By Laury Livsey There were only 14 under-par rounds Sunday compared to 32 in the first round, 62 in the second and 33 in the third. Joey Sindelar had the low round Sunday, carding a 3-under 69. • Jim Furyk became the third major championship winner to add the Wachovia Championship title to his resume. Furyk, the winner of the 2003 U.S. Open, joins Vijay Singh (Masters, PGA Championship) and David Toms (PGA Championship) as Wachovia Championship winners who have also won major championships. • Jim Furyk improved his record in PGA TOUR playoffs to 2-6 with his win Sunday. His other playoff win came at the 1996 United Airlines Hawaiian Open (now known as the Sony Open in Hawaii) when he birdied the third playoff hole to defeat Brad Faxon. • Although Jim Furyk had a chance by opening this year’s tournament with rounds of 68-69-68, no player has had four rounds in the 60s in the history of the Wachovia Championship. Furyk shot a final-round 71 but still won in a playoff. • The playoff between Jim Furyk and Trevor Immelman was the third consecutive extra session at the Wachovia Championship. The last time a PGA TOUR event had three consecutive playoffs was the Barclays Classic from 1998 to 2000. In 1998, J.P. Hayes defeated Furyk, in 1999 Duffy Waldorf defeated Dennis Paulson and in 2000 Paulson came back to defeat David Duval. Of current tournaments, the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic had five consecutive playoffs, from 1982 to 1986. • Current PGA TOUR tournaments with at least three consecutive playoffs:
5 years -- Bob Hope Chrysler Classic (1982-86) • This week the par-5 seventh hole yielded more eagles than any other hole. The 22 eagles also surpassed the all-time tournament high of 20 eagles on that hole in 2004. • There were 49 eagles this week, the most in any Wachovia Championship since the tournament’s inception in 2003. The previous record was 44 in 2004. Lucas Glover, Bill Haas, Charley Hoffman, Shaun Micheel, Adam Scott and Kevin Sutherland all had two eagles this week. • By tying for fourth this week, Bill Haas picked up his second top-10 of his PGA TOUR career. His first came at the 2004 Deutsche Bank Championship near Boston, where he tied for ninth. After sharing the first-round lead with an opening 68, Haas finished with rounds of 72-71-70. His payday of $277,200 is the largest of his career and takes his 2006 earnings to $482,081. • Bill Haas’ tie for fourth at the Wachovia Championship earned him a spot in next week’s EDS Byron Nelson Championship. He was not otherwise exempt into the Irving, Texas, tournament. • Trevor Immelman’s only other appearance at the Wachovia Championship came in 2003 when he missed the cut after rounds of 73-74. That year Immelman gained entrance into the event via a sponsor’s exemption. • With earnings of $1,134,000, Jim Furyk became the Wachovia Championship all-time money leader, increasing his total to $1,662,000. Furyk passed Vijay Singh, who has amassed $1,651,503. Joey Sindelar is third, with $1,240,434. • In his last five starts, Vaughn Taylor has either finished inside the top 10 or been cut. Taylor tied for eighth at THE PLAYERS Championship, missed the cut at the Masters Tournament, tied for third at the Verizon Heritage, missed the cut at the Shell Houston Open and tied for sixth this week at the Wachovia Championship. • Two players surpassed the $1-million mark in PGA TOUR season earnings with their performances this week. Vaughn Taylor won $203,962 and has made $1,060,474 in 2006. Adam Scott picked up $428,400 at the Wachovia Championship and has made $1,196,773. There are 28 players with at least $1 million in earnings on the 2006 money list. • With his tie for 10th this week, Retief Goosen had his 12th top-10 finish since the beginning of the 2005 season. Goosen has enjoyed four top 10s this season in eight starts. His lone win during that span is his 2005 victory at The INTERNATIONAL. • David Duval finished under par for the third time this season (Sony Open in Hawaii, 2-under; Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, 9-under). It was his fifth under-par tournament in Duval’s last 39 starts. • Vijay Singh’s par-or-better streak at the Wachovia Championship ended at 14 consecutive rounds. Singh fired a 9-over 81, his first over-par score at Quail Hollow Club since the first round of the 2003 tournament. The 81 is his worst score in 16 rounds at the tournament. • Lucas Glover’s tie-for-fourth finish was his sixth top-10 of the season, tying him for second on the PGA TOUR list with Phil Mickelson. They are both one behind leader Vijay Singh. • A week ago, Ken Duke won $112,500 for winning the Nationwide Tour’s BMW Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs. This week, Duke, a Monday qualifier, won $100,800 for his tie for 14th. He’s combined to win $213,300 over the last two weeks. |
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