Buick Invitational: Final-Round Notebook

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LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Tiger Woods won the Buick Invitational for the sixth time at Torrey Pines Golf Club on Sunday. It is also the sixth time a player has won the same tournament six or more times, but only four players have collected these victories on the same course.

Players who have won a single event six times on the same course:

• Alex Ross won the North & South Open six times at Pinehurst (1902, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1915)

• Jack Nicklaus won the Masters Tournament six times at Augusta National (1963,1965, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1986)

• Sam Snead won the Miami Open six times at the Miami Springs G & CC (1937, 1939, 1946, 1950, 1951, 1955)

• Tiger Woods won the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Inviational at Firestone CC (South) (1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007)

• Tiger Woods won the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines (1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)

Players who have won a single event six or more times, but on a variety of courses:

• Sam Snead's eight wins in Greensboro were spilt between four at Starmount Forest CC and fo•ur at Sedgefield CC (1938, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1965)

Harry Vardon's six wins at the British Open were played on four different courses. Three of his wins came at Prestwick (1898, 1903, 1914) in Scotland, two at Royal St. Georges (1899, 1911) in England and his first victory in 1896 came at Muirfield in Scotland.

• Tiger Woods six wins at the World Golf Championships-American Express Championship were played at six different courses. Valderrama Golf Club (1999), Mt. Juliet Estate (2002), Capital City Club (2003), Harding Park (2005), The Grove (2006) and Doral Blue Monster (2007).

• In his last three tournaments (all victories), Tiger Woods has a scoring average of 65.66.

2008 Buick Invitational - 67-65-66-71-269-Win
2007 TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola- 64-63-64-66-257-Win
2007 BMW Championship - 67-67-65-63-262-Win

• Digging further, in his last six events (five victories and one runner-up) his scoring average is 66.75.

2007 Deutsche Bank Championship- 72-64-67-67-270-T2
2007 PGA Championship - 71-63-69-69-272-Win
2007 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational-68-70-69-65-272-Win

• The Southern California native has 12 wins in his home state, just ahead of the 10 he has in his adopted state of Florida.

• Sunday's scoring average of 74.788 was highest final-round average at the South Course since 1983 when the TOUR began keeping records. The only other time it has been above Sunday's average on the South Course was in the first round of the 1993 event when the average was 79.351. On that day, it was cold wet conditions with winds steady at 30 mph and gusting to 40 mph.

• With his tie for third this week, Rory Sabbatini moves to third in the FedExCup points standings. After four events for the season, K.J. Choi, who missed the cut on Friday, maintained his position in the top spot in the FedExCup standings with 4,681 points. Justin Leonard dropped from fifth to sixth and Tiger Woods moves into the top-10 and is in fifth place.

• Going back to last year, Sabbatini has finished in the top-10 in six out of his last seven starts, including finishing in the top 10 in all four PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. During that span, the only event he did not finish in the top-10 was the season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship (17th).

• Justin Leonard is off to a solid start in 2008, thanks to his fifth-place this week, his third top-10 effort in three starts. Last week, Leonard finished second at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic and he began the season with a tie for eighth at the Mercedes-Benz Championship. Leonard has now finished inside the top 10 in six of his last seven tournaments, dating back to his win at the 2007 Valero Texas Open. In fact, last year he jumped from 99th on the money list to finish 33rd at the end of the season during the PGA TOUR Fall Series.

• Phil Mickelson collected his first top-10 of the season with his tie for sixth at the Buick Invitational. He now has nine top-10s in 19 starts at the Buick Invitational, including three victories. It is his 131st career top-10.

• The last time Fred Couples (tied for eighth) finished inside the top-10 on the PGA TOUR was at the 2006 Masters Tournament where he tiede for third, three strokes back of Phil Mickelson. Couples has finished in the top 10 five times in 19 starts at Torrey Pines Golf Club.

• Ryuji Imada finished runner-up at the Buick Invitational, his second career runner-up title in 97 career professional starts. Imada lost to Zach Johnson at the 2007 AT&T Classic. He converted an up-and-down birdie from behind the 72nd green to force a playoff. He lost in the first hole of the playoff after Johnson made a birdie-4. He now has five career top-10s on TOUR.