Notes: Nationwide Tour alums have great week

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• This week's Price Cutter Charity Championship in Springfield, Mo., is one of four original events remaining on the Nationwide Tour schedule from the inaugural season of 1990. Tournaments in Knoxville, Wichita and Boise are the other original stops still on the schedule.

Adamonis

• Last week's John Deere Classic was a good one for alumni of the Nationwide Tour. Nine of the 11 players who recorded Top-10 finishes were former Nationwide Tour players led by runners-up Brad Adamonis and Jay Williamson.

• The Nationwide Tour will be well represented at this week's British Open with 36 former or current players in the field. Four alums have won the world's oldest golf tournament?John Daly (1995), Tom Lehman (1996), David Duval (2001) and Ernie Els (2002).

• In 2004, Tyler Williamson set the tournament 18-hole record when he strung together 12 birdies in the final round to shoot a 60. Williamson had six birdies on the front and back nines and moved from a tie for 23rd when the day began to a tie for third.

• A year ago, Tom Scherrer's 66-63 start to the tournament was good for a two-stroke lead over Justin Bolli. But despite his fine play?36 holes that included only one bogey and two eagles?Scherrer missed tying the 36-hole record by a stroke. That mark is shared by Joe Ogilvie (2003), Troy Matteson (2005) and Boo Weekley (2006). That trio has all gone on to win on the PGA TOUR, with Ogilvie defending his 2007 U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee crown this week.

LaBelle II

• The last player to make this tournament the first Nationwide Tour victory of his career was Doug LaBelle II. He won the event in 2006 by two strokes over Nick Flanagan.

• Although there have been six playoffs in tournament history, an extra session has not decided the winner since 2000, when Pat Perez defeated Pat Bates, Mike Heinen and Omar Uresti.

• Last year's winner Tom Scherrer and runner-up Franklin Langham are in positions three and four on the Nationwide Tour's all-time money list. Scherrer is one of three players to have surpassed the $1 million mark ($1,094,491), while Langham has earned $988,979.