Trust the TOUR Insider. Tiger Woods won’t extend his winning streak to seven this week at the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro.

OK, so he’s not entered at Forest Oaks Country Club. After winning his sixth straight PGA TOUR event and eighth of the year at the World Golf Championships-American Express Championship, Woods is taking a break. Obviously, the man lacks ambition.

That leaves 131 players to vie for the $900,000 first prize. K.J. Choi, the defending champion, is the 132nd player in the field, but he isn’t likely to win, not with the Curse of the Sambino to overcome.

Sam Snead, the Slammer, won this thing eight times. He won the inaugural title in 1938. He’s the only man to win back-to-back titles, having done it twice, 1948-49 and ’55-56. That was half a century ago on TI’s scorecard.

No one else is allowed to win it twice in a row. Only three times has a defending champion finished second in defense of his title, and one of them, Dow Finsterwald, shot six strokes lower in 1960 than he did in winning in ’59, but was relegated to runner-up by … wait for it … you guessed it, Snead.

Mike Souchak kept Snead from a third repeat in ’61, beating him by seven. So, no repeating allowed – at least not until next year. Yes, maybe next year will be different, when the event, which remains part of the schedule in the FedExCup season, gets renamed the Wyndham Championship, and the city’s name comes off the marquee after a 68-year run.

Last year: With birdies on five of six holes to open his final round, K.J. Choi fired a closing 6-under-par 66 to finish at 22-under 266, two better than Shigeki Maruyama. Choi was one of two players to shoot four sub-70 rounds (Carl Pettersson, who tied for 11th, was the other). He was never more than two strokes out of the lead following an opening 64.

How he did it: Driving and putting for dough. Choi, you might say, led start to finish. He was first in driving accuracy, hitting nearly 84 percent of his fairways, and he was first in putting average and second in putts per round. No wonder he had 26 birdies and just four bogeys.

Strange but true: Tiger Woods and D.J. Trahan posted wire-to-wire wins at the American Express Championship and Southern Farm Bureau Classic, respectively, believed to be a first on the PGA TOUR that's occurred in simultaneously played events. Andy Bean piled on by winning his first Champions Tour title in wire-to-wire fashion at the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn.

True but not so strange: Davis Love III, the 1992 champion, hasn’t made the cut at Greensboro since he redesigned Forest Oaks Country Club in 2003.

Worth knowing:

D.J. Trahan won his first TOUR title at the Southern Farm Bureau Classic. (Martin/WireImage)

•Watch out for D.J. Trahan. He broke his maiden in Mississippi, and now he goes to the Greensboro, where he was tied for the lead with K.J. Choi after 54 holes only to sink to joint 13th with a closing 75, the highest final round among the top 44 finishers.

•The defending champion isn’t to be overlooked either. Choi has finished in the top seven in his last four starts at Forest Oaks.

•The last seven winners at Greensboro have held or shared the 54-hole lead, the longest such streak on the PGA TOUR, and the method of victory endorsed by Tiger Woods, he of the 38-of-41 success rate while leading through three rounds.

• Retief Goosen is running out of chances to extend his streak of seasons with at least one PGA TOUR victory. Goosen probably has one or two starts left, including the TOUR Championship, to run his year-to-year streak to six, the second longest run behind Tiger Woods.

• Tom Lehman withdrew prior to the first round of the American Express Championship to return to attend Byron Nelson’s funeral, giving up a chance to win at least $35,000. By the way, Els and Ian Poulter played as a twosome in the opening two rounds – and went on to finish fifth and second, respectively.

•Els was the only player outside the top 30 on the money list to move into that category after last week’s events and now stands 28th. Other than his season-ending injury in 2005, Els has never missed the TOUR Championship. He played the American Express with a new caddie, having parted with long-time looper Ricky Roberts. Malcolm Mason, who used to caddie for Sam Torrance, carried the Big Easy’s bag in England and might be on the job later this month at the Chrysler Championship.

•Forest Oak is a putter’s paradise, at least for those who aren’t necessarily good putters. Choi needed 107 putts last year in his victory, though he ranked 70th in putts per round in ’05. Two years before Shigeki Maruyama won with 101 putts; he ranked 62nd in putting. Brent Geiberger ranked 83rd in putting in ’04 when he won the same event his father, Al, captured in 1976, but sported a 1.707 putting average during his winning week. Mark Calcavecchia was second behind Rocco Mediate in 2002 despite tying the TOUR record with 93 putts over 72 holes. He ranked 73rd in putts per round that year.

TI’s power ranking for the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro: 1. Brett Quigley, 2. K.J. Choi, 3. Justin Rose, 4. Ryan Moore, 5. D.J. Trahan.

Parting shot: "I've got a bunch of stuff to do over the next couple weeks. I've got to host a block party and a fundraiser for my Foundation and do a bunch of things for some sponsors. I know I'm not going to touch a club for a couple weeks." – Tiger Woods, after winning his sixth straight PGA TOUR event in England at the World Golf Championships-American Express Championship