Final notes: AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Steve Lowery carded a final-round 68 and claimed his third career PGA TOUR title at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am with a playoff win over Vijay Singh. With his win, Lowery collects 4,500 FedExCup points and moves into third on the 2008 FedExCup points list. Singh earns 2,700 points and moves into 11th on the points list. J.B. Holmes moved ahead of K.J. Choi and into first place on the FedExCup points list with 5,010 points.

All three of Lowery's TOUR wins have come from playoffs. (Dunn/Getty Images)

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• Lowery's playoff win today brings his all-time PGA TOUR playoff record to an impressive 3-0. His only prior TOUR titles, the 1994 Sprint International and the 2000 Southern Farm Bureau Classic, both came in playoff victories.

• Singh's all-time playoff record on the PGA TOUR is now 7-3. He lost the 2006 Mercedes-Benz Championship to Stuart Appleby and the 2005 Honda Classic to Padraig Harrington.

• Singh's runner-up finish is the 25th of his PGA TOUR career and his first since the 2007 Canadian Open.

• Singh moves past Davis Love III and into second place on the tournament's all-time money list with earnings of $2,907,415

• Prior to his win today, Lowery was playing 2008 on a Minor Medical Extension after suffering a wrist injury in 2007. He entered the season with eight starts in which to earn $282,558, which would couple with his 2007 earnings of $502,622 to equal No. 125 on the 2007 money list. After today's win, Lowery is fully exempt on the PGA TOUR through the 2010 season.

• Today's playoff marked the first one at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am since 1992 when Mark O'Meara defeated Jeff Sluman on the first playoff hole to claim the fourth of his record five titles.

• Lowery's winning score of 10-under 278 is the highest winning score at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am since Johnny Miller claimed the title with a total of 7-under 281 in 1994.

• Lowery was only 1-under for the tournament and in danger of missing the cut through three holes in Saturday's third round before righting the ship and playing his last 33 holes in 9-under.

• Second-year PGA TOUR player John Mallinger fired a final-round 65 on Sunday, thus earning a T3 finish, his second straight top-5 finish at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Mallinger's 65 is the lowest final-round score at the event since 2001, when Davis Love III shot 63 on Sunday en route to winning his first of two AT&T titles.

• Mallinger was one of only five players on the day to record rounds in the 60s: Mallinger (65), Corey Pavin (66), Steve Lowery (68), Mike Weir (69), and Shane Bertsch (69).

• Dudley Hart birdied the last three holes to finish T3, his best on the PGA TOUR since a playoff loss at the 2004 EDS Byron Nelson Championship. More importantly, Hart earned $312,000 for his finish and now has $322,971 in earnings this year. With his current Major Medical Extension, Hart needs to earn $162,960 in his next 12 events to become fully exempt for 2008.

• Three rookies on the PGA TOUR managed to record top-10 finishes this week: Jason Day (6), Dustin Johnson (T7), and Y.E. Yang (T9).

• Former UCLA star Corey Pavin's T3 finish today is his seventh career top-5 finish in the state of California, including four wins (two each at the Northern Trust Open and the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic).

• Lowery's win today marks the first come-from-behind win in the final round at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am since 2002, when Matt Gogel erased a four-shot Pat Perez lead in the final round to claim his only PGA TOUR title.

• Three players not otherwise exempt for next week's Northern Trust Open finished inside the top 10 this week; however, due to the strength of field next week, they will be placed on the alternate list. Should they not get in, that exemption would carry over to the following week -- Jason Day (6), Dustin Johnson (T7), Nicholas Thompson (T7), Y.E. Yang (T9), and Brent Geiberger (T9).

• Corey Pavin (66) was the only player in the field to record a bogey-free round on Sunday.

• Steve Lowery's statistics for the week: