Mitsubishi Electric Champ: Final-round notebook

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KAUPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii -- With his win, 2008 Champions Tour Player of the Year Bernhard Langer claimed his fifth victory in his 26th start on the Champions Tour and earned a check for $315,000. Langer has now earned $2,749,673 on the Champions Tour, an average of $105,756 per start. The victory was also his 17th top-10 finish in his brief Champions Tour career.

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Andy Bean roared into second place with a final-round 66.

Inside the Numbers

Final Leaderboard

Player Score 1. Bernhard Langer 198 -18 2. Andy Bean 199 -17 3. Jay Haas 201 -15 T4. Mark McNulty 202 -14 T4. Jeff Sluman 202 -14 T6. Gil Morgan 203 -13 T6. John Cook 203 -13 T8. Loren Roberts 204 -12 T8. Brad Bryant 204 -12 10. Mark James 205 -11

• Bernhard Langer also moved atop the year's first Charles Schwab Cup list with 315 points. Runner-up Andy Bean is now second with 196 points, followed by 2008 Charles Schwab Cup winner Jay Haas (132) and Jeff Sluman and Mark McNulty (105 points each). A $1 million annuity awaits the winner at the end of the season with the next four places also earning annuities.

• For the second consecutive day, none of the players in the 34-man field made a birdie at No. 5 and the field averaged 3.853 on the hole. There were just four birdies on No. 5 in the opening round -- by Brad Bryant, Lonnie Nielsen, Gary Player and Jeff Sluman. The final tally on the hole in Sunday's final round was 16 pars, 10 bogeys, six doubles, one triple and one quadruple. The hole was the most difficult for the event with a scoring average of 3.480 (+.480). No. 5 was the easiest at 4.275 (-.725).

• Gil Morgan turned in a nice performance in his first start in 2009. The 62-year-old Morgan, the 1998 winner of this tournament, carded rounds of 68-69-66 to finish tied for sixth. It was his seventh top-10 finish in the event, tying him with four others players for the most in tournament history.

• Player bettered his age for the third consecutive day when he shot a second straight 1-under-par 71 (he shot a 2-under-par 70 on Friday). It marked the first time in the 73-year-old Player's career that he bettered his age all three rounds. Player has now bettered his age 12 times in his career and matched it 12 times.

• Player is not the first player to better his age three times in an event. Jerry Barber did it when he was playing the Champions Tour, including in 1994 when he shot rounds of 74-75-69 at age 78 at the Kroger Senior Classic.

• Player had the fewest putts by any of the 34 entrants in the tournament with 76 in the three rounds. Player needed just 24 in the first and third rounds.

• In his 12 starts at the Hualalai Golf Course, 2006 winner Loren Roberts has made 74 birdies and four eagles in 216 holes and is a combined 68 under par. Roberts set a new Champions Tour standard in 2006, when he finished with rounds of 63-67-61 for a total of 25-under-par 191, which set the Champions Tour record in relation to par.

• He also set an all-time record with 26 birdies in a three-round tournament that year. During this run, Roberts has birdied No. 4 in every round all four years as well as making an eagle in today's final round.

• Bean's second consecutive 6-under-par 66 gave him seven consecutive rounds in the 60s dating back to last year. Bean posted four straight rounds in the 60s in winning the Charles Schwab Cup Championship and fired rounds of 67-66-66 on his way to his second-place finish. His 66 on Sunday gave him 14 straight rounds of par or better.

• Since having his clubs stolen at last year's Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn, Bean has certainly shown no dropoff with his new clubs. Since that event, Bean has finished tied for third, tied for 11th, tied for sixth, tied for 20th, first and second. He has also recorded 14 straight rounds of par or better.

• Jeff Sluman moved into sole possession of third place on the Champions Tour list for consecutive rounds of par/better when he who shot a 2-under-par 70. Sluman increased his string to 28 on Sunday. Roberts holds the all-time Champions Tour record with 37 straight during the 2006-2007 season. Larry Nelson is second with 32 (2000).

• Tricky winds made things more difficult on Sunday and the field scoring average jumped from 68.876 on Saturday to 71.059. After 21 players posted rounds in the 60s in the first two rounds, only eight players shot in the 60s on Sunday.

• Hale Irwin's bid for his first top-10 finish since the conclusion of the 2007 season fell just short when he finished with a 2-over-par 74 on Sunday, which left him tied for 11th.