•After four players accomplished the feat last year, just one - Adam Scott - has the opportunity this year to post all four rounds in the 60s. Just 16 of 564 players in the history of THE TOUR Championship have managed to card four rounds in the 60s.

•Four Rounds in the 60s at THE TOUR Championship
1987 -- Tom Watson -- Oak Hills CC -- W
1990 -- Jodie Mudd -- Champions GC -- W
1999 -- Tiger Woods -- Champions GC -- W
1999 -- Brent Geiberger -- Champions GC -- 3
2000 -- Phil Mickelson -- East Lake GC -- W
2000 -- Tiger Woods -- East Lake GC -- 2
2001 -- Mike Weir -- Champions GC -- W
2001 -- Ernie Els -- Champions GC -- T2
2001 -- Sergio Garcia -- Champions GC -- T2
2001 -- Chris DiMarco -- Champions GC -- T10
2002 -- Charles Howell III -- East Lake GC -- 2
2003 -- Retief Goosen -- Champions GC -- 3
2005 -- Bart Bryant -- East Lake GC -- W
2005 -- Tiger Woods -- East Lake GC -- 2
2005 -- Scott Verplank -- East Lake GC -- 3
2005 -- Vijay Singh -- East Lake GC -- T4

•Adam Scott 54-hole Statistics:
Driving Distance 290.3 yards
Driving Accuracy 29 of 42
Greens In Regulation 38 of 54
Putts Per Round 28.66
Putting Average (GIR) 1.737

•The top echelon of the Official World Golf Ranking is well-represented this week as six players in the top-10 in the OWGR are in the top-10 entering the final round:
1 Adam Scott -- 4
T2 Vijay Singh -- 5
T4 Jim Furyk -- 2
T4 Retief Goosen -- 6
T8 Ernie Els -- 7
T8 Luke Donald -- 8

•Adam Scott posted just the second eagle of the week - on the par-5 15th hole, hitting his second shot from 215 yards to two feet. Luke Donald eagled No. 15 on Friday.

•Northwestern University graduate Luke Donald and University of Iowa fan (Drake graduate) Zach Johnson were paired together on Saturday - with Donald posting a 69 vs. Johnson's 71. On the gridiron Saturday, Northwestern topped Iowa 21-7.

•Ponte Vedra Beach residents Vijay Singh (T2) and Jim Furyk (T4) have a head-to-head battle on Sunday as they both have 12 top-10s on the season - the most on TOUR.

•Vijay Singh has 10 top-10s in 12 starts at THE TOUR Championship, three more than Davis Love III. His 12 consecutive starts are the most starts among active players. Singh has the opportunity in 2006 to finish among the top five on the PGA TOUR Official Money List for the ninth consecutive year.

•Vijay Singh, who entered this week 37th on TOUR in Greens in Regulation (67.59%), leads the field this week at 77.79. Singh finished fourth in the GIR category last year (70.5%).

•Speaking of Singh, one of his 29 career PGA TOUR victories came at THE TOUR Championship, in 2002 where he held the 54-hole lead for the third consecutive time at East Lake Golf Club (1998, 2000, 2002) before winning by two strokes over Charles Howell III.

•While the scoring conditions were easier on Saturday (69.852) as winds were limited (E 8-12 mph), the leading total of 7-under-par matches the highest leading 54-hole total at THE TOUR Championship at East Lake GC, Vijay Singh (1998).

•The fifth hole, with its added length of 520 yards (redesigned in 2005) has once again proved to be the most difficult hole at East Lake Golf Club this week, averaging 4.481. Last year, it was most difficult at 4.267.

•Ernie Els, who posted a 4-under-par 66 and sits T8 heading into Sunday's final round, returns to THE TOUR Championship in 2006 after a one-year hiatus due to his knee injury and consequent surgery last summer. The 15-time winner searching for his first TOUR win in more than two years - his last victory being the WGC-American Express Championship that ended on October 3, 2004. Els won by one stroke over Thomas Bjorn at Mount Juliet Conrad in Kilkenny, Ireland. Els has played in 11 of the last 13 TOUR Championships dating back to 1994, his rookie season on TOUR when he captured the U.S. Open.