Notes: Price up to second in Charles Schwab Cup race

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The Champions Tour is idle for two weeks before heading to Fallen Oak in Biloxi, Miss., for the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic on March 28-April 3. The purse is $1.6 million with $240,000 and 240 Charles Schwab Cup points going to the winner. Last year, David Eger fired a final-round 69 to edge Tommy Armour III by one stroke at the inaugural event.

LAST WEEK

• Nick Price captured the Toshiba Classic, winning wire-to-wire by a stroke from Mark Wiebe for his fourth Champions Tour victory.

• Price matched the lowest round in Champions Tour history, eagling two of the final four holes in the opening round of the Toshiba Classic for a career-best 11-under-par 60. Isao Aoki set the mark in 1997 at the Emerald Coast Classic and it was later matched by five others players before Price last week.

• Price earned $255,000 with the win and also claimed 255 points in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup race. He moved into second place in that race with 361 points. Tom Lehman continues to lead with 454 points. John Cook remains in third place with 305 points.

• Lee Trevino bettered his age for the first time in his career when he fired a 1-under-par 70 in the opening round of the Toshiba Classic. The 71-year-old Trevino also matched his age in the final round. The last time he had matched his age was in 2006 when he shot a second-round 66 at the AT&T Championship in San Antonio. Gil Morgan also matched his age for the first time in his career when he fired a 7-under-par 64 in Round 2.

• Ian Baker-Finch recruited caddie Pete Bender for his Champions Tour debut at last week's Toshiba Classic and finished T78. Bender was on the bag for the Australian when he won the 1991 British Open at Royal Birkdale.

• Joe Ozaki played in the final pairing on the final day at the Toshiba Classic for the first time in his Champions Tour career, a span of 101 career starts. Ozaki finished T3.

• Peter Senior, who qualified via the Australasian Tour Order of Merit, was the oldest player in the field at the WGC-Cadillac Championship. He finished tied for 64th.

• No Champions Tour professionals teed it up at the Puerto Rico Open last week, however, Steve Pate, who turns 50 on May 26, finished T37. Brad Faxon and John Huston, both of whom will join the Champions Tour later this year, missed the cut.

• The inaugural ISPS Handa Senior World Championship at Mission Hills in China was won by two-time major champion Sandy Lyle. It was his first victory on the European Senior Tour and his first win anywhere since the 1992 Volvo Masters.

COMING UP

• The Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic media day is scheduled to take place at Fallen Oak on Wednesday, March 16. The defending champion, David Eger, will follow a lunchtime Q&A session with a clinic on the practice area.

• David Eger finished T12 at the Regions Charity Classic in his very next start following his win at the 2010 Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic. That result is his best finish in 11 starts since his victory.

• Robert Thompson earned a spot in the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic with his T4 finish at the Toshiba Classic. Thompson, who finished 7th at last fall's Champions Tour National Qualifying Tournament, is not fully exempt this year and his top-10 finish captured a spot in the event, which begins April 1 at Fallen Oak in Saucier, Miss.

NUMBERS

53 -- The number of players who finished with sub-par rounds on both Friday and Saturday at the Toshiba Classic. 50 players broke par on the final day.

19 -- The number of consecutive rounds of par/better for Bernhard Langer before he shot 73 (+2) on Saturday at the Toshiba Classic. Tom Pernice Jr. and Jeff Sluman extended their streaks in that category to 21 dating to last year.

DID YOU KNOW?

• Seven players in the field at last week's Toshiba Classic had the letter 'z' in their last name (Joe Ozaki, Frankie Minoza, Bruce Lietzke, Larry Mize, Tom Purtzer, Ted Schulz, Fuzzy Zoeller).

ON THIS DATE

3/15/87-- Don Pooley sinks a 4-iron on No. 17 in the final round of the Hertz Bay Hill Classic for an ace and $1 million with half going to the Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital and Pooley earning the other $500,000. He would receive $2,083.33 in monthly installments for the next 20 years.

3/17/85 -- Australian Peter Thomson wins The Vintage Invitational in Indian Wells, Calif., by one stroke over Billy Casper and Arnold Palmer. That would be the first of a record nine titles during the year for Thomson. It has since been matched by Hale Irwin in 1997.

3/19/04 -- Tom Purtzer ties the Champions Tour record when he shoots an 11-under-par 60 to open play at the Toshiba Senior Classic.

QUOTES TO NOTE

"It's a very, very difficult period in managing your time." -- Nick Price comments on being the No. 1 ranked player in the world. Price was at the top of the OWGR for a total of 44 weeks from August 1994 to June 1995.

"That was probably the hardest thing because once you shoot a number like that (60), you've got everything to lose and hardly anything to gain." -- Nick Price talks about having a five-stroke lead after the first round and winning by one at the Toshiba Classic.

"The reason the good players are really good is that they let those (negative) thoughts go, and they focus on what they're doing and their routine is sharp. I know I don't have a sharp routine because I haven't played for 15 years."-- Ian Baker-Finch discusses the state of his game before making his Champions Tour debut at the Toshiba Classic.

"I'd be playing the other nine right now if it wasn't for my driver."-- Ian Baker-Finch, who shot 74-79-74 in his Champions Tour debut at the Toshiba Classic, refers to starting the final round at No. 10.

"Some still think they need to prove something out there (on the PGA TOUR). I have been there, done that, moving on. I am very happy with this Tour (the Champions Tour)."-- Bernhard Langer responds to a question regarding playing both Tours.

"He is my teacher so I have to keep him close. He said 'you need to get your hands up and quit taking so much time on a couple of these putts'."-- Mark Wiebe talks about the advice his son Gunner gave him after the opening round of the Toshiba Classic, helping him to a runner-up finish. Gunner plays golf at the University of San Diego.

"You wonder after about four or five years whether you'll ever win again let alone nearly 20, so this is very special." -- Sandy Lyle, after winning on the European Senior Tour last week.