One of the keys to Carl Pettersson’s victory this week was his ability to get up-and-down from the furrowed bunkers this week. He was seven for nine on the week (77.8%/4th) compared with his season average of 47.9% which had him tied for 107th on TOUR.

• The Driving Accuracy percentage of winner Carl Pettersson (83.9%), although tied for 10th best in the tournament, was the tops by a winner on TOUR in 2006. The next best this season was 80.4% by Phil Mickelson at the BellSouth Classic and Jeff Maggert at the FedExt St. Jude Classic.

• The third round was suspended for the day Saturday at 7:55 p.m. due to dangerous situation (lightning in the area). There were 24 players left on the course at the time of the suspension. The 24 players returned in position at 7 a.m. Sunday to complete round three. Round three ended at 7:49 a.m. The final round began at 8:20 a.m. in twosomes off of the No. 1 tee.

• The fourth round was stopped due to a dangerous situation in the area at 4:03 p.m and resumed at 4:35 p.m., a delay of 32 minutes.

• The TOUR experimented with furrowed bunkers this week at the Memorial Tournament. Entering the tournament the TOUR average Sand Save Percentage was 49.1%, while this week the field averaged 43.8%. The round averages for the week -- 36.03%, 49.76%, 41.1% and 40.2%.

• Carl Pettersson became the 18th player in 22 stroke-play events to hold/share a third-round lead and win in 2006. At this point in 2005, only 10 of the 20 tournaments had been won by third-round leaders.

• The victory by Carl Pettersson not only got him into the U.S. Open in two weeks at Winged Foot Golf Club it also moved him inside the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking which allows him into the British Open as well. The cutoff for finishing inside the top 50 in the world for the British Open is June 4, 2006. Along with Pettersson, Zach Johnson, who was 45th in the world coming into the week guaranteed a spot with his tie for second finish. Brandt Jobe’s tie for fourth finish should have gotten him in as well, as a top-4 would have moved him past World No. 44 Tom Lehman on the list.

• This was the third time in his career that Carl Pettersson has held a third -round lead. The other times were:
2005 Deutsche Bank Championship (shared with 4 others) -- finished tied for fourth
2005 Chrysler Championship (shared with Steve Lowery) -- won by one
2006 the Memorial Tournament (held two stroke lead) -- won by two

• Brett Wetterich picked up his fourth top-10 (tied for sixth-Shell Houston Open, tied for fourth-Zurich Classic of New Orleans, won-EDS Byron Nelson Championship) in his last six starts with his tie for second this week. Prior to the Shell Houston Open, he had just three career top-10s in 76 starts.

• 1993 champion Paul Azinger made a run on Sunday with a 5-under 67. The 67 allowed him to finish 10th and post his sixth top-10 finish in Dublin, Ohio in 19 starts. It was his first top-10 on TOUR since a tie for sixth at the 2004 Shell Houston Open.

• Phil Mickelson retained the PGA TOUR money lead with his tie for fourth finish at the Memorial Tournament. Mickelson earned $237,666.66 and moved to $3,475,659 on the season. The top-10 was his seventh of the season, matching him with Vijay Singh for most on TOUR in 2006.

• Trevor Immelman has three top-10s in his last three starts on TOUR with his tie for seventh finish on Sunday. Immelman finished second in back-to-back weeks at the Wachovia Championship and the EDS Byron Nelson Championship.

• The tie for second finishes by Zach Johnson and Brett Wetterich moved each of them inside the top 10 in the U.S. Ryder Cup Standings. They received 170 points each, moving Johnson to sixth place (756.477) and Wetterich to seventh (746.000). Vaughn Taylor’s tie for seventh finish jumped him two spots from No. 10 to No. 8 with 660.833 points.

• Jim Furyk recorded his sixth straight top-25 finish at the Memorial Tournament and eighth in the last nine years with his tie for 18th finish on Sunday.

• Justin Rose made the most of his reinstatement from disqualification during round two. Rose, who sat in a tie for 59th through two rounds, finished with rounds of 67-71 to tie for 14th and earn $100,625. The money moved Rose to 79th on the 2006 PGA TOUR money list with $531,975.

• Billy Mayfair and Jeff Sluman hit all 14 fairways on Sunday. Mayfair had also done so during round two and tied with Kirk Triplett for the tournament lead in Driving Accuracy at 91.1% (51 of 56).

• Sergio Garcia and Mark Brooks hit 17 of 18 (94.4%) greens on Sunday, the best efforts in a round by any player in the field this week. Adam Scott led the tournament with a GIR of 79.2% (57 of 72).

• Defending champion Bart Bryant finished in a tie for 18th.

• The scoring average of 73.003 was the highest at the tournament since 2003 when the average was 73.253.

 Scoring averages  Front 9  Back 9   Total   Cumulative
Round 1           35.821   37.000   72.821
Round 2           36.406   36.495   72.901    72.860
Round 3           37.230   36.419   73.649    73.068
Round 4           35.568   37.189   72.757    73.003    

• Bogey-free rounds for the week: First Round: Jerry Kelly, Tim Clark; Second round: Carl Pettersson, Adam Scott, Craig Parry and Tim Petrovic; Third Round: None; Fourth Round: Brandt Jobe

• Carl Pettersson ended up with the longest bogey-free streak of the tournament going 27 holes through parts of rounds one through three.