Final-round notebook: U.S. Bank Championship

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• What a difference a year makes -- here's a look at Richard S. Johnson's final round in 2007: First player off the tee as a single at 8:52 a.m. and was done at 10:13 a.m. for a total time of 81 minutes. Johnson hit 6 of 13 fairways, 11 of 18 greens, had 29 putts and shot an even-par 70.

• Dean Wilson (T3) played Nos. 1-4 in six-over par in the second round. Outside of those four holes, he was 19-under-par for the tournament.

• There were seven players that held or shared the lead during the final round: Ken Duke, Joe Ogilvie, Richard S. Johnson, Chad Campbell, Gavin Coles, Nick Flanagan and Troy Matteson.

• Richard S. Johnson becomes the sixth player from Sweden to win on the PGA TOUR, joining Daniel Chopra Jesper Parnevik, Gabriel Hjertstedt, Carl Pettersson and Henrik Stenson.

• Richard S. Johnson is the first winner of the U.S. Bank Championship since Scott Hoch (1997) to post a round in the 70s en route to victory, having posted a third-round 70. The last 10 winners had carded four rounds in the 60s.

• With his ace in the first round on No. 14, Richard S. Johnson becomes the first player to record a hole-in-one and win the event since Jim Furyk at the 2007 Canadian Open.

• The final-round 64 for the winner Richard S. Johnson is the lowest final-round for a PGA TOUR winner in 2008 and the lowest since a 63 by Tiger Woods at the BMW Championship.

• Defending champion Joe Ogilvie (T6) became the first player since Kenny Perry (2003-2004) to follow up a victory with a top-10 in Milwaukee. The U.S. Bank Championship (since 1968) and THE PLAYERS Championship (since 1974) are the two longest-running tournaments without back-to-back winners. Corey Pavin missed the cut last year in the defense of his 2006 title.

• Richard S. Johnson's victory marks the second consecutive come-from-behind winner at the U.S. Bank Championship, having trailed by one entering today's action. Last year, Joe Ogilvie became the first come-from-behind winner in Milwaukee since 2002 when he made up a one-shot deficit on overnight leader Tim Herron to claim his first PGA TOUR title last year.

• Kenny Perry (T6) edged closer to Tiger Woods in the FedExCup standings with a total of 391 points this week. With a total of 20,824, he is 1,871 points behind Woods (out for the season) with five events left in the PGA TOUR Regular Season.

• In Kenny Perry's last 37 rounds at Brown Deer Park Golf Course, he has posted par-or-better scores in 35 times, including four rounds in the 60s this week. His only two hiccups were a final-round, 3-over-par 73 in 2005, and a final-round 71 in 2007.

• After a slow start to the 2008 campaign, Kenny Perry has now notched three wins and a total of six top-10s in his last eight starts. In his last four starts, 15 of his last 16 rounds have been in the 60s including all four this week.

• Kenny Perry has eight top-10s, including a victory in 2003, in 13 career starts at the U.S. Bank Championships.

• Kenny Perry matched the U.S. Bank Championship back-nine scoring record at Brown Deer Park Golf Club with a 6-under-par 30. Perry notched four birdies and an eagle in his final nine holes. The eagle came at No. 16 where he holed out from 145 yards with a 9-iron.

• Four players tied for low final-round honors with matching 64s: Kevin Na, Kenny Perry, Bob Tway and Omar Uresti.

• There were four bogey-free rounds on Sunday: Chris Riley, Alejandro Canizares, Bob Tway and Bob Heintz.

• Chris Riley, a member of the 2004 United States Ryder Cup squad, finished T3 for his first top-10 since the 2006 Valero Texas Open. He and former UNLV teammate Chad Campbell tied for third along with current Las Vegas resident Dean Wilson.