Round 4 Notebook: U.S. Bank Championship  • Today's weather: partly cloudy and warmer; afternoon high of 76; winds SSE 5-10 mph  Richard Johnson • Richard S. Johnson was the first person off the tee this morning and played as a single. Johnson teed off at 8:52 a.m. and was done at 10:13 a.m. for a total time of 81 minutes. Johnson hit 6 of 13 fairways, 11 of 18 greens, had 29 putts and shot an even-par 70. No official PGA TOUR records are kept as to the shortest time needed to complete 18 holes. • Joe Ogilvie holed out from 119 yards for eagle-2 at the 355-yard 16th hole today. The eagle moved Ogilvie from 11-under and a share of the lead with Tim Clark to 13-under and the outright lead by two shots. Ogilvie is only the third player in Brown Deer Park history to eagle that par-4:
• Joe Ogilvie becomes the 12th Nationwide Tour alumni to win on the 2007 PGA TOUR and the second in a row (Jonathan Byrd, John Deere Classic). Nationwide Tour alums have now captured 208 PGA TOUR titles. • Joe Ogilvie became the tenth straight U.S. Bank Championship winner to post four scores in the 60s. Ogilvie carded rounds of 67-63-69-67 to wind up 14-under-par 266. The last winner with a round in the 70s was Scott Hoch in 1997. • When the final round began, there were 11 players who had a chance to post four scores in the 60s this week. Only winner Joe Ogilvie (67) and Heath Slocum (69) were able to keep the streak together on Sunday. Tim Herron (72), Tim Clark (71), Kenny Perry (71), Steve Allan (71), Steve Wheatcroft (70), Jesper Parnevik (74), George McNeill (72), Bubba Dickerson (73) and Cliff Kresge (74) all struggled over the final 18 holes.
• Tim Herron posted his first top-10 finish of the year with his T2 effort. It's Herron's first top-10 since winning the 2006 Bank of America Colonial in a playoff. • Charlie Wi's T2-place finish was a career-best. Wi's previous best was a T5 at the 2005 Southern Farm Bureau Classic. Wi birdied four of his final five holes including the last three for a final-round 68. His check for $298,667 is the biggest of his PGA TOUR career, topping the $130,000 he earned for a T9 effort earlier this year at the Buick Invitational.  Steve Flesch • Lefty Steve Flesch posted a 2-under-par 68 on Sunday to finish T5, his first top-10 finish of the year. Flesch had made the cut in 10 of his 21 starts on TOUR this year with a T11 at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am his only top-25 effort. The T5 is Flesch's best finish since a T3 at the 2006 Chrysler Classic of Greensboro. • Steve Flesch's T5 finish this week marks the highest finish by a left-handed player in the 40-year history of the U.S. Bank Championship. Russ Cochran's T7 effort in 2000 was the previous best by a lefty. • Bob Heintz (68?272) birdied the final three holes Sunday and wound up T5, matching his best career finish on the PGA TOUR (104th career start) and his first top-10 since his previous best, a T5 at the 2005 Valero Texas Open. It's also Heintz' first top-25 finish in 16 PGA TOUR starts this season. Heintz picked up a check for $140,500 this week, nearly equal to the $161,426 he collected in his first 15 starts of 2007. • Veteran Jay Delsing, an alternate who got into the field late this week, made the most of his opportunity, shooting scores of 72-65-68-69?274 to win up in a tie for 13th. It's Delsing's best finish since a T5 at the 2006 FedEx St. Jude Classic. • Wisconsin native Mark Wilson (T9) posted only his second top-10 finish of the year. Wilson, winner of The Honda Classic back in March, hadn't finished better than 25th in his 12 starts since winning in Florida.
• Kenny Perry shot a one-over-par 71, ending his streak of consecutive rounds at par-or-better at 13. It was also only the second time Perry, the 2003 champion, has posted an above-par score in the last eight years at Brown Deer Park. Perry shot a 3-over 73 in the final round in 2005 when he tied for ninth. Despite the 71, Perry wound up tied for 5th, his seventh top-10 finish in Milwaukee in the past eight years. • Jeff Brehaut set a tournament record this week with four eagles. Brehaut made his eagles on four different holes: |
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