Turtle Bay Championship: Final-Round Notebook

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KAHUKU, Hawaii -- Jerry Pate won his second career event on the Champions Tour Sunday at the Turtle Bay Championship and claimed his first title on the circuit since the 2006 Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am (38-event dry spell).

Fulton Allem eagled the final hole to pull into a tie for second. (Condon/PGA TOUR/WireImage)

Inside the Numbers

Final Leaderboard

Player Score 1. Jerry Pate 211 -5 T2. Fulton Allem 213 -3 T2. Jim Thorpe 213 -3 T4. Wayne Grady 214 -2 T4. Loren Roberts 214 -2 T4. Robert Thompson 214 -2 T4. Gil Morgan 214 -2 T8. Denis Watson 215 -1 T8. Keith Fergus 215 -1 T8. James Mason 215 -1 T8. Tom Kite 215 -1 T8. Morris Hatalsky 215 -1 T8. Bernhard Langer 215 -1

• Pate's 5-under-par 211 total was the highest winning 54-hole score on the Champions Tour since Tom Watson claimed last year's Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am with a 4-under 209 score. It was also the highest winning score at this event since Bob Charles won the 1990 GTE Kaanapali Classic with a 4-under 206 total for three rounds.

• The 18-shot differential between Fred Funk's winning score here last year (193/-23) and Pate's (211/-5) three-round score this year is the largest ever on the Champions Tour for a 54-hole event in consecutive years. The old mark was 14 shots at the 1997-1998 MasterCard Championship at Hualalai. In 1997, Hale Irwin's winning score was 209/-7 and the following year, Gil Morgan won with a three-round score of 195/-21.

• Pate's four-stroke come-from-behind victory matched the largest in event history. Don Bies (1989), George Archer (1993) and Hale Irwin (2000) all came from four strokes back to win.

• Pate earned a total of 240 Charles Schwab Cup points for his victory Sunday and is now in second place behind Fred Funk (300 points). Allen Doyle is third with 188 points through two official events. At the end of the official season, the player earning the most Charles Schwab Cup points will receive a $1 million annuity.

• With strong winds each day, this year's field averged 74.220 (+2.220) for the week, the highest stroke average in relation to par for a 54-hole Champions Tour event since last year's Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am (74.071/+3.071). The Sunday stroke average of 76.078 (+4.078) was the highest for a final round since the last day at the TPC Tampa Bay last year as well (75.176/+4.176).

• For the first time since last year's Senior British Open at Muirfield, no player recorded a round in the 60s. Just four players broke par and there were 11 rounds of 80 or more today. Just on the four par 5s on the Palmer Course alone Sunday, there were a cumulative 76 bogeys and seven double bogeys.

• Fred Funk's 81 Sunday snapped his run of 15 consecutive sub-par rounds on the Champions Tour dating back to last year.

• The par-4 10th hole played as the most difficult for the week (4.341), yielding just 13 birdies over three days. The par-5 18th hole played as the easiest (4.802), giving up three eagles and 83 birdies.

• Making only his second Champions Tour career start, Robert Thompson, an open qualifier this week from Huntsville, Tex., holed out of the back greenside bunker at the 18th for the only eagle of the day. Thompson's eagle vaulted him into a tie for fourth in the tournament and earned him a spot in the upcoming Allianz Championship.

• Both Fulton Allem and Wayne Grady recorded their best career finishes on the Champions Tour this week. Making just his third Champions Tour start, Allem's birdie at the last hole allowed him to tie for second at the Turtle Bay Championship, his best on TOUR since winning the NEC World Series of Golf. Grady's final-round 70 vaulted him up into a tie for four4th, his best performance among 11 Champions Tour career starts and best on TOUR since his triumph at the 1990 PGA Championship.

• David Ogrin tied for 52nd in his Champions Tour debut.

• After a week off, the Champions Tour moves to Boca Raton, Fla., for the Allianz Championship.