Round 4 Notebook: Shell Houston Open

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• With the victory, Johnson Wagner collects 4,500 FedExCup points to move from No. 188 to No. 18 in the points standings, with 4,680 points. Tiger Woods maintains the top spot with 14,775 points. The win was worth a career-best $1,008,000 for the former Virginia Tech All-American, eclipsing the $378,000 he earned in finishing second at the 2007 Viking Classic.

• The victory for the 28-year-old Wagner also earns him his first ticket to the Masters Tournament. The odds will be stacked against him collecting a Green Jacket, however. Since 1934, only 10 players have won the tournament before a Major Championship and then claimed one of the game's top prizes. The last to do so was Tiger Woods with his wins at the 2007 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the PGA Championship.

• Johnson Wagner's victory snaps a string of four consecutive international winners at the Shell Houston Open, including Vijay Singh in 2004-05, Stuart Appleby in 2006 and Adam Scott in 2007. In fact, Wagner's victory is just the third by an American at the tournament since 1999 (Hal Sutton in 2001 and Fred Couples in 2003).

Wagner

• By the numbers on Johnson Wagner: He becomes the first first-time winner of the Shell Houston Open since Robert Allenby in 2000 and the 13th overall. He becomes the 101st different Nationwide Tour player to win on the PGA TOUR, with his victory the 225th by a former Nationwide Tour alumnus. He is the fifth winner this season in his 20s, joining D.J. Trahan, J.B. Holmes, Sean O'Hair and Andres Romero.

• No players managed to record all four rounds in the 60s this week. Throughout the last 15 Shell Houston Opens (dating back to 1994), just four players have performed the feat, including 1994 winner Mike Heinen, 2002 champion Vijay Singh, 2003 winner Fred Couples and 2006 victor Stuart Appleby.

• The runner-up finish by Chad Campbell is the ninth of his career on TOUR, to go along with four career titles. Geoff Ogilvy, who also has four career victories, has now posted six second-place finishes.

Mayfair

• Billy Mayfair made his 600th career start on the PGA TOUR this week. Fourteen of those starts took place at the Shell Houston Open, with his T4 finish on Sunday his best showing ever (T6 in 2001).

• While an Australian failed to win the Shell Houston Open for the first time since 2005, it doesn't mean it wasn't a productive week for the Aussies. Geoff Ogilvy led the way with a runner-up finish and was followed in the top 20 by Jason Day -- who fired a final-round 7-under 65 to finish T8 -- Steve Elkington (T14), Aaron Baddeley (T14) and Mathew Goggin (T20).

• Fred Couples, who moved into a tie for second place on the Shell Houston Open consecutive cuts list this week with 15 straight weekend appearances (Jimmy Demaret leads with 17), finished T4 for his best finish on TOUR since a T3 effort at the 2006 Masters Tournament. Speaking of cuts made, the 1992 Masters champion will be seeking a record 24th consecutive weekend appearance at the Masters Tournament next week. He is currently tied with Gary Player at the top of the list with 23 straight.

• Phil Mickelson, making just his fourth career start at the Shell Houston Open and first since 2003, finished T23. His previous best finish in Houston was a T28 in 2003.

• Four of the top seven-ranked players in the Official World Golf Rankings participated this week, including second-ranked Phil Mickelson (T23), fourth-ranked Steve Stricker (T11), fifth-ranked Adam Scott (WD) and seventh-ranked K.J. Choi (T11).

• Despite a top-25 finish by Stuart Appleby (T23), it still represented his worst finish at the Shell Houston Open in five made cuts. The eight-time PGA TOUR winner had two wins (1999, 2006) and two runner-up finishes (2003, 2007) prior to his performance this week. Dating back to his win in 1999, Appleby has posted par-or-better scores in 22 of 24 rounds (including 17 consecutive) at the Shell Houston Open.

• Billy Mayfair (66) finished the tournament with a 38-hole bogey-free streak. Other bogey-free rounds on Sunday were recorded by Fred Couples (66), Kevin Sutherland (67), Kevin Streelman (69), Padraig Harrington (68), J.J. Henry (71) and Nicholas Thompson (68).

Perez

• Pat Perez turned in the round of the day with an 8-under 64, propelling him 33 spots from T41 to T8.

• The final-round scoring average at the par-72 Redstone Golf Club's Tournament Course was 71.722, while the cumulative average for the week was 72.068. The par-4 18th hole ranked as the toughest all week with an average of 4.389, making it the fourth toughest hole on Tour this season and the toughest among finishing holes. The par-5 eighth hole was the easiest at 4.656.

• Of the four past champions of the Shell Houston Open competing this week, Fred Couples enjoyed the best week with a T4 finish, followed by Stuart Appleby's T23 effort. 2007 champion Adam Scott opened strong with a course-record-tying 9-under 63, but was forced to withdraw on Saturday morning with flu-like symptoms. 1993 champion Jim McGovern missed the cut.