Final-round notebook: Wyndham Championship
By Mark Stevens, PGA TOUR Staff
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• Arjun Atwal shot a 20-under 260 to become the first native of India to win on the PGA TOUR. Atwal was the first native of India to join the PGA TOUR (2004).
• Scott Piercy (T8) is the only player to move into the top 125 in the final FedExCup standings this week at the Wyndham Championship. Piercy moved from 140th in the FedExCup standings entering the week to claim the 125th and final spot. Chris Stroud dropped out of the top 125 after missing the cut.
• Last year, five players made it from outside the top 125 in and into The Barclays due to their performance at the Wyndham Championship. There were also five players in 2008 that played their way into The Barclays at the Wyndham Championship and three in 2007.
• Atwal has eight top-10 finishes and 19 top-25 finishes in 120 PGA TOUR starts. He has 51 starts on the Nationwide Tour. Atwal won the 2008 Chattanooga Classic on the Nationwide Tour.
• Atwal led the field in total putts with 109. He was T3 in Fairways Hit (45 of 56/80.4%).
• With Atwal's win, international players have now won 13 of the last 19 events on TOUR. It is the 19th win by an international player on TOUR this year in 37 events.
• Atwal becomes the first Monday Qualifier to win on TOUR since Fred Wadsworth at the 1986 Southern Open.
• Atwal is the 15th of 36 third-round leaders/co-leaders to go onto victory this season on TOUR. He is the eighth first-round leader/co-leader to go on to victory this season.
• Atwal converts his first career 54-hole TOUR lead into victory.
• Atwal is the 15th first-time winner in the 71-year history of the Wyndham Championship. Atwal is the 14th first-time winner on TOUR this season.
• Atwal is only the fourth first-round leader to win the Wyndham Championship since 1976.
• Atwal held sole possession of the first-round lead and third-round leads and was the second-round co-leader. Prior to this week, Atwal had only held the lead at any round's end three times. Of those, his best finish was a T5 at the 2005 Zurich Classic of New Orleans after holding a share of the first round lead.
• Prior to Sunday, Arjun Atwal's best TOUR finish was a P2 at the 2005 BellSouth Classic where he lost in a five-man playoff to Phil Mickelson.
• Atwal's 72-hole total of 260 is one shy of Carl Pettersson's tournament record 259.
• Atwal began the 2010 PGA TOUR season playing on a Minor Medical Exemption out of the Qualifying Tournament/Nationwide Tour category. He had eight events in which he had to earn $586,007 to gain status for the remainder of the season. His eighth start was the RBC Canadian Open, where he failed to earn the needed balance. Therefore, he is not eligible to receive FedExCup points this week.
• Atwal (1st) and Jeev Milkha Singh (T18) become the first two players from India to ever finish within the top-20 of any tournament on the PGA TOUR.
Notes about golfers from India on the PGA TOUR:
• Jyoti Randhawa finished T17 at the 2006 WGC-American Express Championship in England. He played 12 events on TOUR and made six cuts.
• Randhawa and Arjun Atwal finished T9 at the 2005 WGC-Algarve World Cup in Portugal. It was an unofficial team event.
• Randhawa finished T27 in the 2004 British Open.
• Singh has four top-10 finishes and eight top-25 finishes in 52 starts on the PGA TOUR. Singh's best finish on TOUR is fourth at the 2009 WGC-CA Championship.
• Singh's T9 at the 2009 PGA Championship is the best finish by any golfer from India in Major Championship history.
More notes
• David Toms recorded his first top-10 finish of the season. Toms has had at least one top-10 every season since 1996.
• John Mallinger recorded his first top-10 of the season. He has had at least four top-10s each of the previous three seasons.
• Lucas Glover has finished in the top-25 in each of the last six years at the Wyndham Championship. Glover has shot par-or-better in 25 of 28 rounds at the Wyndham Championship.
• Justin Leonard records his first top-10 of the season. Leonard has had at least two top-10s every year on TOUR since 1994.
• All 78 players that made the cut finished the Wyndham Championship par-or-better. That has happened four other times in the last three years (2010 Greenbrier Classic, 2009 Buick Open, 2008 Viking Classic, 2008 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open).
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