Notes: Stanford St. Jude Championship

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• Look out for David Toms this week at the Stanford St. Jude Championship. Toms is a two-time winner of the tournament and has finished in the Top-10 in his last six starts in Memphis. He's 72-under par and has 19 rounds in the 60s in his last 24 rounds at the course. Strangely enough, he did not have a Top-10 in his first 10 career starts in Memphis.

• This will be the 20th consecutive year the TPC Southwind has hosted the Stanford St. Jude Championship. Despite having only two par-5s, the course yielded 23 eagles last year. On the other hand, 53 triple bogeys or worse were recorded last year, the most of any course on TOUR with the exception of Oakmont, site of the U.S. Open.

Perry

• Last week's winner, Kenny Perry, began the year by missing the cut at the Sony Open in Hawaii. He hasn't missed one since. Perry has made the cut in his last 14 starts this season and has climbed to fourth in the FedExCup standings.

• If you take the back nine of his first round and the front nine of his second round, Mathew Goggin needed only 20 putts last week at the Memorial Tournament. He holed out from off the green three times in that 18 hole stretch and one-putted 10 times. Goggin finished the week in a career-best equaling T2.

• In the previous 50 years of the Stanford St. Jude Championship, only three international players have won -- Gary Player (1974), Nick Price (1993 and 1998) and Greg Norman (1997). That could change this week as 35 international players are entered at the event, including Masters champion Trevor Immelman and PLAYERS champion Sergio Garcia.

• Jerry Kelly has had a yo-yo start to his season. He's missed the cut in half of his 16 starts, but he's finished tied for second twice and third once. He's 29th in the FedExCup standings after moving up 19 places following his tie for second last week at the Memorial Tournament.