PGA Tour Statistics

1, Tiger Woods, 67.73. 2, Bart Bryant, 69.61. 3, Adam Scott, 69.67. 4, Luke Donald, 69.70. 5, Phil Mickelson, 69.74. 6, Sergio Garcia, 69.80. 7 (tie), Stewart Cink and Anthony Kim, 69.87. 9, Ben Crane, 69.90. 10, 2 tied with 70.02.

Driving Distance

1, Bubba Watson, 310.5. 2, J.B. Holmes, 307.9. 3, Dustin Johnson, 306.0. 4, Robert Garrigus, 305.3. 5, Brett Wetterich, 302.2. 6, Anthony Kim, 300.0. 7, Adam Scott, 299.8. 8, Fred Couples, 299.5. 9, Tag Ridings, 298.6. 10, Jason Gore, 297.6.

Driving Accuracy Percentage

1, Olin Browne, 80.04%. 2, Scott Verplank, 76.03%. 3, Fred Funk, 75.32%. 4, Heath Slocum, 74.60%. 5, Joe Durant, 74.56%. 6, Robert Gamez, 74.30%. 7, Zach Johnson, 74.03%. 8, Billy Mayfair, 73.76%. 9, Bart Bryant, 73.75%. 10, Justin Leonard, 73.64%.

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Ex-Bulldog Imada wins first PGA Tour event

Since watching that ball plop in the water in front of the 18th green during the playoff a year ago, Ryuji Imada has had one thought chewing through his white Titleist visor and into his brain.

He wasn't coming back to TPC Sugarloaf to finish second again.

"I had one thing on my mind coming into this week, to get a win," Imada said. "To actually do it is just an unbelievable feeling."
The Japanese native by way of the University of Georgia made good on his word Sunday. Imada, 31, shot a 5-under 67 to finish tied with veteran Kenny Perry at 15-under 273, then won the AT&T Classic in a one-hole playoff.

In the playoff last year Imada gift-wrapped the title for Zach Johnson by hitting his approach shot in the water. This time he watched Perry's approach shot hit a tree, ricochet across the green and roll into the water. It allowed Imada — hitting eerily close to the same spot he was in the playoff a year ago — to play more conservatively and win with a par.

"It gave me another option to lay up and play smart and get my par or birdie the normal way," Imada said.

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Quiet golf superstar chalks up another title

Lorena Ochoa, the quietest superstar in sports, reasserted herself over the weekend by winning the Sybase Classic in Clifton, N.J., her sixth championship of the year.

Ochoa's wins of late have been of the Big Brown variety -- running away from the field. Yesterday, was a little different. She had a substantial lead early in the day, four strokes, but then backed up to the field. Still, no one could catch her and she won her sixth tournament of the season by a stroke over five players. At one point this year, she had captured four straight tournaments.

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Jeev finishes 40th at Irish Open golf

Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh's slide continued as he shot a two-over 74 in the final round to finish tied 40th in the European Tour's Adare Manor Irish Open.

The Chandigarh-based golfer, who was Asian Tour No. 1 in 2006, returned with rounds of 66, 76, 75 and 74 during the week for a total of three over 291.

In the final round Sunday at the Adare Manor Golf Resort, Jeev had a horrendous start with three bogeys in the first seven holes. His first birdie of the day took some time in coming on the eighth. But he dropped another shot on 13th, which was his worst hole in the week. He did close with a birdie on 18th, but that was a minor consolation for Jeev, who started the week by sharing the lead after first round.

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Trump rejects alternative plan for greener golf course

DONALD Trump last night rejected an alternative golf course design that environmental groups claimed would allow him to go ahead with his project without destroying the protected dune system at the Menie Estate.
RSPB Scotland and the Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT) revealed they had commissioned Mike Wood, a respected golf course architect, to come up with a new plan for the Aberdeenshire resort.

They claimed the alternative showed Mr Trump could have a "championship level" course at Menie without damaging the vulnerable sand-dunes on the Foveran site of special scientific interest (SSSI) – the focus of the environmental objections to the £1 billion golf resort and housing development.

Mr Wood's design is to be formally submitted this week to the public inquiry into the Trump International Golf Links development as a potential way forward.

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Bean holds on to win Regions Charity Classic by 1

Andy Bean hasn't forgotten how to pull off a dramatic victory. Bean managed to save par on No. 18 after hooking his drive left and bogeying the previous hole, holding on for a 2-under 70 and a one-stroke victory over Loren Roberts on Sunday in the Champions Tour's Regions Charity Classic.

It was only the second win in 5 1/2 years on the 50-and-over tour for Bean and his first since the Greater Hickory Classic on Oct. 1, 2006. That one capped a 20-year drought since his 11th PGA Tour victory.

Bean, who had held or shared the lead after the first two rounds, pulled himself out of trouble on the final hole when his drive nearly hit a hospitality tent some 230 yards from the hole with a bunker in the way. He landed his second shot 21 feet from the hole, though, and two-putted for par and the $255,000 winner's check at Ross Bridge on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.

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Annika Sorenstam to keep swinging for Cutter & Buck

Annika Sorenstam is getting out of professional golf, but she'll still be in Cutter & Buck.

The Annika line of women's golf apparel is one of the Seattle sportswear company's top sellers, so CEO Ernie Johnson has a lot riding on the visibility of Sorenstam, regarded by many as the best woman golfer ever.

News this past week that the 37-year-old Sorenstam plans to retire when the season's LPGA Tour ends was not a shock to Johnson.

"We've known for sometime that starting a family was in her plans, so this didn't come as a surprise to us," he says. "We're very happy for her."

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Ochoa fastest to $12 million mark

A day after leaving the retiring Annika Sorenstam in her wake, Lorena Ochoa overcame a balky putter to shoot a 1-under- par 71 for a one-stroke victory over five players Sunday for her third straight victory in the rain-shortened Sybase Classic.

The victory was the 22nd for Ochoa since April 2006, and the $300,000 prize pushed her career earnings past the $12 million mark, making her the fastest player on the LPGA Tour to reach that plateau. Ochoa accomplished it in just over five years, more than four years faster than the previous mark set by Sorenstam.

• Ryuji Imada claimed his first PGA Tour victory, beating Kenny Perry in a playoff at the AT&T Classic in Duluth, Ga., after losing the tournament a year ago on the 73rd hole. The two finished regulation at 15-under 273, but Perry's ball hit water on the first playoff hole.

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Stats show Ames, Sharp at top of Canadian game

The stuff you can find out on the PGA Tour's web site is pretty cool. If you click on a player and go to their statistics page, you can find out everything from "normal" stuff like driving distance and scoring average to their average score in rounds three or four of a tournament, total eagles, and their scoring averages on par threes, fours and fives — which just about covers it.

It doesn't take long to see where things stand with Canada's big-name golfers.

Stephen Ames of Calgary clearly is the front-runner on the male side as the PGA Tour approaches the U.S. Open in June, while Hamilton's Alena Sharp has little competition on the women's side of the ledger.

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