Children's Miracle Network Classic: Final-round notes

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Martin Laird retained his PGA TOUR card with a tie for 21st finish in Orlando.

• Davis Love III has played in 570 events with 450 made cuts, 165 top-10 finishes and 20 wins on the PGA TOUR.

• Love III played the last 57 holes of the tournament without a bogey.

Gainey

• Tommy Gainey has played in 23 events with six made cuts, one top-10 finish and no wins.

• Gainey finished the tournament in the top-10 in fairways hit (T6, 45/46), greens in regulation (T10, 58/72) and putts per round (T3, 26.8).

• Love III began the Fall Series at No. 150 on the TOUR money list and ended at No. 48.

• Love's previous low 72-hole score on the PGA TOUR was a 265, accomplished four different times including the 1993 Las Vegas Invitational (1, five-round event), 1996 Las Vegas Invitational (2, five-round event), 2003 The Honda Classic (T2) and the 2004 Sony Open (3).

• Gainey shot four rounds in the 60s this week at Disney. He has 15 rounds in the 60s out of 62 career rounds.

• Gainey earned $496,800 with his second-place finish at the Children's Miracle Network Classic. His previous best was $18,720 at the Turning Stone Resort Championship.

Love III

• With his second-place finish at Disney, Gainey moved from No. 228 on the money list to No. 148 to earn a partial exemption on the TOUR for 2009 and makes him exempt into the final stage of Q-School.

• Love III's post-cut 36 hole score of 128 is the best in tournament history.

• Gainey earns a spot in the Sony Open in Hawaii based on his top-10 performance at Disney.

• Prior to this year, Scott Verplank played 13 times at the Children's Miracle Network Classic dating back to 1988.

Verplank

• Verplank has made 13 consecutive cuts at the Children's Miracle Network Classic, which is the longest active streak for the tournament.

• Steve Marino bogeyed the second hole of the final round to end a streak of 59 holes without a bogey going back to the 14th hole of the final round of the Ginn sur Mer Classic. The last player to go bogey-free and win a tournament was Lee Trevino in 1974 (Greater New Orleans Open). The last player to go bogey free and not win a tournament was Bubba Watson at the 2006 Chrysler Classic of Tucson, where he finished T3.

Overton

• Jeff Overton finished 118th on the money list to earn his TOUR card for 2009. Overton underwent an appendectomy on Oct. 21 and finished T18 a week later at the Ginn sur Mer Classic to move from No. 126 to No. 125 on the money list. Two days prior to the surgery, Overton was at No. 122 on the money list following his T69 at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

• Verplank has a streak of 15 straight rounds at par or better dating back to the first round at the BMW Championship in September. The current leader in rounds at par or better is Marino, with 18.

• Verplank has been at par or better at the Disney event since 2004, a streak of 19 straight rounds. Verplank only has five rounds over-par in the 53 career rounds at the Children's Miracle Network Classic.

• Love III has appeared 16 times at the Children's Miracle Network Classic presented by Wal-Mart. Love has seven top-10 finishes in his career at this event, which ties Larry Nelson and Payne Stewart for the most in tournament history. All of Love's top-10s have been inside the top five -- the most of any player.

• Erik Compton, playing on a sponsor exemption, shot a 6-under 282 to finish T60 just five months after his second heart transplant. Compton last played in a PGA TOUR event in 2005 with a T44 at the Ford Championship at Doral. Coming into this event, Compton had played in 11 PGA TOUR events since 2000, making the cut five times. Compton played in his first PGA TOUR event as an amateur in 2000.

• Davis Love III now has 15 consecutive rounds in the 60s at this event which is the longest active streak and breaks the tournament's all-time streak of 14, previously held by Tiger Woods.

• Steve Marino has tallied 49 made cuts in 65 career starts with 23 top-25 finishes and 10 top-10 finishes. His best career finish (2) came this year at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.

• Love's $1,955,950.30 in career winnings at Disney is the highest in tournament history ahead of Tiger Woods ($1,542,166.67) and Vijay Singh ($1,525,303.57).

• Six of the seven Fall Series winners this season were at No. 125 or higher on the money list prior to their win. The complete list of winners in the Fall Series includes:

• Martin Laird is the only player to move into the top 125 on the money list following the Children's Miracle Network Classic. Shane Bertsch dropped out of the top 125 after missing the cut at Disney. Below is a current look at the cut line for the final 2008 PGA TOUR Money List: