Third-round notebook – Children's Miracle Network Classic
* Scott Verplank has a streak of 14 straight rounds at par or better dating back to the first-round at the BMW Championship in September. The current leader in rounds at par or better is Steve Marino at 17, who is tied with Verplank at 19-under-par.* Verplank has now made 13 consecutive cuts at the Children’s Miracle Network Classic which is the longest active streak for the Tournament.
* Verplank has been at par or better at the Disney event since 2004, a streak of 18 straight rounds. Verplank only has five rounds over-par in the 53 career rounds at the Children’s Miracle Network Classic.
* Steve Marino’s three-round total of 65-66-66–197 is the lowest 54-hole total of his PGA Tour career. This is the first time that Marino has held or shared the 54-hole lead.
* Marino is bogey-free thru 54 holes this week. The last player to go bogey-free and win a Tournament was Lee Trevino in 1974 (Greater New Orleans Open). The last player to go bogey free and not win a Tournament was Bubba Watson at the 2006 Chrysler Classic of Tucson where he finished T3.
* Marino is looking for his first PGA Tour victory in his 65th career start. Marino has tallied 49 cuts (counting this event), 22 top-25 finishes and nine top-10 finishes. His best career finish (2) came this year at the Mayakoba Golf Classic. He has gone 58-holes without a bogey going back to the 14th hole of the final round of the Ginn sur Mer Classic.
* In his 16th appearance at the Children’s Miracle Network Classic presented by Wal-Mart, Davis Love III shot an 8-under-par 64 to move from T19 to T3. Love has six top-10 finishes in his career at this event, trailing Larry Nelson and Payne Stewart’s seven top-10 finishes for the most in Tournament history. All six of Love’s top-10s have been inside the top 5 -- the most of any player.
* In 60 rounds at this event, Love has a 68.51 scoring average. Love now has 14 consecutive rounds in the 60s at this event which is the longest active streak and matches the Tournament’s all-time record streak at 14 held by Tiger Woods.
* Love’s $1,127,950.34 in career winnings at Disney is the 3rd highest behind Tiger Woods ($1,542,166.67) and Vijay Singh ($1,525,303.57).
* Love’s three-round total of 66-69-64-199 is his best 54-hole start since the opening three rounds of the 2004 Sony Open in Hawaii where he opened 70-65-63-198. The 64 is his lowest round on Tour since a third-round 64 at this event in 2006 where Love finished T5. Love has gone 39 holes without a bogey and played his second and third rounds bogey-free.
* Scott Sterling opened the Tournament with a 2-under-par 70, but second and third rounds of 63-66 have moved him to T3. Sterling, who is currently No. 153 on the money list, will need another solid round to have a chance to move into the top 125 and retain his PGA Tour card for the 2009 season. The 63 was the lowest round of Sterling’s PGA Tour career.
* Erik Compton, playing on a sponsor exemption, is five months removed from his second heart transplant. Compton last played in a PGA Tour event in 2005 with a T44 at the Ford Championship at Doral. Coming into this event, Compton had played in 11 PGA Tour events since 2000, making the cut five times.
* Compton played in his first PGA Tour event as an amateur in 2000. Compton birdied on his final two holes on Saturday to shoot 72 on the day and finish at 6-under-par for the Tournament (T49).
* Fall Series – a top-30 finish on the season-ending money list earns invitations to the following year’s Masters and the U.S. Open. In addition, a top-70 finish on the money list will yield trips to several significant invitationals, including the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Memorial Tournament. 2007 Turning Stone Resort Championship winner Steve Flesch is a perfect example of the advantages of playing well in the Fall Series. He used his $1,080,000 first-place paycheck for winning at Turning Stone to move all the way from No. 70 on the official money list to No. 25 (he finished the season No. 26) to earn exemptions into the Masters and the U.S. Open. Flesch was on the Masters leaderboard all week until fading on the back nine on Sunday, but still finished T5 to earn an invite to Augusta in 2009.
* Jeff Overton, who is currently No. 125 on the money list fell to T30 after the third round at 10-under-par. Overton underwent an appendectomy on October 21 and finished T18 a week later at the Ginn sur Mer Classic to move from No. 126 to No. 125 on the money list. Two days prior to the surgery Overton was at No. 122 on the money list following his T69 at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
Below is a current look at those near the bubble of No. 125 on the PGA Tour Money List:
Pos Name Money Earned 54-hole Score Current Position
120 Brad Adamonis 862,413 MC MC
121 Tim Petrovic 856,611 -14 T8
122 Nick Watney 855,853 -6 T49
123 Michael Allen 847,863 -11 T24
124 Shane Bertsch 841,248 MC MC
125 Jeff Overton 840,809 -10 T30
126 Martin Laird 803,072 -12 T16
127 Charles Warren 800,694 MC MC
129 Patrick Sheehan 795,329 -4 T61
131 Bob Tway 775,072 -6 T49
132 Jay Williamson 758,862 MC MC
133 Matt Jones 758,589 -10 T30
135 Bob Estes 727,429 -12 T16
136 Jason Gore 710,664 -14 T8
137 James Driscoll 708,549 MC MC
138 Jason Day 698,393 -8 T40
139 Rich Beem 696,363 -12 T16
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