In anticipation of inclement weather on Sunday afternoon, final-round tee times will run from 7:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. with players grouped in threesomes off of both the Nos. 1 and 10 tees. Play is scheduled to finish at approximately 2:30 p.m. • This is the first time in his career that J.J. Henry has held a 54-hole lead in a PGA TOUR event. Henry, who is making his 177th career PGA TOUR start this week, has never won on the TOUR. He won the 2000 Nationwide Knoxville Open. In Knoxville, he had a three-stroke lead through 54-holes and fired a closing 1-over 73 to win by one stroke. • J.J. Henry may have never lead a TOUR event after 54-holes, but he has played in the final pairing on Sunday one other time in his career. Henry was one-stroke back of J.B. Holmes through 54-holes at the 2006 FBR Open. He played with Holmes and Ryan Palmer in the final grouping on Sunday. He finished tied for second with Camilo Villegas, Steve Lowery, Ryan Palmer and Scott Verplank. • The winner of the Buick Championship will collect $792,000 and the second place finisher will collect $475,200. To date, J.J. Henry’s largest payday on the PGA TOUR is $378,000, when he finished second at the 2001 Kemper Insurance Open. Herny, who has earned $824,683 in 2006 and ranks 51st on the TOUR money list, is looking to surpass the $1 million mark for a season for the second time in his career. He earned over $1 million in his rookie season in 2001.
• J.J. Henry has recorded 13 rounds in the 60s out of 25 competitive
rounds at the Buick Championship. Saturday’s round of 7-under 63 is a
career-best for him at the TPC River Highlands. He posted a 4-under 66
in the first round in 2003. His two best rounds on the PGA TOUR have
come on Tournament Player Courses. Below is a list of Henry’s career
best TOUR rounds:
• J.J. Henry is making his 177th career professional start on the PGA
TOUR this week in Cromwell, CT. He has never won on the TOUR, but in his
first 176 starts he has collected 10 top-5 finishes, including three
runner-up finishes. He also has 17 top-10 career finishes. Below is a
list of his runner-up finishes: • J.J. Henry made his first start in a PGA TOUR event at the 1998 Buick Championship, shortly after graduating from TCU. When he played in 1998 he made the decision to play as an amateur because he wanted to maintain his amateur status so he could play in the Palmer Cup (amateur team event) at St. Andews later in the month (July, 1998). His first event as a professional was the 1998 B.C. Open in early September.
• Harrison Frazar is making his 232nd career start on the TOUR this week
in Cromwell, CT. He has never won on the TOUR, but in his first 231
starts he has collected 15 top-5 finishes, including four runner-up
finishes. He also has 25 top-10 career finishes. Below is a list of his
runner-up finishes:
• Harrison Frazar was able to string together six straight birdies on
holes 10-15. Five of the six birdies putts were over 10-feet. See list
below:
• Rookie Camilo Villegas is making his 30th career professional start on
the PGA TOUR this week in Cromwell, CT. He has never won on the TOUR,
but in his first 29 starts he has collected three top-5 finishes, all
coming this year. He has four top-10 career finishes. Below is a list of
his top-10 finishes: A 54-hole leader/co-leader has gone on to victory 25 times in 54 years at the Buick Championship. In the last 10 years, four players have won after holding at least a share of the lead through 54 holes: D.A. Weibring (1996), Brent Geiberger (1999), Phil Mickelson (2001) and Peter Jacobsen (2003). • Watch for Trevor Immelman and Ryan Moore to get into the mix on Sunday. Both have runner-up finishes on the PGA TOUR. Immelman, who is making his 56th professional start on the TOUR, has two runner-up finishes – 2006 Wachovia Championship (lost in playoff) and 2006 EDS Byron Nelson Championship (2nd). Moore, who has been injured for part of the season, has one runner-up finish on the TOUR – 2005 Bell Canadian Open (T2). • Steve Flesch posted a 6-under 64 on Saturday, for his best round of the year. The last time he recorded a round of 64 or better was when he fired a 63 at PGA West - Palmer Course in the third round of the 2004 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. • Six players have a chance to record four rounds in the 60s this week – J.J. Henry (1), Ryan Moore (T3), Hunter Mahan (T8), David McKenzie (T11), Zach Johnson (T11) and Justin Leonard (T11). • There are eight players among the top-10 on the leaderboard looking for their first PGA TOUR victory. Harrison Frazar, who is two-strokes back of leader J.J. Henry, has the most TOUR starts without a victory from the list, with 232 starts (including this week). The list of players in the top-10 without a TOUR victory include: Henry, Frazar, Camilo Villegas, Ryan Moore, Trevor Immelman, Mathias Gronberg, Hunter Mahan and Joe Ogilvie • Below is a list of active PGA TOUR players without a victory, ranked in order of the most starts. The list includes this week’s start at the Buick Championship: NO. PLAYER PGA TOUR STARTS 1. Jay Delsing 525 2. Larry Rinker 523 3. Brad Fabel 436 4. Robin Freeman 377 5. Skip Kendall 362 6. Greg Kraft 352 7. Dave Rummels 336 8. Kelly Gibson 326 9. Marco Dawson 310 10. Scott Gump 307 11. Esteban Toledo 278 12. Pete Jordan 274 13. Jay Williamson 273 14. Brett Quigley 270 15. Omar Uresti 263 16. Brian Gay 244 17. Tommy Tolles 233 18. Harrison Frazar 232 19. David Sutherland215 • There was not a single eagle recorded on Saturday at the TPC River Highlands…There were two rounds of 6-under 29 posted on the back nine on Saturday -- Harrison Frazar and Steve Flesch…Please note, the two Maruyama’s (Shigeki and Daisuke) are playing together in the 8:05 a.m. pairing—they are NOT related. • There were only two bogey-free rounds on Saturday -- Corey Pavin and Kirk Triplett -- for a total of 13 bogey-free rounds for the week. • The last player to win the Buick Championship while recording an over-par round was Greg Norman in 1995, who posted rounds of 67-64-65-71. Harrison Frazar and Mathias Gronberg are the only players in the top-10 to post an over-par round this week. Frazar and Gronberg both fired a 1-over 71 in the second-round. |
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