E-Notes: Verplank on road to par-or-better rounds record

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• Scott Verplank added to his streak of consecutive par-or-better rounds last week at the Northern Trust Open. On his way to a tie-for-fifth finish, Verplank stretched his streak to 27 consecutive rounds of par-or-better dating back to last season. He's a little more than halfway to the record 52 in a row set back in 2001 by Tiger Woods.

Stuart Appleby

• When Stuart Appleby tees it up on Wednesday at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship, he will continue to be the only player to compete in every World Golf Championship event since their inception. The Accenture Match Play Championship will be his 27th consecutive World Golf Championship tournament.

• When Phil Mickelson won last week's Northern Trust Open, he became just the third player to win all four of the current California TOUR events. Mickelson joins Billy Casper and Johnny Miller as the only players to win the Buick Invitational, Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and Northern Trust Open in their careers.

• Phil Mickelson is the new leader in the FedExCup points race. He's the fourth different player to hold the top spot this year joining Daniel Chopra, K.J. Choi and J.B. Holmes. This week's World Golf Chmapionships -- Accenture Match Play Championship will offer 26,250 FedExCup points with the winner earning 4,725.

• When there is a short match at the World Golf Chmapionships -- Accenture Match Play Championship, Stephen Ames is often involved. Ames has won a match 8&7 (Robert Karlsson, 2007) and lost matches 9&8 (Tiger Woods, 2006) and 7&6 (Mark Hensby, 2005).

• This week's Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya will feature nine players who have won major championships on the TOUR--Mark Brooks, John Daly (2), Lee Janzen (2), Shaun Micheel, Larry Mize, Greg Norman (2), Corey Pavin, Nick Price (3) and Bob Tway.