E-Notebook: Zurich Classic of New Orleans

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• Last week's World Golf Championships-CA Championship wasn't just good for winner Geoff Ogilvy, it was also good for Adam Scott, Zach Johnson, Retief Goosen and Nick O'Hern. That quartet of world-class players each earned his first Top-10 finish of the season last week.

Nick O'Hern

• More on Ogilvy: He's now the third player to win more than one World Golf Championships title joining Tiger Woods and Darren Clarke.

• With his fifth-place finish last week at the CA Championship, Tiger Woods went over the $80-million mark in career earnings.

• Winning has many rewards and among them is a substantial jump up the FedExCup points list. CA Championship winner Geoff Ogilvy climbed from 79th all the way to 10th while Puerto Rico Open presented by Banco Popular winner Greg Kraft surged from way back in 162nd place up to 37th.

• This week's Zurich Classic of New Orleans comes 70 years after the first New Orleans stop on the PGA TOUR. While the event is 70 years old, this will be the 60th playing of the tournament. The TOUR didn't stop in New Orleans in 1943, 1947 and from 1949-57.

• When Greg Kraft won last week in Puerto Rico at the age of 43 years, 11 months and 19 days, he became the oldest first-time winner on the PGA TOUR since Ed Dougherty won the 1995 Viking Classic at the age of 47 years, 8 months and 19 days.

• While a strong field has assembled in New Orleans this week, you might want to look for a first-time winner to emerge. The last three winners in the Crescent City were first-timers?Nick Watney, Chris Couch and Tim Petrovic. In fact, five of the last six winners of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans won for the first time.