AT&T National: Final-round notebook
By Joan Alexander and Joel Schuchmann, PGA TOUR Staff
BETHESDA, Md. -- Due to a threatening late-afternoon forecast on Sunday, the final-round tee times were moved to 8-10 a.m. in threesomes off Nos. 1 and 10, with a 3 p.m. finish scheduled. The CBS telecast of the final round was tape-delayed from 3-6 p.m.
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• Anthony Kim, 23, the winner of the Wachovia Championship earlier this year at the age of 22 years, 10 months and 15 days, joins Tiger Woods (4), Phil Mickelson (2) and Kenny Perry (2) as a multiple winner in 2008. Kim entered Saturday's third round tied for third with Cliff Kresge, three behind Jeff Overton and Tom Pernice Jr.
• The last two players with multiple TOUR victories in one season under the age of 24 were Adam Scott (2004) who won THE PLAYERS Championship and the Booz Allen Classic at the age of 23, and Sergio Garcia (2001) who won the both the MasterCard Colonial and the Buick Classic in 2001 at the age of 21.
• Anthony Kim birdied No. 1 all four days this week at Congressional Golf Club. When he won the Wachovia Championship in May, he birdied No. 1 all week at Quail Hollow Club.
• Fredrik Jacobson posted his second top-10 of the season with his second-place finish at the AT&T National. It is his second runner-up finish in 114 career TOUR starts.
• Rod Pampling closed with a 5-under 65 on Sunday to finish tied for third. It was his fifth top-10 of the season. His best finish of the season was a tie for second with Tim Clark, one stroke back of Phil Mickelson at the Crowne Plaza invitational at Colonial back in May.
• Jim Furyk closed with a 4-under 66 to finish tied for third. It is his fifth top-10 on TOUR this season. Furyk finished tied for third last year at the AT&T National and is one of only two players to post top-10s in each of the first two AT&T National events.
• Robert Allenby finished tied for third for his fourth top-10 finish in his last six starts, including losing in a playoff to Justin Leonard at the Stanford St. Jude Classic a month ago. It is his sixth top-10 of the season in 18 starts, tied for second with Geoff Ogilvy and Tiger Woods for second behind Stewart Cink's seven.
• Dean Wilson finished tied for third for his best finish since his tie for second at the 2006 Valero Texas Open. Wilson has one other top-10 this season, a tie for 10th at THE PLAYERS Championship.
• Nick O'Hern finished tied for third on Sunday at the AT&T National. His career best finish in 75 TOUR starts is a tie for second at the 2006 Booz Allen Classic, which was played just down the street at TPC Avenel.
• 48-year-old Tommy Armour III (tied for third) has posted five top-10s in his last 10 starts, including a tie for second at the Travelers Championship his last time out. The five top-10s match a career best of five (1999) and his earnings ($1,384,526) are a career high. He moves to 33rd in the FedExCup standings. Coming off a second-place finish in Hartford two weeks ago with four rounds in the 60s, Armour has continued his good play this week at the AT&T National, posting four rounds in the 60s. The eight consecutive rounds in the 60s is a PGA TOUR best for Armour.
• Alex Cejka finished tied for ninth on Sunday thanks to closing rounds of 68-66. Cejka records his 18th career top-10 on the TOUR in his 176th start. He has four top-10s this season, including a tie for fourth at the Stanford St. Jude Classic.
• Jeff Overton collected his first top-10 of the season with his tie for ninth on Sunday, his first top-10 of the season. Overton's last top-10 came in the last event of the 2007 season at Walt Disney World Resort, he finished tied for sixth.
• The 54-hole leader Tom Pernice, Jr. posted a 2-over 72 on Sunday to drop to a tie for ninth, his fifth top-10 of the season.
• Players that have made the cut at the last four playings of a PGA TOUR co-sponsored event at Congressional Country Club (1997 U.S. Open, 2005 Booz Allen Classic, 2007 AT&T National and 2008 AT&T National) are Jim Furyk, Stuart Appleby and Fred Funk.
• Last year there was not a single player in the field to post four rounds in the 60s, while in 2008 edition there were four players who managed to put together four rounds in the 60s this week. They are Anthony Kim (67-67-69-65?268), Tommy Armour III (67-69-66-69?271), Robert Allenby (68-69-67-67?271) and Patrick Sheehan (69-67-69-68?273).
• There were only two eagles recorded by the field over the weekend and both came on Sunday at the par-5 16th. John Merrick was the only player with multiple eagles for the week; he had two eagles in the second round on holes No. 9 and No. 18.
• Anthony Kim earned second career PGA TOUR victory in his 42nd career start on the PGA TOUR at the age of 23 years, 17 days -- two months and two days after his last win at the Wachovia Championship (38th start)
• He earned 4,500 FedExCup points to move into fifth on the FedExCup Regular Season list through 29 events, with 13,580 points.
• As a multiple winner this year, Kim earned three-year exemption on the PGA TOUR that will take him through the 2011 season.
• His victory came in his second start at the AT&T National, having finished tied for 25th in 2007. His 268 total betters K.J. Choi's winning 2007 total (271) by three strokes. He also moved from eighth to sixth in United States Ryder Cup standings.
• Kim joins Tiger Woods (4), Phil Mickelson (2) and Kenny Perry (2) as a multiple winner in 2008. The last two players with multiple TOUR victories in one season under the age of 24 were Adam Scott (2004), who won THE PLAYERS Championship and the Booz Allen Classic at the age of 23, and Sergio Garcia (2001), who won the both the MasterCard Colonial and the Buick Classic in 2001 at the age of 21.
• Kim collected a winner's check of $1,080,000 and moves to fifth on PGA TOUR Official Money List with $3,256,622. His career earnings now stand at $5,139,883.
• Kim is the ninth different player (total of 10 wins) in his 20s to win on the PGA TOUR in 2008, joining D.J. Trahan (Bob Hope Chrysler Classic), J.B. Holmes (FBR Open), Sean O'Hair (PODS Championship), Andres Romero (Zurich Classic of New Orleans), Johnson Wagner (Shell Houston Open), Trevor Immelman (Masters Tournament), Adam Scott (EDS Byron Nelson Championship) and Sergio Garcia (THE PLAYERS Championship).
• Kim became the seventh player since 2000 to win multiple times in the same season as his first victory, joining Sergio Garcia (2001), Jose Coceres (2001), Len Mattiace (2), Jerry Kelly (2), Todd Hamilton (2), Padraig Harrington (2).
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