AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am: Rd. 3 Notebook
By Stewart Moore, PGA TOUR Staff
AMATEUR/TEAM SCORES: Third-round results
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Two-time PGA TOUR winner Dudley Hart and 31-time TOUR winner Vijay Singh sit tied atop the leaderboard at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am with 54-hole totals of 9-under 207.
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• This marks the fifth time in Hart's PGA TOUR career in which he has been a leader/co-leader through 54 holes. He went on to win the 1996 RBC Canadian Open, tied for seventh at the 1994 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, tied for third at the 1993 Chrysler Classic of Tuscon and tied for fourth at the 1992 Chrysler Classic of Tucson.
• Hart's tie for seventh finish at the 1994 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is his only top-10 effort at this event in 11 attempts.
• This marks the 31st time in Singh's PGA TOUR career in which he has been a leader/co-leader through 54 holes. He has claimed 19 titles when in that position and has never finished outside the top five.
• Singh has played four events on the PGA TOUR this year without a single top-10 finish. The last time he failed to record a single top-10 in his first five events of the year was in 1997 when his first top-10 came in his 10th start, a win at the Memorial Tournament.
• Hart is playing on a Major Medical Extension in 2008 and has 15 events to earn $485,931, which would combine with his 2007 earnings ($299,249) to equal No. 125 on the 2007 money list ($785,180). Hart was limited to 12 starts on the PGA TOUR last year after his wife Suzanne was diagnosed with a non-smoking related tumor in her lungs in May and subsequently had two-thirds of one of her lungs removed. Coupled with his 2008 earnings of $10,971, Hart needs to finish in a two-way tie for second to earn full exempt status for the year.
• The leaders' 54-hole total of 9-under 207 is the highest total to lead after three rounds at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am since Mark O'Meara led with 7-under 209 in 1990.
• While the leaderboard currently looks crowded, history shows the likelihood of a Sunday playoff is slim. The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am currently has the second-longest playoff drought on the PGA TOUR. The last playoff at Pebble Beach came in 1992 when Mark O'Meara defeated Jeff Sluman on the first playoff hole to claim the fourth of his record five titles. THE PLAYERS Championship currently has the longest drought, dating back to 1987 when Sandy Lyle defeated Sluman on the third playoff hole.
• PGA TOUR rookie Dustin Johnson continued his solid play on Saturday with a round of 68 at Pebble Beach. The former Coastal Carolina University All-America standout leads all rookies in FedExCup points and currently sits in 30th on the FedExCup points list after only three starts.
• PGA TOUR rookie Jason Day will be 20 years, two months, and 30 days old on Sunday. Should he win, he would be the fourth-youngest winner in TOUR history. Johnny McDermott won the 1911 U.S. Open at 19 years, 10 months; Gene Sarazen won the 1922 Southern Open at 20 years, five days; and Chick Evans won the 1910 Western Open at 20 years, one month, 15 days.
• Dustin Johnson (tied for third), Michael Allen (tied for third), Jeff Quinney (tied for fifth), Ryan Armour (tied for fifth), Y.E. Yang (tied for fifth), Jason Day (tied for fifth), and Fredrik Jacobson (tied for fifth) are seven players in the top 10 looking for their first PGA TOUR victory. The first-time winners at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am are E.J. "Dutch" Harrison in 1939, Ed Oliver in 1940, John Dawson in 1942, Ed Furgol and George Fazio in 1947, Jack Burke, Jr. and Smiley Quick in 1950, Jay Hebert in 1957, Don Massengale in 1966, John Cook in 1981, Steve Jones in 1988, Brett Ogle in 1993, Matt Gogel in 2002 and Arron Oberholser in 2006.
• Unfortunately, experience is what counts the most at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Only five players since 1970 (and two since 1993) have made the AT&T their first win on the PGA TOUR: John Cook (1981), Steve Jones (1988), Brett Ogle (1993), Matt Gogel (2002) and Arron Oberholser (2006).
• Four past champions of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am are competing this week: Vijay Singh (2004), Davis Love III (2001 and 2003), Phil Mickelson (1998, 2005, 2007) and Peter Jacobsen (1995).
• Defending champion Phil Mickelson missed the 54-hole cut for only the third time in his 13 trips to the Monterey Peninsula.
• There were four bogey-free rounds on Saturday: Dudley Hart (SH), Y.E. Yang (PB), Tag Ridings (PB) and Ted Purdy (PB).
• The third-round leader/co-leader of the last five AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Ams has gone on to win the event. They are Phil Mickelson (tied with Kevin Sutherland) in 2007), Arron Oberholser (tied with Mike Weir) in 2006, Phil Mickelson in 2005, Vijay Singh (tied with Arron Oberholser) in 2004, and Davis Love III in 2003.
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