Notes: Scrambling ability fuels O'Hair's win

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O'Hair

• Sean O'Hair won this week's PODS Championship thanks in large part to the improvement of his scrambling ability. O'Hair, who ranked 165th on the PGA TOUR in scrambling coming into the week, scrambled successfully 75 percent of the time in 24 scrambling opportunities, ranking him 4th in the field. The 78 percent success rate is the best showing by O'Hair on the PGA TOUR with at least 24 scrambling attempts. His previous best had been a 70 percent scrambling effort on 27 missed greens at the 2005 Ford Championship at Doral.

• Sean O'Hair converted a putt from 32'1" on his 69th hole of play at the PODS Championship to take a one stroke lead and sent him on his way to a two stroke victory. O'Hair is the 14th champion on the PGA TOUR to make a putt at least this long this late in the tournament. The last occurrence came at last year's Wyndham Championship, when Brandt Snedeker made a putt of 32'2" on his 71st hole of play, helping Snedeker earn a two stroke victory over Tim Petrovic, Jeff Overton and just as today Billy Mayfair.

Cink

• With today's loss at the PODS Championship, Stewart Cink is now 1-for-9 on the PGA TOUR, an 11 percent winning percentage, when holding the lead heading into the final round of a TOUR event. Cink is now tied with Mike Weir in winning percentage when heading into the final round atop the leader board. Weir is also 1-for-9. Over the past 25 year, only two players are worse that Cink and Weir in this category; Jeff Maggert is 1-10 while Larry Mize is sporting the golden sombrero at 0-9.

• In today's closing round of the PODS Championship, the par-4, 465-yard 6th hole did not give up a single score under-par while playing the second hardest on the course. It's the second time on the PGA TOUR this year in a full field TOUR event where a hole not ranking the hardest on the course in a round did not yield a single score under-par. Earlier this year during the final round at the Buick Invitational, the 227-yard, par-3 16th hole at Torrey Pines did not give up a score under-par while playing the third hardest on the course with a 3.424 scoring average.