KAPALUA, Hawaii – A few notes from Monday’s final round of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions:
Tournament winner Steve Stricker played the final five holes of the Plantation Course at 15 under par this week. He finished 23 under for the tournament …
Stricker is the second consecutive American to win this event (Jonathan Byrd won last year). Prior to that, the tournament had produced nine consecutive International winners …
Martin Laird finished as a runner-up at a PGA TOUR event for the fourth time in his career. He has two TOUR wins …
K.J. Choi and Keegan Bradley posted the lowest rounds of the day with matching 8-under 65s …
Third-round leaders/co-leaders have now gone on to win 23 of 29 times in this event …
Keegan Bradley, Ben Crane, Scott Piercy, D.A. Points and Michael Bradley had bogey-free rounds on Monday. The two Bradleys also had bogey-free rounds in Friday’s first round …
Johnson Wagner had the longest drive of the day, 414 yards at the par-4 seventh hole. In all, there were 41 drives of 400 or more yards this week …
Webb Simpson had the longest putt of the day, 39 feet, 5 inches for eagle at the par-5 fifth …
D.A. Points hit every green in regulation on Sunday.