Brett Quigley had by far his best year on the PGA TOUR in 2006. He finished 20th on the money list with more than $2.6 million, about as much as his last three years combined.

Best of all, he finally gets to play in the Masters.

"Unbelievable," Quigley said. "That's pretty cool, especially going to school in South Carolina, going down to the practice rounds. To me, that's probably the best reward for playing great this year."

Quigley played Augusta National two years ago with his father, a college friend and a member. He said it was 40 degreeswith miserable conditions and "I loved every minute of it."

He already has a caddie lined up for the Masters -- his father, Paul, a top amateur in New England who also caddied for him at the 2003 U.S. Open where Quigley opened with a 65.

"I think I have to, my first time there," Quigley said. "I think it would be an amazing thing for the both of us, something I would love to share with him."

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Jerry Kelly kept shooting good scores at the wrong time.

Kelly led the PGA TOUR this year in one of the more peculiar statistics -- most tournaments with all four rounds in the 60s without winning. Kelly did it five times. He tied for 13th in the Sony Open in Hawaii, shared for 12th at the Bank of America Colonial, tied for ninth at the FUNAI Classic at WALT DISNEY World Resort and was runner-up at Tucson and Milwaukee. He wound up 39th on the money list, although he didn't win until the Merrill Lynch Shootout, a week after the official season ended.

Heath Slocum was next, shooting four rounds in the 60s four times without walking away with the trophy. And perhaps the strongest effort came from two-time champion Jim Furyk. He had three tournaments with all four rounds in the 60s without winning, and two of them were World Golf Championships. The other was the Buick Open. All three were won by Tiger Woods.

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CLOSING BELL: After two straight years in the top 10 on the PGA TOUR money list, Sergio Garcia fell to No. 49 this year, and it wasn't hard to see why. His biggest problem was Sunday.

Garcia didn't break par in the final round of a PGA TOUR event until a 69 at the Memorial Tournament.

Of the 12 cuts he made on TOUR, he broke par only three times in the final round and broke 70 just twice. His final-round scoring average was 72.9, which placed him 181st among 196 players and 4.2 shots behind Tiger Woods.

Garcia most recently was in contention on Sunday two weeks ago at the Taiheiyo Masters until closing with a 77.

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DIVOTS: Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson will be partners again in the Champions Skins Game, to be played on Jan. 13-14 on Maui. Other teams will be Arnold Palmer and Loren Roberts, Gary Player and Jay Haas, and defending champions Ray Floyd and Dana Quigley. ... U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy had a tough time going from the slick greens of Australia to the Bermuda greens of Poipu Bay at the Grand Slam of Golf. "I played the Australian Open last week," he said. "If I hit some of those putts that hard, I would have been bouncing off the shins of the people in the crowd." ... Shane Bertsch and Patrick Sheehan tied for the TOUR lead by playing 34 tournaments this year. Sheehan will play in his 35th this week in California -- the final stage of Q-school.

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STAT: Five years ago, 55 players earned at least $1 million on the PGA TOUR. This year, 59 players earned at least $1 million -- without a tournament victory.

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