial Classic when he finished T9 on Sunday. • Mark O'Meara grabbed a T5 finish, his second straight top-10 finish on the Champions Tour. • The tournament drew 80,000 for the week, including 25,000 on Sunday. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
