Notebook, Round 4: The Greenbrier Classic

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• Stuart Appleby shot a 22-under 258 to defeat Jeff Overton by one shot to win the inaugural Greenbrier Classic.

• Stuart Appleby shot a bogey-free 11-under 59 in his 381st PGA TOUR start. He joins Al Geiberger, Chip Beck, David Duval and Paul Goydos as the only players to post that record-low, 18-hole score in a PGA TOUR event.

• Stuart Appleby joins David Duval (1999 Bob Hope Classic) as the only players to shoot a final-round 59.

• Appleby, David Duval and Al Geiberger are the only players to shoot a 59 and win. Chip Beck finished T3 and Paul Goydos finished second when they shot their 59s.

• Stuart Appleby's 59 is the fifth score of 60 or better on the PGA TOUR in the last four weeks:

• Before this year the only other time in history that a 59 and 60 were recorded in the same season was 1999, when David Duval recorded a 59 and Tommy Armour III recorded a 60.

• In July at the John Deere Classic, Paul Goydos (59) and Steve Stricker (60) recorded the two lowest scores to ever be posted in the same round (round one). Stuart Appleby's final round 59 and J.B. Holmes' 60 in the third round are just the second time those scores have been posted in the same tournament.

• Appleby played his 11 th consecutive week on TOUR. His last off week was the Valero Texas Open.

• With Appleby's win, international players have now won 11 of the last 15 events on TOUR. It is the 17 th win by an international player on TOUR this year.

• Appleby had gone 358 rounds since he last shot a 64 or better (2006 Zurich Classic of New Orleans).

• Appleby was seven strokes behind Jeff Overton starting the final round. It is the largest final day come-from-behind victory on TOUR this season (Bubba Watson -- 6 strokes -- Travelers Championship). It is the largest final round come-from-behind victory since 2005 when Padraig Harrington (Honda Classic) and Brad Faxon-(Buick Championship) came back from seven strokes to win.

• It is Appleby's 110 th tournament on TOUR since his last win at the 2006 Shell Houston Open.

• Appleby's previous personal-best was a 62 at the 2003 Las Vegas Invitational.

• Jeff Overton moves to sixth in the FedExCup standings.

• Ernie Els has led the FedExCup standings for 19 consecutive weeks. Since the FedExCup competition began in 2007, Els' run atop the standings betters Tiger Woods' string of 16 consecutive weeks in 2007.

• Overton entered the Greenbrier Classic as perhaps the TOUR's hottest golfer, finishing inside the top 12 in six out of his last nine starts. During that stretch he has two runner-up finishes (Zurich Classic of New Orleans, HP Byron Nelson Championship) and two third-place finishes (Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, AT&T National). Overton records the fourth runner-up finish of his career.

• Brendon de Jonge (3 rd ) has three top 10s in his last five starts.

• Woody Austin shot the eighth 63 of his career, none of which came in a final round. His career-low 62 came in the final-round of the 2007 St. Jude Classic where he won the last of his three TOUR titles.

• Chris Couch has three events to make $15,559 and earn Major Medical status for the rest of the season.

• D.A. Points made his 21 st start of the season, with 11 made cuts and top-10 finishes at The Greenbrier Classic (T4), the HP Byron Nelson Championship (T7) and the Farmers Insurance Open (T9).

• J.B. Holmes (T16) moves to 17 th in the FedExCup standings, with 17 made cuts in 18 starts. He has three-top 10 finishes on the year, a T2 at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, T3 at the Northern Trust Open and fifth-place finish at the AT&T National.

• Roger Tambellini's (T4) previous best finish on TOUR was T14 at the 2004 BellSouth Classic. Tambellini registers his first top 10 on TOUR in his 72 nd start. Roger Tambellini finished T2 at the 2009 Nationwide Tour Players Cup in Bridgeport, West Virginia.

• Paul Stankowski (T4) recorded his second top 10 of the season. It is the first multiple top 10 season for Stankowski since he had four in 2003. Stankowski did not record a top 10 on TOUR for five seasons coming into this year (2005-2009).

• Charles Howell III (T9) did not record a bogey all week at The Greenbrier Classic. He is the first player since Bubba Watson at the 2006 Chrysler Classic of Tucson to go bogey-free at a tournament and not win.

• Howell was one of 18 players to go bogey-free in the final round.

• The Greenbrier Classic (68.536) joins the Crowne Plaza Invitational (68.541) as the only two tournaments this season with a scoring average under 69.

• The par-4 13 th hole played the toughest during the week, yielding a 4.133 average. The par-5 12 th hole was the easiest hole all week with a 4.591 average.