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• Jim Furyk's victory last week at the Canadian Open was the 209th by a former Nationwide Tour player on the PGA TOUR.

• The last two winners on the Nationwide Tour --Tom Scherrer and Roland Thatcher?were a combined 50-under in winning their titles.

• More on Thatcher: He leads the money list by $100,249 over Jason Day. That's the largest margin in the season's first 20 weeks in Tour history.

• More on Day: He'd like to take the front nine at Champions Run, the site of last week's Cox Classic, with him everywhere he goes. Over the last two days of the tournament, Day posted nines of 28 and 29 on that side. In shooting 57 for those 18 holes, Day had two eagles, nine birdies and seven pars.

Tyler Williamson (WireImage)

The last five champions of the event?Tyler Williamson, Jeff Klauk, Bradley Hughes, Joe Daley and Kevin Johnson?will be in Wichita this week for the 17th playing of this tournament first won by Tom Lehman in 1990. Ben Bates, the 1997 champion, is also playing this week.

• Paul Claxton, currently No. 3 on the Nationwide Tour money list, has a scoring average of 69.73 over the course of his career at the Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open. This will be Claxton's seventh trip to Wichita, where he has only missed the cut once. Claxton had the Nationwide Tour money lead until last week, when both Roland Thatcher and Jason Day passed him. This season, Claxton won the Melwood Prince George's County Open and was the runner-up at the Chitimacha Louisiana Open and the Peek'n Peak Classic.

• Daniel Summerhays will make his second start as a professional this week after tying for 37th at last week's Cox Classic. Summerhays etched his name in the record books by becoming the Tour's first amateur winner when he won the Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational.

• Jason Day came close to winning last week at the Cox Classic, eventually falling a stroke short of Roland Thatcher. Day became the youngest winner in Nationwide Tour history with his win at the Legend Financial Group Classic. Day was 19 years, 7 months, 26 days. Day fired rounds of 62-63 in the final two rounds of the Cox Classic to tie the Nationwide Tour record for lowest consecutive 36 holes, a record held by Jeff Freeman (2001), Jason Gore (2002) and David Branshaw (2002). Day eventually settled for second in Omaha.

• Chez Reavie has spent most of his life in Arizona, but the winner of the Knoxville Open presented by Food City was born in Wichita, KS, home of the Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open. The 25-year-old Reavie is No. 8 on the money list and has four top-10 finishes this year. In 2006, Reavie tied for 14th in Wichita, with three of his four rounds in the 60s.

• The past five tournaments have been decided by either one stroke or a playoff, including Kevin Johnson's one-stroke win a year ago over Matt Kuchar. There have been five playoffs in tournament history, with the last coming in 2005 when Joe Daley won a one-hole extra session over Shane Bertsch.