Day 2 notebook: Wendy's Champions Skins Game

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DOUBLE-DIGITS: With Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson collecting 10 skins in this year's competition, three of the last five events using the team, alternate-shot format have been won with double-digit skins totals. Last year, Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller earned 13 total skins, the most ever since the format was changed in 2006. Raymond Floyd and Dana Quigley also collected 10 skins when they won the 2006 event.

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THE TOTALS: Jack Nicklaus owns 10 Wendy's Champions Skins Game records, including most career skins (110), most career money ($2,605,000). His 73 skins on the front nine are more than every other competitor's total skins. Raymond Floyd is the next closest with a total of 69 skins. Nicklaus is second to Floyd (47 skins) for most back-nine skins with 41. Tom Watson now has 54 total skins in this event and earnings of $1,290,000.

THE ROOKIES: Fred Couples and Nick Price earned three skins and $190,000, the most for a duo playing in this event for the first time since the team alternate-shot format was adopted in 2006.

WHERE ARE THE EAGLES?: A combined total of 19 birdies were made by the four teams in this year's Wendy's Champions Skins Game competition, but there were no eagles recorded. In the 23-year history of this event, there have only been five eagles made and Jack Nicklaus has made four of them. Tom Watson also recorded an eagle in 2004.

OVERTIME: This year's playoff marked the 19th time in 23 events that extra holes were needed to decide the title. The extra hole today was the 41st playoff hole in event history.