E-Notes: Dunlap adds another notch to international-win belt

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• When Scott Dunlap won last week's season-opening Panama Movistar Championship, it marked the sixth different country in which he's won an event. Dunlap has won professional events in America, Canada, South Africa, Peru, Argentina and now Panama.

• The 3-under winning score posted by Scott Dunlap last week in Panama was one of the highest winning scores in a 72-hole event in Tour history. Only the even-par score shot by Omar Uresti at last year's Livermore Valley Wine Country Championship at Wente Vineyards and the 1-under shot by Doug Martin at the 1993 South Texas Open were fewer strokes under-par.

• While this week's Mexico Open presented by Corona is a new event on the Nationwide Tour, it's not a new event. In fact, this year's playing of the Mexico Open will be the 50th in its history. It will be the second Nationwide Tour event to be played in Mexico?the Monterrey Open was held from 1993-2001.

• The Mexico Open dates to 1944, when Al Espinosa won the first of four consecutive titles. Throughout history, numerous PGA TOUR players have gone to Mexico and won including World Golf Hall of Fame members Roberto De Vicenzo, Lee Trevino, Billy Casper and Ben Crenshaw. Here is the complete list: