John Deere Classic: Final-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff SILVIS, Ill. -- Jonathan Byrd's John Deere Classic title on Sunday gives him three career PGA TOUR victories. He now has the most wins for an American-born player under the age of 30 on TOUR. Charles Howell III is now second on the list with two career titles. Byrd ends a three-year streak of players collecting their first TOUR win at the John Deere Classic.  Jonathan Byrd now has won three PGA TOUR titles, the most of any American in his 20s. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)
• Jonathan Byrd earns a spot in next week's Open Championship because of his position as low top-10 finisher not already exempt. Byrd's former Clemson University teammate, Lucas Glover, remains as the first alternate for the Open. Byrd will be competing in his first career Open next week. • With his victory Sunday, Jonathan Byrd picks up 4,500 FedExCup points and moves into 23rd on the season-long points list. Tiger Woods remains atop the FedExCup points standings with 20,392 points. Vijay Singh remains in second with 16,183 points and Phil Mickelson stays in third with 15,818 points. • Tim Clark's runner-up finish is his best PGA TOUR finish since a runner-up at the 2006 Masters. Clark is not eligible for next week's Open Championship, thus ending his streak of consecutive major championships played at 15. • Carl Pettersson had the best finish by a player already exempt for the Open, fifth. Of the eight players already exempt into Carnoustie at the start of the week, only Pettersson and Duffy Waldorf (T50) were able to make it to the weekend. • Jonathan Byrd's first-place check of $738,000 moves him into first place on the all-time John Deere Classic money list with $1,096,772. 2002 John Deere Classic champion J.P. Hayes moves from fist to second with $1,091,199. Byrd also moves from 98th to 37th on PGA TOUR Official Money List with $1,340,080. His career earnings now stand at $7,523,466. • Nathan Green's bogey on the par-3 third hole on Sunday was his first front-nine bogey of the week. Prior to the final round, Green had recorded 14 pars and 13 birdies on the front nine at TPC Deere Run. • Heath Slocum's final-round 65 was his lowest final round score on the PGA TOUR since the 2005 Valero Texas Open, where he shot 65 as well. Slocum has now carded 11 of his past 12 rounds at the John Deere Classic in the 60s and is a collective 40-under-par in the last three years at this event. • Players carding all four rounds in the 60s: Jonathan Byrd, Tim Clark, Troy Matteson, Jeff Gove, Michael Sim, and Stephen Leaney. • Drive for show and putt for dough: Carl Pettersson, Nathan Green, and Tim Clark all finished in the top five in both the tournament and Putting Average for the week. • This marks the seventh consecutive event on the PGA TOUR where the third-round leader has failed to win the tournament.
• Ted Purdy's front-nine 29 on Sunday was the lowest nine-hole score of the week. Purdy joins nine other players who have recorded a nine-hole score of 29 or less on the 2007 PGA TOUR. The lowest nine-hole score this year came from Brandt Snedeker in round one of the Buick Invitational (27). The nine-hole record for the John Deere Classic was set last year by Zach Johnson and Kent Jones (front nine: 28). • J.P. Hayes finished T15, the highest finish by a former John Deere Classic champion. This is the first year since 2001 that a past champion has not finished in the top-10. • Harrison Frazar, who ranks T39 in Total Eagles in 2007, recorded two eagles this week and is the only player to have done so. • The eagles were flying on Sunday. Lucas Glover eagled No. 8, while No. 2 surrendered eagles to Tommy Armour III, Tom Byrum, Harrison Frazar, Bernhard Langer and Duffy Waldorf. • Only three players recorded bogey-free rounds on Sunday: Jonathan Byrd, Kevin Sutherland, and Greg Kraft. • For the 32nd consecutive year, the winning score at the John Deere Classic was in double digits. The winning score has failed to reach double digits only three times in the event's 37-year history: 1975 (Roger Maltbie 5-under 275), 1972 (Deane Beman 5-under 279) and 1971 Deane Beman (7-under 277). • Jonathan Byrd earns his third PGA TOUR victory in his 157th career professional TOUR start at the age of 29 years, 5 months, 19 days. His previous victories came in the 2002 Buick Challenge and the 2004 B.C. Open. • Byrd is the seventh winner in eight years at TPC Deere Run to post four rounds in the 60s. He is now a perfect 5-for-5 in made cuts at the John Deere Classic, with two top-10s (1st in 2007 and T2 in 2003). • Five of the eight winners at TPC Deere Run have done so in come-from-behind fashion after 54 holes. • With three career PGA TOUR wins, Jonathan Byrd now leads American players in their 20s. Charles Howell III has two wins. |
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