Notes: Viking Classic, Rd. 4

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• Will MacKenzie birdied four out of the last six holes to record a 4-under 68 on Sunday and then birdied the first two playoff holes to outlast Marc Turnesa (70) and Brian Gay (68) in a two-hole playoff to capture the Viking Classic. Gay dropped out after the first extra hole, and then third-round leader Turnesa was eliminated when MacKenzie birdied the par-5 18th hole.

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Brian Gay finished third behind champion Will MacKenzie after falling out on the first playoff hole.

• MacKenzie collected $648,000 with the win, moving from No. 178 on the money list all the way to No. 97, with $883,997. The win is worth a two-year exemption on the PGA TOUR.

• Just one day after calling a two-stroke penalty on himself for moving a loose impediment inside a hazard on the par-5 18th hole -- leading to a triple bogey -- MacKenzie actually birdied the hole three times on Sunday -- once at the end of regulation and then twice in the playoff.

• MacKenzie's playoff win marks the 10th playoff of the 2008 season, and the first since Vijay Singh defeated Sergio Garcia and Kevin Sutherland at The Barclays. There have been four playoffs since the Viking Classic became an official PGA TOUR event in 1994, including wins by Brian Henninger in 1994, Steve Lowery in 2000, D.J. Trahan in 2006 and MacKenzie in 2008.

• 2008 Viking Classic runner-up and TOUR rookie Marc Turnesa has ties to the Ryder Cup, with his great-uncles Joe (1927, 1929) and Jim (1953) participating in the event. His runner-up finish was a career-best outing on the PGA TOUR, topping his T22 finish at the 2008 Northern Trust Open. He collected $316,800 for his efforts, moving to No. 130 on the official money list.

• The runner-up finish for Brian Gay is the third of his career, to go along with second-place finishes at the 2001 MasterCard Colonial and the 2002 Buick Open.

• With Will MacKenzie's win on Sunday, the winner of the Viking Classic has come out of the last group in 10 out of the last 11 years, with Chad Campbell (2007) the only player to win from outside of the final group during that time span.

• With top-10 finishes this week, Steve Allan (T4), Casey Wittenberg (T4) and Dicky Pride (T8) played their way into the Turning Stone Resort Championship in two weeks.

• Champion Will MacKenzie entered today's final round sporting a 72.67 final-round scoring average this season. He was much better than that at the Viking Classic, with a final-round 68.

• Like Will MacKenzie, Bill Haas also posted a good finish this week (T4) despite calling a two-stroke penalty on himself for breaching the one-ball rule on No. 16 during the second round. Two of Haas' seven career top-10 finishes on the PGA TOUR have now come at the Viking Classic. Making his second start at the Viking Classic, Haas finished T4 this week, just one year after posting a T3 finish at Annandale.

With MacKenzie's come-from-behind win on Sunday, the third-round leader has won 21 of 40 stroke-play events on the PGA TOUR in 2008.

• Six players posted all four rounds in the 60s this week at the Viking Classic, including Brian Gay, Bill Haas, Casey Wittenberg, Greg Kraft, Brad Elder and Woody Austin.

• Tom Scherrer's 13th-place finish is his first top-25 effort on the PGA TOUR since a T16 finish at the 2003 84 Lumber Classic of Pennsylvania.

• David Toms, making his first start at the Viking Classic since 1998, posted a 6-under 66 on Sunday to finish T8. It is his first top-10 finish of the season. The last time Toms failed to crack the top 10 in a season was in 1994.

• Nationwide Tour member Casey Wittenberg, who played this week on a sponsor's exemption, posted a 3-under 69 on Sunday to finish a career-best T4. His previous best effort on TOUR (in 25 career starts) was a T13 finish at the 2004 Masters Tournament when he was playing as an amateur. Wittenberg is currently well inside the top 25 on the Nationwide Tour's official money list, and all but guaranteed of earning a PGA TOUR card for the 2009 season.

• Casey Wittenberg, who lost to Nick Flanagan in the 2003 U.S. Amateur Championship, was hoping to become the first player to receive a sponsor's exemption and go on to win since Jason Gore did so at the 2005 84 LUMBER Classic. Speaking of Gore, he equaled David Toms and Steve Allan with Sunday's best round, his 6-under 66 helping him finish T8.

• Of the eight past champions of the Viking Classic who participated this week, 1993 winner Greg Kraft (unofficial winner) had the best showing with a seventh-place finish. The others to make the cut included Cameron Beckman (T40), John Huston (T45) and Heath Slocum (T56).

• Sunday's even-par 72 snaps a streak of 15 consecutive under-par rounds for Bo Van Pelt at the Viking Classic, dating back to 2005. With a T22 finish this week, he also sees his streak of consecutive top-10 finishes here come to an end (T8 in 2007, T5 in 2005 & 2006).

• David Duval finished T22 this week for his first top-25 finish since the 2006 U.S. Open (T16) -- a span of 31 starts in between top-25 finishes.

• David Duval posted a 1-under 71 on Sunday in his attempt to post all four rounds in the 60s this week (69-69-68-71). The last time Duval had four rounds in the 60s in a 72-hole event was the 2001 Buick Challenge.

• In his first start since finishing T50 at the Wyndham Championship, John Daly posted a T40 finish this week -- giving him consecutive made cuts for just the second time this season. Earlier this season he finished T75 at the Northern Trust Open and T60 at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.

• Bogey-free rounds on Sunday were turned in by Todd Hamilton (69), Garrett Willis (67), Todd Demsey (70) and Chad Collins (67), bringing the total for the week to 34.

• James Driscoll had a hole-in-one on the 204-yard second hole with a 5-iron. It is the 24th ace of the season and the second this week. Dicky Pride aced the same hole on Friday.