Round 4 Notes – Target World Challenge
For his win today, Tiger Woods collected a first-place check worth $1.35M. As he has done every year in this event, Woods announced that he is donating all of his earnings to the Tiger Woods Foundation. In nine years of the Target World Challenge, Woods has now earned $6,947,500 and all of that money has been donated to his foundation.
Though this event is not an official PGA TOUR event, it will go into the books as one of several tournaments where Woods has recorded multiple victories:
6 wins - World Golf Championship-CA Championship
5 wins - World Golf Championship Bridgestone Invitational
5 wins - Buick Invitational
4 wins - Masters Tournament
4 wins - Bay Hill Invitational
4 wins - PGA Championship
4 wins - Target World Challenge
Tiger Woods becomes the fourth third-round leader/co-leader to go on and win this event in the first nine years:
1999 - Tom Lehman - tied with Duval - shot 67 - won by 3
2002 - Padraig Harrington - led by 6 - shot 71 - won by 2
2003 - Davis Love III - led by 3 - shot 72 - won by 2
2007 - Tiger Woods - led by 6 - shot 68 - won by 7
Tiger Woods’ winning score of 22-under-par 266 tied the tournament record set by Davis Love III when he won here in 2000. Love carded rounds of 67-64-71-64 in capturing the title.
Rory Sabbatini withdrew prior to the start of the final round due to personal reasons. Sabbatini is the first player in tournament history not to complete 72 holes. Sabbatini collected last-place money of $170,000.
As a result of Rory Sabbatini’s withdrawl this morning, Brett Wetterich played as a single. Wetterich shot a 3-under-par 69, his best round of the week, and completed his round in 2:22.
Colin Montgomerie continued his rebound from an opening-day 80, closing with a 6-under 66 today. Montgomerie birdied his final two holes today to finish at 6-under 282 for the week. After not posting a single birdie on Thursday, Montgomerie had 18 birdies and two eagles over his final three days. Montgomerie posted rounds of 67-69-66, 14-under par, for the final 54 holes.
Colin Montgomerie became the first player in tournament history to post three rounds in the 60s and one round in the 80s.
Here is how Tiger Woods has fared in the Target World Challenge over the first nine years:
1999 - 10th - 65-70-71-76—282
2000 - 2nd - 68-64-67-69—268
2001 - 1st - 68-67-74-64—273
2002 - 2nd - 68-65-70-67—270
2003 - 2nd - 71-71-72-65—279
2004 - 1st - 67-66-69-66—268
2005 - T14 - 72-72-69-73—286
2006 - 1st - 68-68-70-66—272
2007 - 1st - 69-62-67-68—266
Fred Couples had three eagles, all on par-5s, this week. Couples eagled the 531-yard, 2nd hole in the first and second rounds and then added a third eagle at the 537-yard, 16th hole during today’s final round.
Tiger Woods owned a six-stroke lead heading into Sunday’s final round. Woods has held/shared a third-round lead 44 times on the PGA TOUR (official events only) and has gone on to win 41 times. The three events he did not hold the lead and win:
1996 Quad City Classic - led by 1 - shot 72 - T5, 4 back
2000 Tour Championship - tied with Singh - shot 69 - 2nd, 2 back
2004 Tour Championship - tied w/ J. Haas - shot 72 - 2nd, 4 back
Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk and Zach Johnson each posted their first three rounds in the 60s this week. Woods and Johnson carded rounds in the 60s today. Only five players had previously managed to shoot four rounds in a single year:
2007 Tiger Woods - 69-62-67-68—266 - -22 - won
2007 Zach Johnson - 69-67-69-69—273 - -15 - 2nd
2004 Tiger Woods - 67-66-69-66—268 -16 - won
2004 Padraig Harrington - 68-69-67-66—270 - -14 - 2nd
2004 Jay Haas - 69-66-67-69—271 - -13 - T3
2000 Tiger Woods - 68-64-67-69—268 - -20 - 2nd
1999 Tom Lehman - 68-65-67-67—267 - -13 - won
Best rounds of the day:
66 - Colin Montgomerie, Lee Westwood
68 - Tiger Woods, Zach Johnson
Scoring average for this week:
Round - Front 9 - Back 9- Total
Thursday - 36.191 - 35.502 - 71.693
Friday - 35.439 - 33.941 - 69.380
Saturday - 35.878 - 35.125 - 71.003
Sunday - 35.532 - 34.868 - 70.400
Cumulative - 35.764 - 34.856 - 70.620
The easiest hole all week was the 522-yard, 11th hole. The par-5 did not see a single over-par score recorded there in four days. For the week, there were 3 eagles, 32 birdies and 28 pars – resulting in a scoring average of 4.397.
Here is how the five first-time players are fared in this event:
14. - Brett Wetterich - 73-73-75-69—290 - +2
5. - Steve Stricker - 72-69-69-70—279 - -9
Wd - Rory Sabbatini - 69-81-76-WD
13. - Niclas Fasth - 72-72-73-71—288 - Even
2. - Zach Johnson - 69-67-69-68—273 - -15
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