AT&T National: Final-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff BETHESDA, Md. -- With his victory Sunday in the AT&T National, K.J. Choi earns his sixth career victory on the PGA TOUR and his second of the 2007 season at the age of 37 years, one month and 19 days. His previous wins came at the 2002 COMPAQ Classic of New Orleans, 2002 Tampa Bay Classic presented by Buick, 2005 Chrysler Classic of Greensboro, 20006 Chrysler Championship and 2007 Memorial Tournament.  Steve Stricker earned his second runner-up finish of the 2007 season on Sunday. (Hunter Martin/WireImage)
• Choi earns 4,500 FedExCup points to move to No. 4 in the FedExCup standings through 28 events of the 36-tournament PGA TOUR Regular Season, with 13,589 points. • Choi collects his second win of the season in 18 starts in the 2007, and becomes the fifth multiple winner in 2007, joining Tiger Woods (Buick Invitational, World Golf Championships-CA Championship, Wachovia Championship), Phil Mickelson (AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, THE PLAYERS Championship), Vijay Singh (Mercedes-Benz Championship, Arnold Palmer Invitational) and Zach Johnson (Masters Tournament, AT&T Classic). • Choi picks up a $1,080,000 first-place check, the largest of his career, bringing his season earnings on the PGA TOUR to $3,243,629, ranked fourth on the season money list. He becomes the fourth player to earn more than $3 million in season earnings in 2007. In his eighth season on the PGA TOUR, Choi surpasses the $14-million mark in career earnings ($14,805,424) since becoming a member in 2000. • With six TOUR wins, Choi has the most wins by an Asian-born player on the PGA TOUR. Shigeki Maruyama of Japan has three TOUR titles on his resume. Choi and Maruyama are the only Asian-born players to win multiple events on the TOUR. • Choi now has five top-10 finishes for the season. He has collected 38 career top-10s in 213 professional starts and has finished in the top-25 76 times. • Steve Stricker earned his second runner-up finish of the 2007 season, having finished solo second to Tiger Woods at the Wachovia Championship. He now ranks T7 in top-10s with five. • Steve Stricker jumped to eighth in the United States Presidents Cup team points with his solo runner-up finish this week. He now has 6,471,739 points, while points leader Tiger Woods has 23,464,768 points. • Robert Allenby (T3), Jim Furyk (T3) and Tiger Woods (T6) all notched top-10s this week and all have seven on the season, tied with David Toms for most on TOUR in 2007. • Hunter Mahan, on the strength of a final-round 65, made the largest jump into the top-10 in the final round. Mahan, who won the Travelers Championships two weeks ago, started the day T47 and finished T8. Mahan's 65 matched Shigeki Maruyama's third-round 65 for low round of the week. • Brandt Snedeker (T8) notched his fourth top-10 of his rookie season. Along with Anthony Kim and Steve Marino, Snedeker trails only Jeff Quinney's five for most top-10s among rookies. Quinney finished just outside the top-10 at T12. • Jim Furyk is the only player in the field to finish in the top-10 at the 1997 U.S. Open and the inaugural AT&T National, both held at Congressional Golf Club. Furyk finished T5 in 1997 and T3 Sunday. • After struggling during the middle of the season, Jim Furyk has rebounded with his fourth top-10 in his last five starts. During that stretch, he has four finishes of T5 or better. They include a P2 at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, a T23 at the Memorial, a T2 at the U.S. Open and a T5 at the Buick Open. |
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