Notebook: Travelers Championship, Round 4

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Scott Verplank shot a final-round 62 to tie for ninth.

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• Kenny Perry shot a final-round 63 on his way to a 22-under par 258 for the tournament to pick up his 14th career PGA TOUR victory. Perry's 258 total beats the old tournament record of 259 set by Tim Norris is 1982.

• The 258 is tied for the fourth best 72-hole score in PGA TOUR history. Only four players have recorded better 72-hole scores than Perry's 258.

• Perry's 258 is a new career-best, topping the 261 he turned in at the Colonial in 2003 and 2005.

• Perry moved into the FedExCup standings lead for the second time this season. Perry also held the FedExCup lead after the sixth and seventh weeks of the TOUR season.

• Kenny Perry's 61 in the first-round set the tournament record for lowest start by a winner. Pat Perez also had a 61 when he won the Bob Hope Classic earlier this year.

• In his career, Perry has now won two of 13 times when he has held the first-round lead and eight of 19 when he has held the second-round lead.

• With his win today, Kenny Perry moves ahead of Julius Boros for solo fourth place on the list for most TOUR wins after the age of 40:

Vijay Singh 22
Sam Snead 17
Willie Mcfarlane 15
Kenny Perry 11
Julius Boros 10

• Out of Perry's 14 career TOUR wins, he has now come-from-behind four times. He was three back entering the final-round at the 2008 Memorial Tournament and 2008 Buick Open and was one stroke back at the 1994 New England Classic. Perry was one stroke behind Paul Goydos entering the final-round of the 2009 Travelers Championship.

• No one is ever out of it at the Travelers Championship, as there have been 30 come-from-behind victories in the previous 58 years (52 percent) of the tournament, including Brad Faxon's tournament record 7 stroke come-from-behind win in 2005 (T10 entering final round). In 1986, Mac O'Grady was five strokes back and T18 before coming back to win. Below are each of the comeback victories and the number of strokes:

• Below is a chart showing the top 54-hole come-from-behind victories at the Travelers Championship:

• Billy Casper has the most comebacks in Travelers Championship history with three (1 back - 1973, 4 back - 1965 and 5 back - 1963). Hunter Mahan was 1 stroke back in 2007 before claiming his first TOUR victory.

• Peter Jacobson's 2003 victory in Hartford makes him the oldest winner in Travelers Championship history (49 years, 4 months, 23 days) and the eighth oldest winner in PGA TOUR history.

• Kenny Perry, David Toms and Tiger Woods are tied for the most top-10 (seven) finishes this year on the PGA TOUR.

David Toms picks up his third second-place finish of the year and moves into 11th on the season FedExCup standings. Prior to this year, Toms had not finished higher than second since the 2006 Ford Championship at Doral (T2).

• Paul Goydos picked up his first second-place finish since last years THE PLAYERS Championship. Goydos' 261 total is a career-best 72-hole score, besting his 265 at the 2003 Valero Texas Open. It is Goydos' third top-4 finish in his last four events.

• The 261 total for Toms matches his career-best 72 hole score from the 2006 Sony Open in Hawaii.

• Scott Verplank fired a final-round 8-under 62 to move up the leaderboard. Verplank has shot a 61 in the final-round four times in his career. His most recent 61 came at the 2001 Travelers Championship, which is tied (Brad Faxon, 2005) for the lowest final-round in tournament history.

• The par-4 15th hole measures to approximately 296 yards, depending on the location of the tees. Through 72 holes, 57 of the 386 players who have attempted to drive the green have been successful. Last year, the hole played to a 3.633 scoring average.

• The Travelers Championship is the fifth event in the six-tournament series (PLAYERS, Memorial, St. Jude, U.S. Open, Travelers, AT&T National), where the top two money-winners, not previously exempt, earn British Open exemptions. With his T2 at the Travelers Championship, Paul Goydos took over the lead for one of the two spots with $759,467 earned.

• Bubba Watson shot a 7-under 63 in the final-round to top his previous best final-round score by two strokes (65 - 2006 Sony Open in Hawaii, 2008 BMW Championship).

• In his first TOUR event as a professional, former Clemson University star Kyle Stanley shot an 11-under to finish T19.

• In his seventh event on the PGA TOUR, Luke List made his first cut and earned his first paycheck with a T63 finish. List finished T33 at the 2005 Masters as an amateur for his only other cut on TOUR. List has made one of seven cuts on the Nationwide Tour as a professional since 2007.