FBR Open: Final-Round Notes  PGA TOUR Media Officials SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- This was a great week for players with ties to the Phoenix area. Winner Aaron Baddeley (-21) lives in Scottsdale, while Jeff Quinney (-20/3rd) lives in Scottsdale and attended Arizona State University. Billy Mayfair (-17/5th) lives at the TPC Scottsdale and attended Arizona State University, while Robert Garrigus (-13/T11) lives in Scottsdale and plays out of TPC Scottsdale. • With his runner-up finish at the FBR Open, John Rollins takes over the top spot in the FedExCup points standings. It marks the third different leader on the FedExCup standings since the start of the season.  Vijay Singh has an impressive record in Scottsdale. (Marc Feldman/WireImage)
• Rollins has 5,872 points to lead Vijay Singh by 314 points (5,558). Charles Howell III is third with 5,152, FBR Champion Aaron Baddeley is fourth with 4,639 points and Charley Hoffman is fifth with 4,564. Howell and Rollins are the only players among the top seven not to win a tournament yet this year, but both have two runner-up finishes. The other five players have accounted for wins in each of the first five weeks of the season. • John Rollins, who finished T2, recorded his second runner-up finish of the season and his fourth of his career. Two weeks ago he lost in a playoff to Charley Hoffman at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. • Bart Bryant has posted back-to-back top-10s with his fourth-place finish. Last week at the Buick Invitational, he finished T7. The only other time in his career he has had back-to-back top-10s was when he won the final tournament of the 2005 season, THE TOUR Championship, and then finished ninth at the 2006 Mercedes-Benz Championship to open the next season. • Local favorite Billy Mayfair, who jumped 125 points up the FedExCup standing points list, posted his first top-10 of the 2007 season and his fourth in Phoenix with his fifth-place finish. It is his first top-10 since he finished T7 at the 2006 John Deere Classic, and is his best effort since finishing T3 behind winner Aaron Baddeley at the 2006 Verizon Heritage last April. • Heath Slocum finished sixth to collect his second top-10 of the season. In his last start at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic two weeks ago, he finished T4. He had never posted back-to-back top-10s since joining the TOUR in 2002. • Vijay Singh finished seventh to collect his fifth top-10 at the TPC Scottsdale, including two victories (1995, 2003) thanks to a closing 8-under 64 on Sunday. He receives $201,000 and moves from third to second on the FBR Open career money list, just $17,030 short of tournament money-leader Phil Mickelson ($1,807,813). • David Toms finished tied for eighth at the FBR Open thanks to four rounds in the 60s. It is his sixth consecutive top-20 finish in at the TPC Scottsdale. His best effort was a T4 in 2005. • Heath Slocum aced the par-3, 14th hole this week when he holed a 7-iron from 179 yards. It was the first hole-in-one recorded at the TPC Scottsdale since the 2003 season, when Bob Burns and Tim Herron recorded aces at the fourth hole. It is Slocum's first career hole-in-one on the PGA TOUR, the 18th hole-in-one at the TPC Scottsdale and the seventh at the fourth hole. • Bubba Watson finished tied for eighth in Phoenix for his second consecutive top-10 of the season after finishing T4 last week at the Buick Invitational. It is his fifth career top-10. • John Rollins and Aaron Baddeley become the third and fourth player to surpass a $1 million in 2007, joining Vijay Singh and Charles Howell III. • Jeff Quinney, who finished third, posted his third consecutive top-10 of the season and joins Robert Allenby for the most top-10s in 2007 with three each. • In his first career PGA TOUR start, Alejandro Canizares, who attended Arizona State University, finished T23 with his 9-under 274 total and collected $48,200. Last spring he became the fourth Sun Devil to earn All-America honors all four years, joining Todd Demsey (1992-95), Phil Mickelson (1989-92) and Billy Mayfair (1985-88). • Players who were bogey-free on Sunday were John Rollins (63), Billy Mayfair (65), Parker McLachlin (65), Eric Axley (66) and Fred Funk (67). Aaron Baddeley played the last 40 holes with only one bogey. He bogeyed the par-4 14th hole in the final round. • Steve Lowery withdrew after completing eight holes Sunday due to a wrist injury. • With his victory, Aaron Baddeley is the only player to move into the top 10 (Robert Allenby falls from 9th to 13th) in the FedExCup standings this week at the conclusion of the FBR Open. He collected 4,500 points to move from 20th to fourth. • The win is Baddeley's second career PGA TOUR victory, and comes in his 123rd career start on the PGA TOUR (9 amateur, 114 professional) at the age of 25 years, 10 months and 18 days. He also won the 2006 Verizon Heritage last April. • Baddeley earned 4,500 FedExCup points for the victory, which gives him a total of 4,692 points and moves him up from No. 90 to No. 4 in the season-long points race after five events. • The victory also earned Baddeley a two-year exemption on the PGA TOUR that will take him through the 2009 season. He also has exemption into the several invitational tournaments in 2007, most notable THE PLAYERS Championship, PGA Championship, World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational and the 2008 Mercedes Benz Championships in Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii. • The victory comes in Baddeley's fifth start at the FBR Open. He missed the cut in 2003, 2005 and 2006. His best finish here had been a T49 in 2004. • He also becomes the fourth international player to win the FBR Open since the tournament moved to TPC Scottsdale in 1987. He joins Sandy Lyle (1988), Vijay Singh (1995, 2003) and Jesper Parnevik (1998) in that category. • Baddeley also becomes the first player in his 20s to win on the PGA TOUR in 2007. Of the four previous winners, two were in their 30s (Charley Hoffman and Tiger Woods) and two were in their 40s (Vijay Singh and Paul Goydos). • This is his first top-10 finish in three starts on the 2007 PGA TOUR. And his $1,080,000 first-place check, the largest of his career, puts him over the $1 million mark for the third time in his career (2005, 2006). His career total is now $5,317,377. • Baddeley is the third former Nationwide Tour player to win this event (Tom Lehman, 2000; Chris DiMarco, 2002). And he is the third former Nationwide Tour player to win this season (Paul Goydos/Sony Open in Hawaii; Charley Hoffman/Bob Hope Chrysler Classic). This victory marks 199th PGA TOUR win by a former Nationwide Tour player since 1990. • Baddeley had played in 120 PGA TOUR events coming into the 2007 season and made the cut 66 times. With the victory today, he now has two wins and 22 top-25 finishes, and he has won twice in his last 21 starts dating back to the 2006 Verizon Heritage. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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