Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship: Final-round notebook

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TIMONIUM, Md. -- D.A. Weibring ended an 0-64 drought in major championships (0-39 on the PGA TOUR, 0-25 on the Champions Tour) on Sunday, claiming the first major title of his professional career. Weibring's previous-best in a major on the PGA TOUR were ties for third at both the 1987 PGA Championship and 1988 U.S. Open.

With his runner-up finish Sunday, Fred Funk is still in the hunt for the Charles Schwab Cup. (Cohen/Getty Images)

Inside the Numbers

Final Leaderboard

Player Score 1. D.A. Weibring 271 -9 2. Fred Funk 272 -8 T3. Ben Crenshaw 273 -7 T3. Nick Price 273 -7 T3. Jeff Sluman 273 -7 6. Jay Haas 274 -6 T7. John Cook 275 -5 T7. Bernhard Langer 275 -5 T7. Brad Bryant 275 -5 T7. Eduardo Romero 275 -5

• On the Champions Tour, Weibring's previous-best effort was a tie for second at the 2005 U.S. Senior Open, when he led the championship with two holes to play and had a bogey-bogey finish at NCR Country Club in Dayton, Ohio.

• D.A. Weibring became the 17th different winner on the Champions Tour this year and Sunday's win was his fifth overall title on the Champions Tour, matching his victory total on the PGA TOUR.

• D.A. Weibring earned an invitation to the 2009 PLAYERS Championship. He last played at THE PLAYERS in 1997 (missed cut). His best finish in THE PLAYERS was a second in 1985, three strokes back of Calvin Peete.

• D.A. Weibring's victory was his first on the Champions Tour since the 2007 3M Championship and gives him a five-year exemption into the MasterCard Championship at Hualalai, the Champions Tour's season-opening, limited-field event in Hawaii.

• D.A. Weibring earned a check for $390,000, the largest of his professional career, and increases his 2008 official earnings to $915,794 (18th).

• D.A. Weibring's 72-hole total of 9-under-par 271 was the highest score in relation to par to win the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship since Jim Albus claimed the 1991 Senior Players with a score of 9-under 279 at TPC Michigan near Detroit.

• Bernhard Langer's tie for seventh finish this week means he's the only player to finish among the top-10 in all five Champions Tour majors in 2008. Langer was second at the Senior PGA Championship, fourth at the Senior British Open, tied for sixth at the U.S. Senior Open and tied for seventh at the JELD-WEN Tradition.

• The cumulative field stroke average for this year's event was 70.887 compared to 71.016 at Baltimore Country Club last year.

• D.A. Weibring's one-stroke margin of victory marked the fourth time in the last five years the event has been decided by a single shot.

• The par-4, 427-yard first hole and par-4, 496-yard 18th hole at Baltimore Country Club tied for the hardest holes of the week (4.288). The first yielded just 18 birdies while the 18th gave up 27 birdies.

• Statistical News and Notes: Don Pooley hit the most fairways off the tee (48 of 56). ... John Cook led the field in greens hit in regulation (59 of 72). ... Massy Kuramoto averaged just 28.25 putts per round.

• Next week, the Champions Tour is in Houston for the Administaff Small Business Classic at The Woodlands Country Club. Hal Sutton, a 14-time winner on the PGA TOUR, will make his Champions Tour debut next week.

• D.A. Weibring picked up 780 Charles Schwab Cup points and vaulted into 11th place (1,064 points) in the season-long race. Fred Funk's second-place finish earned him 458 points this week and he moved from the third spot in first place. Through 26 of 29 official events, Fred Funk now has 2,422 total points and leads Jay Haas, the leader coming into this event, by just 28 points.

• Bernhard Langer is now in third place, just 216 points back of Funk. At the end of official season, the player earning the most Schwab Cup points will receive a $1 million payout. Double points will again be on the line at the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Sonoma, Calif.

• Based on the points available to the winners in the three remaining events (1,387 points), only 10 players still have an opportunity to win the 2008 Charles Schwab Cup. In addition to Funk, Haas and Langer, Eduardo Romero, John Cook, Jeff Sluman, Scott Hoch, Loren Roberts, Nick Price and D.A. Weibring remain in the hunt.