Runner-up Tiger Woods has now finished second 20 times in his career on the PGA TOUR, while Mathew Goggin posted the first of his career. • Prior to Sunday, Vijay Singh had won 13 of the previous 14 tournaments in which he had held the third-round lead. He is now 17 of 26 overall when leading after 54 holes, with two of the nine events in which he failed to win coming at the Cialis Western Open (1998 and 2006). • The 54-hole leader has won 20 out of 27 stroke-play events on the 2006 PGA TOUR, while at the Cialis Western Open the 54-hole leader has won 56 times in 98 72-hole events. • Australian Stephen Leaney’s tie for fourth finish this week is just his third top-10 finish (in 75 starts) since finishing solo second at the 2003 U.S. Open at Olympia Fields. Monday Qualifier Scott Gutschewski (tied for 10th) also posted the first top-10 finish of the season (and his career) this week. • Jim Furyk’s tie for fourth finish on Sunday gives him five consecutive top-10 finishes at the Cialis Western Open and seven overall. In fact, in his last eight starts at Cog Hill G&CC he has finished outside the top-7 just once (tie for 34th in 1999). • Three-time champion Tiger Woods also posted his seventh top-10 finish at the Cialis Western Open this week with a second-place showing. Since turning pro, Woods is a perfect nine for nine in made cuts at the tournament. • Trevor Immelman and Mathew Goggin both posted all four rounds in the 60s this week. Prior to Sunday and since the tournament moved to Cog Hill Golf and Country Club in 1991, this feat had been performed just six times, most recently by Jerry Kelly and Brandt Jobe in 2002. • Tim Clark (tied for fourth) and rookie Daisuke Maruyama (tied for 19th) posted the round of the day with matching 5-under-par 66s. It represented the fourth top-10 finish of the season for Clark, while the round for Maruyama was his career best. • Stuart Appleby eagled the par-4 18th hole by holing out his approach shot from 168 yards. He used the shot -- along with a birdie on the 17th hole -- to move to 7-under-par 277 and a tie for 12th place. Appleby’s eagle was one of 24 for the week at the Cog Hill G&CC. • Among the nine past champions of the Cialis Western Open competing this week, Tiger Woods posted the best finish with his runner-up showing. The others included Jim Furyk (tied for fourth), Stephen Ames (tied for 21st), Robert Allenby (tied for 30th), Jerry Kelly (tied for 30th), Scott Verplank (tied for 30th), Steve Stricker (tied for 42nd), Billy Mayfair (tied for 54th) and Joe Durant (tied for 58th). • Eighteen-year-old amateur Jamie Lovemark finished in a tie for 54th this week. He joins a short -- albeit impressive -- list of amateurs who have made the cut since the Cialis Western Open moved to Cog Hill G&CC in 1991: David Duval (tied for 19th in 1992), Justin Leonard (tied for 25th in 1993), Tiger Woods (tied for 57th in 1995) and Danny Green (tied for 57th in 1998). A year ago, the then 17-year-old Lovemark made history by becoming the youngest player to win the prestigious Western Amateur Championship. • Paul Stankowski, playing this year on a Major Medical Extension due to a wrist injury suffered in 2004, will need $11,953 in his next start to remain in the Major Medical Extension category for the remainder of the year. He entered the 2006 campaign with 14 events to earn $180,390 and has now earned $168,437 in 13 events to this point. • Based on the mini-money list -- which was comprised of THE PLAYERS Championship earnings, along with the five tournaments up-to and including the Cialis Western Open -- J.J. Henry (No. 8) and Billy Andrade (No. 11) gained entrance into the British Open Championship. With Mathew Goggin’s top-10 finish this week, he also earned an invitation based on being the top finisher at the Cialis Western Open among players not previously eligible. With Henry qualifying through the mini-money list, Hunter Mahan’s tie for second finish at last week’s Buick Championship also earned him an invitation. • Cog Hill G&CC’s Dubsdread Course played to an average of 71.366 this week, with the par-4 13th hole playing the hardest at 4.276. The par-5 15th hole was the easiest at 4.611. • There were no bogey-free rounds on Sunday, with the total for the week remaining at 12. • Carl Pettersson (tied for fourth), who had played his last two rounds without a bogey, had extended his bogey-free streak to 48 holes before posting a double-bogey on the par-4 13th hole Sunday. |
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