World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions: Round 4 notebook

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Here is a look at the final World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions leaderboard and where each player is currently ranked in the Official World Golf Ranking:

HSBC Champions 54-hole leaders who went on to win:
• 2009: Phil Mickelson led Tiger Woods and Nick Watney by two shots; in the final round, Mickelson shot 69 to win by one over Ernie Els.

• 2007: Phil Mickelson led Ross Fisher by 2 shots; in the final round, Mickelson shot 76 and then won a playoff over Fisher and Lee Westwood

• 2005: David Howell led Tiger Woods by 1 shot; in the final round, Howell shot 68 to win by 3 over Woods

Phil Mickelson
• Career International Victories (3):
1993 Perrier Open [Eur]. 2007 HSBC Champions [Eur]. 2009 HSBC Champions [Eur].

• Earns $1.2 million for his victory.

• Lone player this week to post four rounds in the 60s (69-66-67-69- 271).

• Four worldwide victories in 2009 -- Northern Trust Open, World Golf Championships-CA Championship, THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola, World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions -- putting his career worldwide professional total at 40.

• Mickelson has 37 career PGA TOUR wins, including three official events in 2009 (Northern Trust Open, World Golf Championships-CA Championship, THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola). Mickelson also finished runner-up to Tiger Woods in the 2009 FedExCup competition.

• First two-time winner of the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions tournament.

• Mickelson has bested Tiger Woods four of the last five times they have been paired together.

• One of only two players (Tiger Woods) to post top-10s in three of the four 2009 World Golf Championship events.

• Including his win at the 2009 World Golf Championships-CA Championship, becomes just the fourth player to win multiple World Golf Championships events, joining Tiger Woods (15) and Darren Clarke (2) and Geoff Ogilvy (3).

• Joins Woods as only player to win multiple WGC events in the same season; Woods has accomplished the feat five times (1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007).

• The last time Mickelson held/shared a 54-hole lead and did not go on to win was at the 2008 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational. He was tied with Lee Westwood and Vijay Singh after 54 holes, but shot 70 on Sunday to finish T4.

Tiger Woods
• Woods has two runners-up (2005, 2006) and a T6 (2009) in three career starts at the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions event.

• While this week's HSBC Champions event is considered "unofficial" on the PGA TOUR, Woods added a top-10 to his World Golf Championships resume and now has has 16 wins and 28 top-10 finishes in 31 World Golf Championships starts.

• One of only two players (Phil Mickelson) to post top-10s in three of the four 2009 World Golf Championship events.

Daisuke Maruyama
• Maruyama set the Sheshan International Golf Club course record (later tied by Ernie Els and Rory McIlroy) on Sunday, carding a 9-under-par 63, jumping from 32nd to T10 in the process.

Ernie Els
• Searching for his first win of the calendar year, Els was 10-under-par on the day holding a 1-stroke lead over Phil Mickelson before his second shot on the par-5 18th found the water hazard. Despite a bogey on the last, Els' 63 still tied the course record set earlier in the day by Daisuke Maruyama and matched by Rory McIlroy.

• Els has one career World Golf Championships title, the 2004 World Golf Championships-American Express Championship.

Rory McIlroy
• The 20-year-old McIlroy (4) reeled off five straight birdies (Nos. 4-8) en route to a front-nine 30 on Sunday. He totaled seven birdies on the front nine and finished with a course-tying 63 (set earlier by Daisuke Maruyama and matched by Ernie Els).

• McIlroy compiled two top-10s in four WGC starts in 2009. In addition to his fourth this week, he finished T5 at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship.

Ryan Moore
• Ryan Moore finished third in his World Golf Championships debut this week at the HSBC Champions. Moore qualified by winning the Wyndham Championship, the final event in the PGA TOUR Regular Season.

Miscellaneous
• Paul Casey withdrew during the final round due to a rib injury. He will receive last place unofficial money.

• Six players in the field have participated in all four of the previous HSBC Champions: Paul Casey, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Padraig Harrington, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson and Lian-Wei Zhang.

• Geoff Ogilvy, winner of three World Golf Championship titles, rebounded from a 72-74 start, posting rounds of 65-67 on the weekend to finish T10.

• After carding just one birdie and one eagle in the first three rounds, Thomas Levet recorded seven birdies en route to a bogey-free 65 to finish T57.