Wyndham Championship: Final-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Brandt Snedeker's 9-under 63 Sunday is the low finish by a tournament winner on the PGA TOUR this year, bettering Woody Austin's 8-under-par 62 at the Stanford St. Jude Championship. His 9-under score is the best by a tournament winner since Kirk Triplett's 9-under 63 at the 2006 Chrysler Classic of Tucson.  Kevin Stadler was one of two players to make two eagles Sunday at Forest Oaks. (Jonathan Ernst/WireImage)
• Brandt Snedeker kept making more and more putts as the week went on, and the former Vanderbilt University standout increased his distance made each of the four days. He drained 40 feet, 7 inches worth of birdie putts on Thursday; 50 feet, 8 inches worth on Friday; 94 feet, 4 inches worth on Saturday; and a whopping 118 feet, 9 inches worth of birdie putts on Sunday. • For the week, Brandt Snedeker was 41 for 41 on putts inside 3 feet and 63 for 68 on putts inside 10 feet. • Brandt Snedeker's weekend score of 129 (66-63) matches the second-best final 36 holes on the 2007 PGA TOUR. Tournament winner Aaron Baddeley posted a 128 total (64-64) at the FBR Open. • Brandt Snedeker ends a streak of third-round leaders who have gone on to win the Wyndham Championship. He is the first player to come from behind on the final day since 1998 when Trevor Dodds rallied from three off the lead to beat Scott Verplank in a playoff. • With his birdie at No. 16 Sunday, Jeff Maggert broke the tournament record for most birdies in a year with 28. The previous mark of 27 in a single year was set by Jesper Parnevik in 1999 and tied by Charles Warren in 2005. Maggert shot a 66 today and wound up in 12th place at 16 under par. • Kevin Stadler tied for seventh this week and collected 727.50 FedExCup points, which moved to No. 106 on the season-long points list. Stadler was No. 157 following the Canadian Open but moved to No. 121 with a runner-up finish at the Reno-Tahoe Open last week. • Tim Petrovic's only PGA TOUR win came at the 2005 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, where he defeated James Driscoll in a playoff. Both Petrovic and Driscoll held the final-round lead Sunday but failed to win -- Petrovic here at the Wyndham Championship and Driscoll at the Nationwide Tour's Xerox Classic. Both players finished second in their respective tournaments. • Greg Kraft fired a 6-under-par 66 and wound up in sixth place at 18-under par. Kraft's last top-10 finish on the PGA TOUR was a tie for sixth at the 2002 Touchstone Energy Tucson Open, a span of 69 events. • Billy Mayfair (67-268) wound up third this week, his fifth top-10 finish of the year and his third in his last six starts (six cuts made). This is Mayfair's best finish of the year -- he was fifth at at the FBR Open back in February and also tied for ninth at both the Travelers Championship and the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee. It is also his best finish on the PGA TOUR since he wound up tied for third at the 2006 Verizon Heritage. Mayfair also made a jump from No. 75 to No. 34 in the FedExCup points list.
• Shigeki Maruyama's bogey-free run ended on the first hole Sunday when the 2003 tournament champion missed a par putt of 9 feet, 10 inches. The bogey was the first of the week for Maruyama and ended his streak at 63 consecutive holes -- Maruyama's last birdie had come on the ninth hole in the second round last week (missed the cut). • Shigeki Maruyama earned $145,500 this week, pushing his all-time tournament money total to $1,632,252. • Eric Axley and Kevin Stadler each had two eagles Sunday on par 5s -- Nos. 2 and 13. They become the fourth and fifth players this week to make two eagles in a round, joining Nathan Green, Tripp Isenhour and Will MacKenzie. • Rookie Johnson Wagner put together four rounds in the 60s for the first time this year. Wagner wound up at 14-under and tied for 21st place. Wagner's best finish this year is a tie for ninth at the Shell Houston Open. • Bob Estes began the tournament with a bogey on his opening hole (No. 10) on Thursday and played bogey-free the rest of the way. Estes played the final 71 holes with 14 birdies and 57 pars and wound up 13 under par and tied for 26th. • Jason Gore made a late-run up the leaderboard by playing the final 10 holes in 5 under par despite a bogey on the final hole. Gore wound up at 17-under-par 271 and tied for seventh place. The former 84 Lumber Classic winner was outstanding on the par 5s this week, playing them in 16 under par (14 birdies, one eagle). |
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