Bank of America Championship: Final-Round Notebook  PGA TOUR Staff CONCORD, Mass. -- With his victory in the Bank of America Championship on Sunday, Jay Haas wins his second straight Champions Tour event. He also won the Principal Charity Classic in West Des Moines, Iowa, two weeks ago.  Jay Haas now has more wins on the Champions Tour than he did on the PGA TOUR. (Jim Rogash/WireImage)
• Haas now has 19 combined victories in his PGA TOUR (9 wins) and Champions Tour (10 wins) career. This marks the second time in his Champions Tour career that Haas has won consecutive events. He won three straight in 2006 at one point. • The victory earned Haas a check for $247,500, pushing his season earnings to $1,748,158. It also pushed him over the $20 million mark in career earnings ($20,149,274). He is the sixth Champions Tour player to surpass that figure, joining Hale Irwin, Gil Morgan, Tom Kite, Fred Funk and Nick Price. • Haas also joins his uncle, Bob Goalby, as the winner of this tournament. Goalby won the inaugural title in 1981 when it was called the Marlboro Classic and played at Marlboro Country Club. Haas and Goalby also each won what is now the Buick Invitational in San Diego on the PGA TOUR. • Haas' victory gave him 10 wins in just 49 starts on the Champions Tour. The Champions Tour's all-time leader in victories, Hale Irwin, did not win his 10th event until his 50th start. Irwin's 10th career win came at the 1997 BankBoston Classic. • Haas earns 248 points in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup race and increases his lead to 583 points over Denis Watson in the competition. Haas now has 1,703 points followed by Watson with 1,120 and Brad Bryant with 1,079. • Leonard Thompson's T2 finish was his best finish since he was T2 at the 2003 Emerald Coast Classic. • Brad Bryant's strong play on the weekend earned him a T2 finish for the second straight event. Bryant had rounds of 68-67 this weekend two weeks after he posted rounds of 65-67 to help him to a T2 finish at the Principal Charity Classic. • Rick Karbowski, a former Auburn, Mass., resident, earned a spot in next week's Commerce Bank Championship after finishing T8 on Sunday. A non-exempt player on the Champions Tour, he was in the Bank of America Championship on a sponsor's exemption. Karbowski birdied the final hole to secure his top-10 finish and a spot in next week's event. • Jay Sigel continued his strong play, finishing T8. It was his second straight top-10 finish after he was T4 two weeks ago at the Principal Charity Classic. The 63-year-old Sigel last had a pair of top-10 finishes in 2005. • Defending champion Mark McNulty finished T28. Chip Beck withdrew on his second hole on Sunday due to a sore right shoulder. • Two weeks after joining his brother, David, as a top-10 finisher at the Principal Charity Classic, Danny Edwards earned a second straight top-10 finish, placing T5. • With his sixth top-10 finish this year, R.W. Eaks (T5) is closing in on his career-best total for season earnings. Eaks has earned $737,943 this year and is less than $15,000 from surpassing his 2006 total of $751,923. Copyright 2007 PGATOUR.com. All rights reserved. |
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