Final-round notebook: BMW Championship

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Tiger Woods shot a final-round 68 to win by eight strokes over Jim Furyk and Marc Leishman. It is the 71st win of his PGA TOUR career, which is third all-time behind Sam Snead (82) and Jack Nicklaus (73).

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• With the win, Woods regained the No. 1 spot in the FedExCup standings heading into the final event of the PGA TOUR Playoffs.

• Woods (8 strokes) recorded his largest margin of victory since he defeated Ryuji Imada by eight strokes at the 2008 Buick Invitational.

• Woods ties Walter Hagen with a tournament-record five wins at the BMW Championship (1997, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2009). It is the fifth TOUR event he has won at least five times.

• Woods won the BMW Championship for the fifth time in 11 professional starts to go with nine top-10 finishes.

• Woods has recorded five top-10 finishes and three victories in six career PGA TOUR Playoff starts.

• The third-round leader/co-leader has now gone on to win 22 of 39 stroke-play events on the PGA TOUR in 2009. Woods has now won 48 of 52 events when holding the third-round lead/co-lead.

• When Woods eagled No. 9 at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club on Saturday it marked just the 24th eagle at that hole since 1991. Woods also birdied No. 9 in 1998.

• Marc Leishman (No. 16 in the FedExCup standings) is the only PGA TOUR rookie to advance to THE TOUR Championship this season. Andres Romero was the only rookie to advance to THE TOUR Championship in 2008, while Brandt Snedeker was the only rookie to advance in 2007. Snedeker and Romero both went on to win Rookie of the Year honors in each respective season.

• Leishman (T2) recorded the best finish of his young TOUR career. Leishman's T5 at the Valero Texas Open earlier this year was his previous best. Leishman has 17 made cuts in 25 events on TOUR this season to go with three top-10 finishes and eight top-25 finishes.

• Dating to 1970, the third-round leader/co-leader at the BMW Championship has won 21 times in 40 tournaments, including the last two (Camilo Villegas in 2008).

• For two straight years the winner of the BMW Championship has gone on to win THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola (Woods in 2007 and Villegas in 2008). Woods can make it three straight years with a win in Atlanta in two weeks.

• Leishman (16) and Luke Donald (28) are the only players to play their way into THE TOUR Championship.

• The top 5 players in the FedExCup standings (Tiger Woods, Steve Stricker, Jim Furyk, Zach Johnson and Heath Slocum) control their own destiny at THE TOUR Championship -- if they win THE TOUR Championship they will win the FedExCup.

• Ian Poulter (32) and Charley Hoffman (37) were pushed out of the top 30 in the FedExCup standings.

• Last year, only two players played their way into the top 30 at the BMW Championship -- Dudley Hart and D.J. Trahan.

• John Senden finished No. 30 in the FedExCup standings to earn the final spot in THE TOUR Championship with 1,532.41 points. He edged out Ian Poulter (1,531.95) by .46 points.

• Steve Stricker, Phil Mickelson, Stewart Cink, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk and Hunter Mahan are the only players to reach Atlanta in all three years of the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup.

• Ten players have earned a trip to THE TOUR Championship for the first time, including Jason Dufner, Dustin Johnson, Senden, Nick Watney, Brian Gay, Y.E. Yang, Angel Cabrera, Kevin Na, Leishman and Steve Marino.

• Slocum began the PGA TOUR Playoffs in 124th place. That's the furthest back in the standings of anyone to reach Atlanta in the first three years of the PGA TOUR Playoffs. Camilo Villegas (52) was the lowest seeded player to qualify for THE TOUR Championship in 2007 and Dudley Hart (67) the lowest in 2008.

• Woods (68-67-62-68) and Leishman (67-69-68-69) are the only players to record all four rounds in the 60s this week.

• Padraig Harrington (No. 13 in final-round today) has recorded a double bogey or worse in 13 straight PGA TOUR events.

• All four 2009 Major Championship winners earned a trip to THE TOUR Championship. The FedExCup standings after the BMW Championship for the major winners: Angel Cabrera (24), Lucas Glover (20), Stewart Cink (26) and Y.E. Yang (21).

• Leishman is the only player in the field to record multiple bogey-free rounds. Below is the list of players to record a bogey-free round at the BMW Championship:

Thursday -- Marc Leishman (67), Padraig Harrington (68)
Friday -- Zach Johnson (65), Mark Wilson (66)
Saturday -- Davis Love III (67), Steve Marino (68)
Sunday -- Jim Furyk (66), Marc Leishman (69)

• Scoring Averages at the newly-renovated (by Rees Jones) par-71 Cog Hill Golf & Country Club: