Accenture Match Play Championship: Final-Day Notebook

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MARANA, Ariz. -- Tiger Woods improves his record to 31-6 in his ninth year playing this event. Woods is 20-4 against the International players and 11-2 against his fellow Americans. With his victory on Sunday, Tiger Woods has won 23 of his last 26 matches.

Tiger Woods holding a WGC trophy has become one of the most familiar sights in golf. (Badz/PGA TOUR/WireImage)

Accenture Match Play Championship

Match Winning Streaks

Player Wins Years Tiger Woods 13 2003-05 Geoff Ogilvy 11 2006-07 Henrik Stenson 10 2007-08 David Toms 8 2005-06 Kevin Sutherland 8 2002-03

• Tiger's 8-and-7 victory is the most lopsided championship victory in the history of the Accenture Match Play Championships. Previouslym the biggest victory was in 2005, when David Toms defeated Chris DiMarco, 6 and 5. In 2000, Darren Clarke topped Tiger Woods, 4 and 3

• Tiger Woods improves his championship match record to 3-1. He lost to Darren Clarke, 4 and 3, in 2000, and has defeated David Toms, 2 and 1, in 2003, defeated Davis Love III, 3 and 2, in 2004, and beat Stewart Cink, 8 and 7, in 2008.

• The opening hole of Tiger Woods' quarterfinals match against K.J. Choi is the last time that Woods trailed in a match. Woods won the second hole of that match and never trailed again versus Choi, Stenson or Cink.

• Stewart Cink's runner-up finish at the Accenture Match Play Championship is his best career finish at this event and his highest finish since losing in a playoff at the 2006 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational. It is Cink's second top-3 finish of the year. Cink finished tied for third at the Buick Invitational.

• With the $800,000 second-place check, Cink has now earned $4,316,924 at World Golf Championships events (includes $86,333 won at the World Golf Championships-World Cup). The second-place finish also moves Cink into 10th in all-time career money earned on the PGA TOUR with more than $22 million in his career.

• Henrik Stenson's third-place finish moves him into the top spot on the European Tour's Order of Merit. Sunday's finish marks Stenson's third top-3 finish in World Golf Championships events. He won the 2007 Accenture Match Play Championship and tied for third in the 2005 CA Championship.

• With his fourth-place finish, Justin Leonard now has four finishes inside the top-10 in 2008, one less than all of 2007. In 2006 Leonard managed two top-10 finishes.

• Last year on this week, Justin Leonard was No. 194th in the Official World Golf Ranking. Currently he is 52nd on the OWGR. In the last 12 months he has won the 2007 Valero Texas Open, finished second twice -- 2008 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic and 2007 Buick Open and finished in the top-10 nine times.

• It is the ninth time in the 10-year history of the Accenture Match Play Championship that there has been an American in the championship match. The only other countries represented in the final match: Sweden (Henrik Stenson, 2007 and Pierre Fulke, 2001), Northern Ireland (Darren Clarke, 2000) and Australia (Geoff Ogilvy, 2006 and 2007).

• Tiger Woods earns his 63rd career PGA TOUR victory at the age of 32 years, 1 month and 25 days in his 232nd (218th professional) career start on TOUR. The 63rd career victory is fourth all-time for PGA TOUR victories, Ben Hogan stands in third with 64 victories.

• Woods earned 4,725 FedExCup points to move to the top of the standings for the first time in 2008. He has collected 9,225 total points, 894 points ahead of Phil Mickelson.

The standard bearer's sign told the tale Sunday. (Halleran/WireImage)

• Woods wins the Accenture Match Play Championship for the third time. He's now won 15 World Golf Championships events out of 26 starts (missed the 2001 edition of the Accenture Match Play Championship).

• This is his fourth consecutive victory on the PGA TOUR dating back to the 2007 BMW Championship. Dating back to the 2007 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational, has won six of last seven starts.

• Out of 117 holes he played this week, Woods made 47 birdies and two eagles.

• Woods recorded his 15th official World Golf Championships victory in 26 starts and has now earned $19,882,000 in official money at World Golf Championships events. He also has 24 top-10 finishes in the 26 starts.

• He's won the last three World Golf Championships events and has possession of all three World Golf Championships trophies. His 8-and-7 victory over Stewart Cink in the 36 hole championship match becomes the largest margin of victory in a championship match

• Woods has won 15 World Golf Championship touranaments. They are the Bridgestone Invitational in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2007; the Accenture Match Play Championship in 2003, 2004 and 2008; and the CA Championship in 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Woods also won the 2000 World Cup, an unofficial money WGC event, with David Duval in 2000.

• With his first TOUR victory in Arizona, Woods has now won in 15 different states. He also becomes first two-time winner of the season and collects at least two wins in a season for the 11th time in his 13-year PGA TOUR career.

• Woods now has won 10 different PGA TOUR events three or more times.

• Woods now has has two top-10 finishes for the season. He has 146 career top-10s in 218 professional starts and has finished in the top-25 192 times

• Woods surpasses the $78 million mark in career PGA TOUR Official Money with $78,865,376. And with a paycheck of $1,350,000 on Sundaym he improves his season earnings to $2,286,000.