•Tiger Woods’ win this week makes the Buick Invitational the fifth tournament he has captured four times (Bay Hill Invitational, Masters Tournament, WGC-NEC Invitational, WGC-American Express Championship, Buick Invitational). In nine career appearances at the Buick Invitational, Woods has never finished outside of the top 10.

•Tiger Woods became the first four-time winner in Buick Invitational history (1999, 2003, 2005-06). The victory is the 47th of his career, and extends his TOUR-leading streak to 11 straight years with at least one victory.

•How close was Sunday’s final round? With six holes to play at 1:43 p.m., a total of eight players (Rollins, Olazabal, Parnevik, Glover, Atwal, Green, Mickelson, Woods) were tied for the lead at 9-under-par.

•Third-round co-leaders Sergio Garcia (75/T8) and Rod Pampling (76/T10) both struggled on Sunday. In the 51 years that the Buick Invitational has gone the full 72 holes, 25 players who held/shared the third-round lead have gone on to victory, with John Daly doing so last in 2004. Garcia is now two for four with the lead/co-lead heading into the final round, while Pampling is one for two.

•Tiger Woods' win marks the first time in 2006 a leader/co-leader heading into the last round has failed to pull off the win. Previous winners who held at least a share of the lead -- Stuart Appleby (Mercedes Championships), David Toms (Sony Open in Hawaii) and Chad Campbell (Bob Hope Chrysler Classic).

•The runner-up finish for Jose Maria Olazabal is the fourth of his career. He is now 0-2 in playoffs, having come up short previously at the 2005 BellSouth Classic. He now has 40 top-10 finishes in 180 starts.

•Making his third career start and second as a member, the runner-up finish for Nathan Green is the first of his career and his second straight top-5 (tie for fifth at the Sony Open in Hawaii). Green finished No. 18 on the Nationwide Tour money list last season and posted career-best runner-up finishes on that Tour each of the past two seasons (2005 Jacob’s Creek Open Championship and 2004 Henrico County Open).

•Jesper Parnevik has posted consecutive top-10 finishes (tie for second – Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, tie for 10th – Buick Invitational) for the first time since 2004 (tie for seventh at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and tie for fourth at the Buick Invitational).

•For the fifth consecutive year, the Buick Invitational failed to have a player record all four rounds in the 60s. Dating back to the 1997 tournament (10 tournaments), only six players have performed the feat, with two coming in 1999 (Billy Ray Brown and Bill Glasson) and four in 2001 (Frank Lickliter II, Mike Weir, Jay Don Blake and Shigeki Maruyama).

•Jonathan Kaye posted the round of the day with a 4-under 68. After failing to record a birdie in his first 13 holes, Kaye equaled the TOUR’s best birdie streak of the season with five in a row to conclude his round. The streak moved him to 9 under and a tie-for-fourth finish – his 30th career top-10 showing.

•Three of the 24 rookies who teed it up this week finished inside the top 25, including Nathan Green (P2), Henrik Bjornstad (T10) and Charley Hoffman (T16) – each career-best finishes.

•TOUR rookie Robert Garrigus made the biggest move of the day, firing a 3-under 69 to jump 33 spots from tie for 61st to tie for 28th.

•Phil Mickelson failed in his attempt to win the Buick Invitational for the fourth time. His tie-for-eighth finish is his eighth top-10 finish at the tournament, bringing his career total to 115 top-10 finishes.

•Dating back to his first full year on the PGA TOUR in 1997, Tiger Woods has never finished outside of the top 10 in his first start of the season. Included in that string are four victories – 1997 and 1999 Mercedes Championships and the 2003 and 2006 Buick Invitational. His highest finish was a tie for 10th at the 2001 Mercedes Championships.

•Lucas Glover, the 2005 FUNAI Classic at WALT DISNEY WORLD Resort winner, posted his third top-10 in four starts in 2006. His three top-10s this season – tie for sixth at Mercedes Championships, tie for 10th at Bob Hope Chrysler Classic and tie for fourth at the Buick Invitational.

•Of the 82 players in the field on Sunday, only 22 managed to break par.

Scoring Averages for each course: 		
Course		Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Cumulative
North (par 72)	69.756	69.154	---	---	69.455
South (par 72)	73.910	74.286	73.171	73.439	73.690                    

Key Cumulative Statistical Leaders this week:
Driving Distance      J.B. Holmes  316.4 yards
Driving Accuracy      Tim Clark    71.4% (40 of 56)
Greens in Regulation  Tim Clark    80.6% (58 of 72)
Putts Per Round	      Nathan Green/Hank Kuehne/John Rollins 27.75        

•The South Course, host course of the 2008 U.S. Open Championship, yielded just one bogey-free round this week - Carlos Franco’s 2-under 70 in the first round. The North Course yielded 20 bogey-free rounds during the first two rounds.

•Woods’ victory is worth 100 points in the West Coast Swing presented by Allianz. Chad Campbell currently leads the competition with 165 points. The winner of the competition, which will end the last week of February at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship and the Chrysler Classic of Tucson, will receive $500,000. The runner-up earns $300,000 and the third-place finisher gets $200,000.