JELD-WEN Tradition: Final-round notebook

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SUNRIVER, Ore. -- Fred Funk claimed his first major championship in his sixth career appearance in a major on the Champions Tour. He wins his fourth event overall on the Champions Tour in his 23rd career start.

Mike Goodes' second-place finish was his best result ever on the Champions Tour. (Gibbons/Getty Images)

Inside the Numbers

Final Leaderboard

Player Score 1. Fred Funk 269 -19 2. Mike Goodes 272 -16 T3. Tom Watson 274 -14 T3. Jay Haas 274 -14 5. Scott Hoch 275 -13 6. Scott Simpson 276 -12 T7. D.A. Weibring 277 -11 T7. Fuzzy Zoeller 277 -11 T7. Tom Jenkins 277 -11 T7. Loren Roberts 277 -11 T7. Lonnie Nielsen 277 -11 T7. Gene Jones 277 -11 T7. Bernhard Langer 277 -11

• Fred Funk's four-round score of 19-under 269 equaled the third-lowest score in JELD-WEN Tradition history. Only Doug Tewell (2001/265/-23) and Gil Morgan (1997/266/-22) had lower 72-hole totals in event history. Tom Shaw also won this event with a 19-under 269 score in 1993.

• With Fred Funk's win at 52 years, two months and three days of age, 14 of the 20 JELD-WEN Traditions have now been won by players 53 of age or younger.

• Fred Funk, a winner at the season-opening MasterCard Championship at Hualalai, becomes the seventh player with a pair of victories this year, giving the Champions Tour the most multiple winners in a season since 2005 (7). The last time Funk won twice in a calendar year was 1995 when he claimed both the Ideon Classic and the Buick Challenge.

• Fred Funk becomes the first player since Jim Thorpe (2007 Charles Schwab Cup Championship) to win a Champions Tour event with four consecutive rounds in the 60s.

• Fred Funk becomes just the second player, and first since Gil Morgan in 1997, to win the JELD-WEN Tradition with four straight rounds in the 60s.

• In his 10th appearance on the Champions Tour this year, Fred Funk collected check for $392,000, his largest amount ever on the circuit, and increases his 2008 official earnings to $1,240,683 (fifth, the first time he's eclipsed seven figures in a single season on the circuit.

• Fred Funk has now entered the final round with a lead three times on the Champions Tour and won each time (2007 Turtle Bay Championship, 2006 AT&T Championship).

• Tom Watson's tie-for-third finish this week now gives him six top-10 performances in the JELD-WEN Tradition in eight appearances. Watson won the 2003 event at The Reserve Golf & Country Club near Portland and finished tied for second in this championship in 2000.

• Mike Goodes, who started the year as a non-exempt player, became the first player since Mike McCullough (2001), and fourth player overall in Tradition history, to post four straight rounds in the 60s and not win. His runner-up effort in Oregon this week was his highest finish ever in a Champions Tour event and his check for $231,000 was more than double his previous-best check in a Champions Tour event ($102,000/fourth in the 2008 Regions Charity Classic). Goodes vaulted from 42nd into 25th position in 2008 earnings with $547,179.

• Bernhard Langer's tie for seventh at this week's JELD-WEN Tradition makes him the only player on the Champions Tour to record a top-10 in the four major championships that have been played on the Champions Tour thus far. Langer was second at the Senior PGA Championship, tied for fourth at the Senior British Open at Royal Troon and tied for sixth at the U.S. Senior Open two weeks ago. The last major of the season on the Champions Tour is the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship in Baltimore, Oct. 6-12.

• This week, the Crosswater Club at Sunriver Resort played to an average of 7,428 yards making it the third-longest course in Champions Tour history. The longer venues were the 7,480-yard Bosque Real CC in Huixquilucan, Mexico, which hosted the 2004 MasterCard Classic, and the 7,478-yard Crosswater Club Course at Sunriver Resort in Sunriver, Ore., which hosted the 2007 JELD-WEN Tradition.

• The JELD-WEN Tradition scoring average was 71.149, the lowest for this event since 2003 (71.122). Last year's stroke average at Crosswater was 72.857.

• Fred Funk led all players with 26 birdies, one short of Isao Aoki's record number of birdies in 1997.

• Fred Funk's double bogey on the 16th hole Sunday made him the eighth player to survive a double bogey and still win. Jerry Pate (Turtle Bay Championship), Mark Wiebe (Cap Cana Championship), Tom Watson (Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am), Denis Watson (FedEx Kinko's Classic), Eduardo Romero (Dick's Sporting Goods Open), Jay Haas (Senior PGA Championship) and Bruce Vaughan (Senior British Open) are the others this year.

• Massy Kuramoto went all 72 holes this week without a three-putt green and has a current streak of 308 consecutive without a three-putt.

• Fred Funk earned 794 Charles Schwab Cup points for winning this year's JELD-WEN Tradition and vaults from seventh place into the third position with 1,779 points on the season. Jay Haas picked up 174 Schwab Cup points and jumped over Bernhard Langer back into the top spot. Through 21 of 29 events this year, Haas now has 2,145 points and Langer is second with 2,046 points. At the end of the official season, the player earning the most Schwab Cup points will earn a $1 million payout and the Charles Schwab Cup.