E-Notes: Turtle Bay was a big week for champions

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• Mark Wiebe joined the Champions Tour last September, but he didn't have his first 3-putt until last week's Turtle Bay Championship. Wiebe's 3-putt on the ninth hole of the opening round ended a stretch of 296 holes without one.

Fulton Allem

Fred Funk

• Two PGA TOUR veterans posted their best finishes in quite some time last week in Hawaii. Fulton Allem's tie for second was his best finish since he won the 1993 World Series of Golf and Wayne Grady's tie for fourth was his best effort since winning the 1990 PGA Championship.

• Fred Funk's run of 15 consecutive sub-par rounds ended with a crash last week with a final-round 81 in tough conditions at the Turtle Bay Championship. Funk finished a four-event, two-Tour swing of Hawaii with $185,571 in earnings on the PGA TOUR and $310,103 on the Champions Tour. He has set a goal of winning $2 million on each Tour this year.

• Fred Funk didn't earn any Charles Schwab Cup points last week, but he still maintained his lead over Jerry Pate by 60 points in the standings. Pate earned 240 points for his Turtle Bay Championship victory. Allen Doyle, Bernhard Langer and Loren Roberts round out the top five. Doyle (2001) and Roberts (2007), are both previous Charles Schwab Cup champions.

• The Charles Schwab Cup, designed to recognize the Champions Tour's leading player, is a season-long, bonus-points competition. Players receive points for top-10 finishes at all 29 official events based on each week's money distribution, with $1,000 earned the equivalent of one Charles Schwab Cup point (points are doubled at the five major championships and the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship). The program offers $2.1 million in tax-deferred annuity payouts to the five leading finishers, with the winner receiving a $1-million annuity.