Arnold Palmer Invitational: Fourth-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff ORLANDO, Fla. -- Vijay Singh's victory Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard was worth 4,500 FedExCup points and $990,000. Singh now tops the PGA TOUR list in both of those categories. Singh has 11,289 FedExCup points, 125 more than Charles Howell III. His second win of the 2007 campaign pushes his season earnings to $2,637,463. Howell is in second place on the money list with $2,340,145.  Rocco Mediate rejuvenated his season with his second-place finish. (Reuters/WireImage)
• Rocco Mediate's second-place finish was his best on the PGA TOUR since he was runner-up at the 2003 Deutsche Bank Championship -- a span of 74 events. Mediate finished T9 at the Nissan Championship last month. Mediate collected $594,000 for his efforts this week. The 44-year old Pennsylvania native began the year on a Minor Medical Extension and had 10 events to earn $514,999, equaling No. 125 on the 2006 money list. Mediate has earned $750,650 this year and will play out of the Major Medical Extension category for the rest of the 2007 season. With his finish this week, he is now qualified for THE PLAYERS Championship in May. • Mediate also collected 2,700 FedExCup points, which vaulted him up 81 places in the standings to No 20 on season points list. Mediate (53/72, 73.6%) and champion Vijay Singh (52/72, 72.2%) finished 1-2 in Greens in Regulation this week. • Vaughn Taylor finished third this week falling just shy of qualifying for next week's World Golf Championships-CA Championship in Miami. Taylor needed a solo second to move into the Top-50 of the Official World Golf Rankings in order to qualify for the tournament. • Four-time champion Tiger Woods posted a back-nine, 8-over-par 43, finishing bogey/double bogey/triple bogey. The 43 matches the worst nine-hole score, both in number and relation to par, of his professional career -- an 8-over-par 43 in the second round of THE TOUR Championship in 1996 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. It is his highest closing nine-hole score as well. • Luke Donald's eighth-place finish was worth $170,500, pushing him over the $10 million mark for his career. Donald missed the cut in his two previous starts here (2002, 2003). • Sergio Garcia tied for fifth place, giving him five top-10 finishes in eight career starts in this event. • John Rollins' T5 finish was good for 913 FedExCup points. This year's Bob Hope Chrysler Classic champion remains in fourth place in the season-long race. • Sunday's final-round scoring average of 74.513 (+4.513) is the highest single-round scoring average (in relation to par) of the 2007 PGA TOUR season. It is also the highest single-round scoring average in the Arnold Palmer Invitational since 1983's second round, which had an average of 76.286 (par 71/+5.286) • Rookie Kyle Reifers, making his fifth start this year (sixth career start), put fired a final-round 70 to finish at even-par 280 and tied for 12th. Reifers, winner of the 2006 Chattanooga Classic on the Nationwide Tour, made his first career cut two weeks ago at The Honda Classic (71st). Reifers collected 550 FedExCup points. He also pocketed $121,000 this week and moved from No. 208 on the money list to No. 121. • Fellow rookie and Nationwide Tour grad Jeff Quinney is still perfect on the year, with eight cuts made in eight starts. Quinney finished T72 this week and remains No. 13 on the season-long list. • Boo Weekley earned his fourth top-20 finish of the year with his T14 effort this week. Weekley has made the cut in five of his nine starts and now stands No. 25 on the money list. • J. B. Holmes had a contrasting day Sunday. The second-year pro struggled to a 13-over-par 83. Holmes had four double bogeys and a triple bogey on the front nine and then a bogey at No. 10 put him at 15 over for the day. Holmes then turned things around and played the final eight holes at 2 under and posted nine-hole scores of 49-34. • Singh earns his 31st career victory in his 363rd event on the PGA TOUR at the age of 44 years and 24 days. His win comes in his 15th start at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, where he has made 15 cuts with six top-10s. His previous best finish was T2 in 1992, 1994 and 2005. • At the age of 44, Singh becomes the fifth player to have won the Arnold Palmer Invitational past the age of 40. They include Ben Crenshaw (41), Arnold Palmer in 1971 (41), Julius Boros in 1967 (47) and Kenny Perry in 2005 (44). Singh is the third-oldest winner of the event behind Julius Boros and Kenny Perry. • Singh now has won multiple PGA TOUR events in the same season for the eighth time in his career. With his 31st PGA TOUR victory, he is tied for 14th on the all-time win list with Harry Cooper and Jimmy Demaret. He is tied with Cooper for most wins all-time among international players. • Singh's victory gives him wins in 23 different PGA TOUR events, and he owns four victories in the state of Florida (Chrysler Championship, The Honda Classic, FUNAI Classic, Arnold Palmer Invitational). • His 19 wins since turning 40 are the most by a player over the age of 40; Sam Snead had 17. This was also his 53 career professional victory worldwide and his 13th come-from-behind victory when trailing entering the final round. • K. J. Choi withdrew prior to the start of the final round due to a back injury. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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