Mayakoba Golf Classic: Round 4 Notebook

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2008 Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya
(The ninth of 37 events in the PGA TOUR Regular Season)
Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico February 21-14, 2008
FedExCup Points: 12,500 Purse: $6,200,000
El Camaleon Golf Club at Mayakoba Par/Yards: 35-35--70/6,923

• Brian Gay's victory was his first on the PGA TOUR in 293 starts as a professional. Below is a list of active PGA TOUR players without a victory:

• In his 16th professional start on the PGA TOUR, Nick Flanagan posted his first career top-10. A three-time Nationwide Tour winner last year, Flanagan was aided by a final-round 6-under-par 64, the low round of the day, to jump from T31 to T9. After one round, Flanagan was T114 after an opening 75.

• Chris Stroud (T12) led the field with two eagles. The champion Brian Gay led the field with 23 birdies, followed by Tim Petrovic's 20 (T7).

• Four players posted four rounds in the 60s: Brian Gay (1), Steve Marino (2), Matt Kuchar (T3) and John Merrick (T3).

• Mexico native Esteban Toledo (11) just missed recording his first top-10 since a T9 at the 2003 Bank of America Colonial.

• After finishing eighth last year at the Mayakoba Golf Classic for his first career top-10, Steve Marino bettered that with a career-best runner-up finish. Marino went bogey-free on the weekend and currently has a streak of 42 consecutive holes without a miscue.

• Brian Gay's largest lead of the day was six strokes over Marino after his second consecutive birdie of the day on No. 8.

• Defending champion Fred Funk finished T63.

• Roland Thatcher's T9 was his third career top-10 in 57 starts on the PGA TOUR. Thatcher made the cut on the number at 4-over-par and posted rounds of 61-68 on the weekend.