Round 4 Notebook: Verizon Heritage

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• Jim Furyk (69) and Brian Davis (68) finished regulation at 13-under 271, with Furyk parring the first extra hole to win the 2010 Verizon Heritage. The victory is the 15th of Furyk's career and comes in his 419th PGA TOUR start.

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• The playoff is the 10th at the Verizon Heritage, and the first since Stewart Cink outlasted Ted Purdy in 2004. It is just the second of the season on TOUR (Shell Houston Open, won by Anthony Kim).

• Playing out of the greenside hazard, Davis called a two-stroke penalty on himself on the only playoff hole after touching a loose impediment during his backswing (Rule 13-4).

• Jim Furyk is now 3-7 in playoffs, while Brian Davis falls to 0-1.

• The win is worth 500 points and moves Furyk to No. 2 in the FedExCup points standings, 175 points behind leader Ernie Els. Brian Davis moves to No. 37 in the standings.

• The win is the second of the season for Furyk (Transitions Championship), giving him multiple wins in a season for the third time (2-2003, 2-2006) in his 17-year PGA TOUR career.

• Furyk has made 12 starts at the Verizon Heritage, with nine made cuts and top-15 finishes in six of his last eight starts (T15-2002, T10-2003, T2-2005, 2-2006, 4-2008, 1-2010).

• Davis equaled his career-best PGA TOUR result and has now posted runner-up finishes in each of the last four years: 2007 St. Jude Championship, 2008 Legends Reno-Tahoe Open, 2009 HP Byron Nelson Championship and the 2010 Verizon Heritage.

• Luke Donald has finished inside the top-3 in his last two starts at the Heritage (T2-2009, T3-2010).

• Two-time Verizon Heritage winner Boo Weekley finished T12 this week for his fourth top-15 finish in as many starts at the event (1-2007, 1-2008, T13-2009, T12-2010). Sunday's 2-over 73 was his worst score in 16 rounds at Harbour Town and just his second over-par effort (2009, R2, 72).

• Defending champion Brian Gay finished T32. The tournament has not had a defending champion miss the cut since 1992 champion Davis Love III did so the following year. There have been three repeat winners at the Verizon Heritage: Payne Stewart (1989-90), Davis Love III (1991-92) and Boo Weekley (2007-08).

• The round of the day was 4-under 67, turned in by Stuart Appleby (T8), Rickie Fowler (T8), Rory Sabbatini (T14) and Jason Day (T22).

• Ricky Barnes followed up a T10 at last week's Masters Tournament with a T5 on Sunday, making him the only player to post top-10 finishes in both events.

• All six past champions of the Verizon Heritage competing this week made the cut: Boo Weekley (T12), Stewart Cink (T15), Aaron Baddeley (T22), Brian Gay (T32), Glen Day (T53) and Davis Love III (71).

• With 99 putts, Bryce Molder (T22) was the only player with fewer than 100 putts this week. The all-time TOUR record is held by David Frost, with 92 putts at the 2005 Verizon Heritage. The low this year was posted by Steve Wheatcroft (98, Puerto Rico Open).

• After missing the cut in his inaugural Verizon Heritage appearance in 2001, 2006 champion Aaron Baddeley has reeled off five consecutive top-25 finishes at the tournament (1-2006, T10-2007, T2-2008, T21-2009, T22-2010).

• Davis Love III finished 71stin his bid this week for a sixth Verizon Heritage title. Love has now made 25 consecutive starts (with 13 top-25 finishes) at the annual Hilton Head event. In addition to his wins in 1987, 1991, 1992, 1998 and 2003, he has six additional top-10 finishes for a tournament-record 11 such finishes.

• Since the Verizon Heritage moved into its slot after the Masters in 1983, just five players have won the event without having competed in the Masters the week before: Brian Gay (2009), Boo Weekley (2007), Aaron Baddeley (2006), Bob Tway (1995) and Davis Love III (1987).

• A player has posted four rounds in the 60s 26 times throughout the history of the Verizon Heritage, with Furyk and Davis the only players performing the feat this week.

• Stuart Appleby finished T8 for his first top-10 since a T8 at the 2009 Transitions Championship.

• Byeong-Hun An, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion, finished T59 and became the eighth amateur to make the cut at the Verizon Heritage.

• Scoring Averages at the par-71 Harbour Town Golf Links:

• Bogey-free rounds

R1 -- T. Immelman, B. Molder, N. O'Hern and S. Appleby
R2 -- B. Molder, B. Baird, C. Villegas, S. Levin, S. Ames, P. Casey, B. Adams
R3 -- J. Furyk, B. Davis, S. Ames, B. Baird, L. Donald, B. Weekley, T. Gillis, O. Uresti, C. Tidland
R4 -- None

• Stat leaders for the week:

• Rickie Fowler birdied the par-4 18th hole on Sunday en route to a 4-under 67 to take the lead in the season-long Kodak Challenge, a first-of-its-kind competition created to celebrate beautiful holes and memorable moments in golf. Players must play at least 18 of the 30 Kodak Challenge holes throughout the year to qualify, with the best score relative to par winning the $1 million first-place prize. This week's hole was the picturesque, par-4, 452-yard finishing hole at Harbour Town. At 8-under, Fowler currently leads Matt Kuchar, Marc Leishman and Kevin Na by one stroke. Kevin Streelman won the inaugural competition in 2009.

• The par-3 14th hole was the toughest this week with a 3.282 stroke average. The par-5 second hole was the easiest at 4.421.

• Every hole on the back nine at Harbour Town played over par on Sunday, including the par-5 15th hole (5.028).

• The third-round leader/co-leader has now won nine of 16 (56.25%) stroke-play events so far this season.