AT&T National: Final-round notebook

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BETHESDA, Md. -- Tiger Woods won the 2009 AT&T National with a tournament record 13-under 267 bettering Anthony Kim's 268 total from last year. Woods won by a stroke over Hunter Mahan who finished almost two hours ahead of Woods with a final-round 62.

• Tiger Woods won for the 68th time in 245 starts on the PGA TOUR -- that's a 27.75 percent success rate. He is now five behind Jack Nicklaus (73) in career victories. Sam Snead leads with 82 career wins.

• Woods' win at the AT&T National marks the 25th different official TOUR event he has won. Woods has posted multiple victories at 16 official TOUR events.

• Woods has now won 46 of 49 tournaments (94%) when leading/co-leading after 54-holes. The three he didn't win -- 1996 Quad City Open/T5, 2000/2004 THE TOUR Championship/2ndboth times.

• Woods has won 32 of 38 tournaments after holding the 36-hole lead/co-lead -- that's 84 percent.

• This is the 18 time in 27 events this season where the 54-hole leader/co-leader has gone on to victory.

• Woods became just the second player to win an official TOUR event as host. Jack Nicklaus won the Memorial Tournament as host in 1977 and 1984. Arnold Palmer won the 1971 Florida Citrus Open Invitational at Rio Pinar CC. Palmer began hosting the event when it moved to the Bay Hill Club and Lodge in 1979. That event is now known as the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard.

• Woods grabbed the No. 1 spot on the FedExCup standings for the first time this season, becoming the first player to top 2,000 points this season. Woods has 2051 points and a 177 point lead over Kenny Perry (1874). Zach Johnson is third at 1662. Hunter Mahan jumped nine spots into 14th position.

• This marked the 17th time Anthony Kim and Woods have competed in the same stroke play event on the TOUR. It also marks the 17th time Woods has finished ahead of Kim in those 17 events.

• Hunter Mahan equaled Kim's course and tournament 18-hole record (2009/Round 1) with a final-round 62.

• Mahan has been trending upwards lately. Here's a look at his results since THE PLAYERS Championship.

• Hunter Mahan has not missed a cut (22 consecutive) since last years PGA Championship. Before his second-place at the AT&T National his previous best finish since the PGA Championship was T4 at last week's Travelers Championship.

Here's a look at Hunter Mahan's results at the AT&T National:

• Mahan jumped from No. 16 to No. 12 on The Presidents Cup standings.

• The AT&T National is the sixth event in a six-tournament series (PLAYERS, Memorial, St. Jude, U.S. Open, Travelers, AT&T National), where the top two money-winners, not previously exempt, earn 2009 British Open exemptions. Bryce Molder ($856,100) and Paul Goydos ($772,427) earned those exemptions.

• Brandt Snedeker, the 2007 Wyndham Championship winner, advanced from No. 183 to No. 130 on the money-list with his $228,000 for finishing T5. Snedeker also earned a spot in the British Open in two weeks time by finishing as the leading player, not otherwise exempt, who finished among the top-5 this week.

• Danny Lee (68-67-69) finished T7 in his seventh TOUR event as a professional and now has earnings of $350,054. The New Zealand rookie needs to earn the equivalent of $537,958 (150thon 2008 money-list) to earn temporary membership and receive unlimited invitations. Lee's top-10 earns a start in next week's John Deere Classic. He has confirmed starts at the Buick Open, the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and a possible start at the Wyndham Championship where he finished T20 last year as an amateur.

• Lucas Glover (69-66-68-70), the U.S. Open champion, finished T5 to continue his good stretch of play. After his major victory, Glover finished T11 at the Travelers Championship last week, where he shot three 65s.

• Vijay Singh (T7) shot 66 in the final round, including 30 on the front nine, to post his third top-10 this year. In Singh's first eight stroke play events this season he recorded just two rounds in the 60s. In his last seven events Singh has shot in the 60s 13 times.

• Jim Furyk finished T7 to earn his third consecutive top-10 finish at the AT&T National -- T3 in both 2007-08.

• Cameron Beckman came to the final hole needing a birdie to jump into a tie for fourth and guarantee a spot in the 2009 British Open. Beckman made a bogey at No. 18 and finished T7.

• After posting 14 top-25s in 2008, Stuart Appleby notched his second top-25 this season (T16/AT&T National, T8/Transitions Championship). Appleby is 28th in The Presidents Cup rankings for the International team. He missed the first two Presidents Cup matches but has made the previous five teams.

• Fred Couples, the U.S. Presidents Cup captain, won at Congressional CC 26 years ago in the 1983 Kemper Open. Couples finished T11 for his fourth top-25 of the season, including T3s at the Northern Trust Open and the Shell Houston Open.

• Michael Allen (67-69-65-74) didn't make a single birdie in the final round but he did hole a 143-yard shot for eagle at the par-5 9th hole. It was the only eagle posted in the final round.

• Daniel Chopra (66-68-72-71) finished T20 at 3-under. He played the front nine 10-under for the week.

• Matt Hill, who won the NCAA golf championship in May, along with the Jack Nicklaus Award, finished T70 in his first TOUR event. He was the only amateur in the field of 120 players. The Canadian native, who is a sophomore at North Carolina State University, shot 71-69-75-75?290, failing to record a birdie in the final round.

• Marc Turnesa shot a bogey-free final round 68 to improve on Saturday's third round 80 by 12 strokes. His was the only bogey-free round of the day.

• No. 18 was the Kodak Challenge hole this week and ranked as the 7th most-difficult for the tournament. The cumulative scoring average for No. 18 was 4.129. Chris DiMarco maintains the Kodak Challenge lead at 9-under.