PGA Tour Statistics

1, Tiger Woods, 67.73. 2, Phil Mickelson, 69.42. 3, Bart Bryant, 69.56. 4, Ben Crane, 69.66. 5, Adam Scott, 69.67. 6, Luke Donald, 69.70. 7, Sergio Garcia , 69.80. 8, Anthony Kim, 69.84. 9, Stewart Cink, 69.87. 10, Steve Marino, 69.98.

Driving Distance

1, Bubba Watson, 312.3. 2, J.B. Holmes, 307.9. 3, Dustin Johnson, 307.8. 4, Robert Garrigus, 306.1. 5, Brett Wetterich, 304.7. 6, Tag Ridings, 300.6. 7, Anthony Kim, 300.5. 8, Adam Scott, 299.8. 9, Fred Couples, 299.5. 10, Harrison Frazar, 298.8.

Driving Accuracy Percentage

1, Olin Browne, 78.71%. 2, Mark Brooks, 77.48%. 3, Fred Funk, 75.32%. 4, Scott Verplank, 75.15%. 5, Zach Johnson, 74.03%. 6, Bart Bryant, 73.70%. 7, Heath Slocum, 73.68%. 8, Joe Durant, 73.30%. 9, Billy Mayfair, 72.89%. 10, Paul Goydos, 72.85%.

Greens in Regulation Pct.

1, Tiger Woods, 73.26%. 2, Vijay Singh, 70.00%. 3, Justin Leonard, 69.83%. 4, Robert Allenby, 69.72%. 5, Stewart Cink, 69.51%. 6, Briny Baird, 69.34%. 7, Hunter Mahan, 69.25%. 8, Tom Scherrer, 69.10%. 9, Joe Durant, 68.80%. 10, Sergio Garcia, 68.70%.

Total Driving

1, J.J. Henry, 87. 2, Jason Bohn, 89. 3, Joe Durant, 91. 4, Mathew Goggin, 94. 5, Nicholas Thompson, 102. 6, Jason Gore, 103. 7, John Merrick, 105. 8, Ben Crane, 106. 9, Rich Beem, 109. 10, 2 tied with 110.

Putting Average

1, Marco Dawson, 1.717. 2, Jeff Quinney, 1.722. 3, Padraig Harrington, 1.725. 4 , Aaron Baddeley, 1.727. 5 (tie), Daniel Chopra and Nathan Green, 1.733. 7, Tiger Woods, 1.735. 8 (tie), Ryuji Imada and Luke Donald, 1.737. 10, Justin Leonard, 1.744.

Birdie Average

1, Padraig Harrington, 4.32. 2, Tiger Woods, 4.31. 3, Phil Mickelson, 4.02. 4, Adam Scott, 4.00. 5, Camilo Villegas, 3.93. 6, J.B. Holmes, 3.88. 7 (tie), Justin Leonard and Aaron Baddeley, 3.82. 9, Jonathan Byrd, 3.81. 10, Stewart Cink, 3.78.

Eagles (Holes per)

1, Adam Scott, 93.6. 2, Mathias Gronberg, 95.1. 3, Tiger Woods, 96.0. 4, Stewart Cink, 105.4. 5, Nick Watney, 113.1. 6, Charles Warren, 122.4. 7 (tie), Matt Jones and Dustin Johnson, 128.6. 9, Tom Scherrer, 132.0. 10, Steve Lowery, 135.0.

Sand Save Percentage

1, Corey Pavin, 69.57%. 2, Phil Mickelson, 68.33%. 3 (tie), Craig Barlow and Ted Purdy, 66.67%. 5, Brian Gay, 65.22%. 6, Rod Pampling, 64.10%. 7, Mark Wilson, 63.64%. 8, Lee Janzen, 63.41%. 9, Mike Weir, 63.08%. 10, Pat Perez , 62.12%.

All-Around Ranking

1, Adam Scott, 254. 2, Phil Mickelson, 270. 3, Pat Perez, 313. 4, Stewart Cink, 338. 5, Tiger Woods, 342. 6, Ben Crane, 361. 7, Camilo Villegas, 362. 8, Robert Allenby, 363. 9, Justin Leonard, 379. 10, Anthony Kim, 388.

PGA TOUR Official Money Leaders

1, Tiger Woods (5), $4,425,000. 2, Phil Mickelson (12), $3,807,270. 3, Stewart Cink (12), $2,482,378. 4, Geoff Ogilvy (12), $2,410,685. 5, Ryuji Imada (13), $2,312,647. 6, Vijay Singh (12), $2,182,017. 7, Anthony Kim (12), $2,115,370. 8, Sergio Garcia (9), $2,053,890. 9, Jeff Quinney, (15), $1,882,489. 10, Boo Weekley (14), $1,879,780.

Phil the thrill a winner at Colonial

Phil Mickelson's sparkling birdie at the final hole yesterday gave him a one-stroke victory in the Crowne Plaza Invitational, a PGA Tour event at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.

A poor drive at the par-four finishing hole left Mickelson with a shot blocked by a clump of trees. However, the No. 2 player in the world rankings lofted a wedge shot over the obstacle, with his ball landing on the of the green before rolling to within nine feet of the cup.

He calmly knocked in the birdie putt for a 2-under-par 68 that gave him a total of 266 and a one-shot margin over Rod Pampling (68) and Tim Clark (66).

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PGA Tour chief knows how to make call

The Professional Golfers' Association Tour is a strange beast to manage. Unlike most sports organizations, it's an association of players, created by them in 1968 to generate financial and marketing benefits.

The golfers are independent contractors, and there are a lot of them -- at any given time more than 600 have the right to compete in one of the three affiliated tours: the PGA Tour, the Champions Tour for 50-plus golfers and the developmental Nationwide Tour.

Moreover, the PGA Tour doesn't own its venues or even totally control its tournaments. Indeed, drumming up big-money events and keeping sponsors happy is a major part of the commissioner's job.

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Haas now has much fonder memories of Oak Hill

For an Oak Hill Country Club East Course that's been described as stingy, relentless and, most of all, brutal, Jay Haas can now add a far more complimentary adjective: merciful.

Haas erased the dreadful memory of one of the worst moments in his 32 years as a professional golfer by hanging on through a bogey-filled final round to claim the 69th Senior PGA Championship.

''I exorcised some demons,'' Haas said. ''That's probably one of my most solid pars I've ever made.''

Haas was referring to how he played No. 18 in the final round on Sunday, sealing his 7-over 287 tournament victory one shot better than Bernhard Langer with a drive into the fairway and an approach shot to within 17 feet of the pin before closing with a 2-foot putt for par.

It was a far better finish than how Haas played this same hole during the 1995 Ryder Cup, when he drove his tee shot into the trees and settled for bogey to lose the singles match to Philip Walton, giving up the decisive point in the European team's comeback 14 1/2-13 1/2 win over the United States.

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