Canadian Open Final-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff MARKHAM, Ontario -- Jim Furyk earned his 13th career PGA TOUR victory in his 357th TOUR event at the age of 37 years, 2 months and 17 days. He has 115 career top-10s in those 357 career starts, and is the 11th American in the last 13 years to win the Canadian Open.  Jim Furyk became the first back-to-back winner of the Canadian Open since Jim Ferrier in 1950-'51. (Stan Badz/PGA TOUR/WireImage)
• His winning check of $900,000 increases his career money for the Canadian Open to $1,838,830.00. He is No. 2 on the tournament's all-time money list. He now has $34,998,332 in career earnings, sixth on the all-time list. • He becomes the 16th player to win the Canadian Open at least twice. The last to do it was Steve Jones, who won in 1989 and again in 1997. His win gives him multiple tournament wins in two different events, as he also won in Las Vegas in 1995, 1998 and 1999). • Furyk made a hole-in-one on the 209-yard, par-3 fourth hole Sunday using a 5-iron. The ace moved him to 13 under par at the time and in sole possession of the lead. Furyk played that single hole in 5 under par this week. He rolled in birdie putts of 18 feet, 11 feet and 13 feet the first three days before making his ace today. It's the third competitive hole-in-one for Furyk and the 21st on the PGA TOUR this year. • In contrast to Furyk's birdie-birdie-birdie-eagle success (5 under par) at the fourth hole, Vijay Singh went bogey-bogey-par-bogey (3 over par) on that hole during the four days. • The last player to make a hole-in-one and go on to win that tournament was Mark Hensby, who had an ace in the first round of the 2004 John Deere Classic. The last player to make a hole-in-one in the Canadian Open was Victor Ciesielski in the second round last year. • Jim Furyk's 64 Sunday matches the second-best final round score of his PGA TOUR career. Furyk's all-time best is a 63 (9 under) on the last day of the 1998 Las Vegas Invitational, which he won. He also posted 64s in the final round of the 1995 B.C. Open (7 under) and the 2006 Buick Open (8 under). • Jim Furyk's victory Sunday marks the 10th straight tournament on the PGA TOUR where the 54-hole leader/co-leader failed to win. Rory Sabbatini was part of a four-way tie after 54 holes and the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial and went on to win in a playoff. • Jim Furyk (69-66-69-64/first), Vijay Singh (69-65-68-68/second), Bob Heintz (69-69-67-67/tied for fifth) and Tom Pernice, Jr. (68-68-69-69/tied for 10th) were the only players in the field to post four rounds in the 60s this week. They bring the all-time total to 38 players who have done that in Canadian Open history. • Hunter Mahan's tie for fifth this week moves him from No. 16 to No. 12 on the FedExCup points list. Mahan is also doing his best to play his way onto the United States Presidents Cup team, which will compete at the Royal Montreal Golf Club Sept. 24-30. Mahan began the week in the No. 16 spot but should move up based on his third-place finish this week. Mahan earned $190,000 this week and could move as high as No. 13. The top-10 after the PGA Championship in two weeks will make the team, captained by Jack Nicklaus. • Vijay Singh's runner-up finish this week was worth 2,700 FedExCup points. Singh closed the gap on leader Tiger Woods. Woods' lead over Singh was 4,529 points and is now down to 1,829 points. • George McNeill (66-271) posted his first career top-10 this week with his tie for third. McNeill, in his rookie season on the PGA TOUR, also moved up from No. 147 to No. 105 on the FedExCup points list while collecting a career-best $290,000 in the process.
• Ryan Palmer shot a final-round 66 and wound up at 13-under 271. His tie for third this week is his first top-10 finish in 21 starts on the 2007 PGA TOUR. It's also Palmer's first top-10 since a fifth-place effort at the 2006 Chrysler Classic of Greensboro. Palmer began the week No. 189 on the FedExCup points list and moved up 62 places to No. 127. • Rookie Brandt Snedeker continues to build a possible Rookie-of-the-Year resume. The Vanderbilt graduate shot a final-round 68 and wound up tied for seventh. Snedeker has made the cut in 18 of his 23 starts this year, with five top-10 and 10 top-25 finishes to his credit. He also moved up from No. 32 to No. 25 on the FedExCup points list and to No. 27 on the money list. • Bob Heintz had only two top-10 finishes in 102 career starts prior to last week. The Yale University grad has doubled his career total to four in the past two weeks. Heintz finished tied for fifth at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee last week and added another tie for fifth this week. Heintz has jumped from No. 170 on the FedExCup points list two weeks ago, to No. 155 last week, to No. 122 week. He has also moved up from No. 147 to No. 121 on the money list, and has already earned a career-best $491,926 this year. • Australian Steve Allan also recorded his first top-10 finish of the 2007 season. Allan, who shared the 36-hole lead with rookie John Mallinger, shot an even-par 71 Sunday and wound up tied for seventh. Allan might be considered one of the favorites at next week's Reno-Tahoe Open. Allan lost a playoff to Vaughn Taylor there in 2004 and tied for ninth in 2005, his last top-10 finish on TOUR prior to this week. • John Mallinger tied for seventh this week and moved up from No. 76 to No. 63 on the FedExCup points list. This is Mallinger's third top-10 finish of his rookie campaign. His paycheck of $155,833 also pushes his season total over the $1 million mark. • Camilo Villegas rallied from a triple bogey on the par-3 sixth hole and turned in a 6-under-par 30 on the back nine Sunday, finishing at 10-under 274 and tied for 10th. • Alex Cejka had 10 birdies during the final round and shot a 7-under-par 64, finishing the week at 10-under 274 and tied for 10th. Craig Bowden turned in scores of 42-32--74 Sunday. Bowden hit only 2 of 9 greens on the front and 8 of 9 greens on the back. • Bryce Molder cashed his first paycheck of the 2007 season this week. Molder shot a final-round 75 and wound up tied for 58th place but still collected $10,850. • Four Canadians played all four rounds this week. Stephen Ames (70-69-69-69--277) tied for 26th; Mike Weir (71-70-67-71--279) tied for 34th; David Hearn (65-73-73-73--284) tied for 58th; and Chris Baryla (74-66-74-72--286) tied for 70th. • George McNeill was 58 of 60 on putts inside 10 feet this week (96.67%). Camilo Villegas hit 61 of 72 greens in regulation (84.7%) this week. The tournament record is 62 of 72 (86.1%) by Lee Janzen and Per-Ulrik Johansson in 2002. Bart Bryant, Olin Browne and Steve Jones all hit 50 of 56 fairways this week. |
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