Notes from the PGA TOUR

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• Here's what a couple of good weeks can do for you in the FedExCup points race. Two weeks ago, Sean O'Hair was 162nd on the points list and would not have qualified for the PGA TOUR Playoffs. After a win in Tampa and a T3 last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard, he's in fifth place in the points standings. He already has more points this season (5981) than he did in all of the 2007 season (4580).

• Tiger Woods will be looking for his seventh World Golf Championships-CA Championship this week at Doral. He's won his six previous titles on six different golf courses in four different countries. He has a history of success at Doral. He won the CA Championship there last year and won the last two years of the old Ford Championship at Doral.

• If he wins this week's CA Championship, Tiger Woods will be just one victory at the event shy of tying another record -- Sam Snead's eight wins in one event, the Greater Greensboro Open.

• More on Tiger: He's won his last five TOUR starts, including all three this year. Here's a good reason why -- he's number one in Greens In Regulation (75%) and number one in Putting (1.685).

• There are 23 players still in their 20s competing this week at the CA Championship hailing from 11 different countries.

• They are not related, but the certainly stuck together last week. Zach, Richard and Dustin Johnson all finished in a T54 last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard.

• The first official PGA TOUR event in Puerto Rico will take place this week as well. The Puerto Rico Open presented by Banco Popular will debut with a 132- man field. Unofficial TOUR events were held on the island from 1958 through 1967 with winners including Charlie Sifford, George Knudson and Art Wall.

• You have to score well to win. Pretty obvious, but only two of the Top 10 players in Scoring Average have won this season -- Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.

• Tiger Woods' 24 foot 2 inch winning putt at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard was the fourth longest final-hole winning putt in the ShotLink era. Padraig Harrington (65 feet 7 inches) at the 2005 Barclays, Spike McRoy (31 feet 1 inch) at the 2002 B.C. Open and Vijay Singh (26 feet 8 inches) at the 2004 Zurich Classic of New Orleans were the only players to hole longer putts to win on the final green by a single stroke.