Boeing Championship: Final-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff DESTIN, Fla. -- At the Boeing Championship at Sandestin on Sunday, Loren Roberts claimed his sixth career title on the Champions Tour and second Champions Tour title (2006 ACE Group Classic) in Florida. Roberts also won a pair of Florida titles on the PGA TOUR, triumphing in back-to-back years at the Nestle Invitational (1994, 1995) at Bay Hill near Orlando.  Loren Roberts earned his ninth career Champions Tour victory at Sandestin. (Michael Cohen/WireImage)
• Loren Roberts' sixth win on the Champions Tour came in his 39th career start. Roberts won five times in his first 20 starts on the circuit, but was 0-18 coming into this week at Sandestin. Prior to his win Sunday, Roberts' last victory came, ironically, over Eduardo Romero in a playoff at the Senior British Open in mid-July of 2006. • After finishing T3 last year at this event, Loren Roberts became the 13th different winner of the Boeing Championship at Sandestin in as many years as the event has been held in the Florida Panhandle. The highest finish this year by a past champion was Bob Gilder, the 2003 winner, who was T3. Roberts now has registered six consecutive rounds in the 60s on The Raven Golf Club at Sandestin course. • Loren Roberts' three-stroke comeback in the final round is the largest at this event since Mike McCullough rallied from three strokes back to eventually claim the 2001 event in a playoff with Andy North at The Moors. His 16-under 197 total matched Jim Thorpe's 16-under, three-round total in 2005 for the second lowest in relation to par. Only Bob Gilder's 17-under 193 score when he won at The Moors in 2003 is lower in relation to par. • At 51 years, 11 months and 10 days, Loren Roberts is the second-youngest winner in event history and the youngest since Dana Quigley claimed the 1998 event at 51 years, 4 months and 23 days. • Loren Roberts' 54-hole total of 16-under 197 at the Boeing Championship is his second lowest on the Champions Tour. His career low is his 25-under 191 total at the 2006 MasterCard Championship at Hualalai, which he also won. • Loren Roberts made a big move in the Charles Schwab Cup race, earning 248 points Sunday as a result of his win. Roberts vaulted from sixth into the third spot with 922 points on the year. Jay Haas earned 73 points this week and continues to lead the season-long race with 1,215 points. • Denis Watson earned 47 points and holds down the second-place spot with 1,070 points. Eduardo Romero is now fourth in the Schwab Cup race with 845 points and Brad Bryant is fifth with 819 points. At the end of the official season, the player earning the most points will receive a $1 million annuity from Charles Schwab. • Loren Roberts also earned a check for $247,500 and joined Jay Haas as the only other player to go over the $1 million mark in single-season earnings this year. Roberts has now pocketed $1,055,047 in 2007. • Loren Roberts is the only winner in tournament history to record a double bogey over his 54 holes. Roberts made a double-bogey 6 on the 18th hole in Saturday's second round. Roberts made just two bogeys in the tournament, the fewest by a winner of this event since Dana Quigley made just two in 1997. Roberts became the fifth straight champion to not record an eagle in the event. • For the second consecutive week, Eduardo Romero finished second. At last week's Senior PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, Romero was bested by Denis Watson. • Dana Quigley's final-round 66 Sunday moved him up into a T5 with Jay Haas. Quigley's performance this week extended his streak of finishes among the top-14 in this event to six consecutive years. He finished T14 last year, T7 in 2005, T12 in 2004 and T5 in both 2002-2003. • For the second time in three days, 71-year-old Bob Charles bettered his age with a final-round 68 Sunday. On Friday, Charles carded a 1-under 70. He's now bettered his age six times on the Champions Tour, but Sunday's three-stroke margin between his score and his age was the widest in his career. • After posting an 80 Saturday, Nick Price improved his score by 17 strokes with a 63 Sunday. Price's round was his career-best on the Champions Tour and one stroke off his career-low score on the PGA TOUR (62-3 times, most recent at the 2003 FedEx St. Jude Classic/4th rd.). Like fellow Hall of Famer Raymond Floyd last year, Price had the low round of the day and also equaled the best third-round score in event history (Bob Gilder, Tom Jenkins, Don Pooley and Dave Barr all had 63s on Sunday at The Moors). • Bobby Wadkins finished T14 in defense of his title. Later this year at the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship, Wadkins will have another chance to defend. • Statistical News and Notes: Fuzzy Zoeller hit the longest measured drive Sunday (339 yards, par-4 14th). ... Bob Gilder, James Mason and Loren Roberts all missed just two greens Sunday. ... Rod Spittle needed just 23 putts Sunday while Nick Price had only 24. Spittle had an amazing 14 one-putts, including nine in a row (No. 2 thru No. 10), and still shot 71. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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