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Tom Kite and Mark O’Meara will play in the final grouping on Sunday
for the second consecutive week on the Champions Tour and both for
major championship winners will be shooting for significant
victories tomorrow in
Kite has never won in
O’Meara could also become the 13th different player (15th
time) to win a PGA TOUR and Champions Tour event at the same venue.
Earlier this year, Tom Watson claimed the Senior British Open at
Muirfield, 25 years after winning the British Open at the same
layout in
There’s a good chance tomorrow’s champion will become the 20th
different winner on the Champions Tour in 2007. The last time the
circuit had 20 different champions was in 2004.
Tom Kite’s 36-Hole Statistics:
Mark
O’Meara’s 36-Hole Statistics: Driving
Accuracy – 19 of 28 (67.9%)
-- 18 of 28
(64.3%) Driving
Distance -- 320.1
-- 309.1 Greens In
Regulation – 29 of 36 (80.6%)
-- 29 of 36
(80.6%)
Putts Per
Round—28.5
-- 28.0/
Mark O’Meara’s 68 today stretched his run of sub-70 rounds to six
straight and he’s now 33-under-par for this stretch that started
with a final-round 65 (5-under) at the Constellation Energy Senior
Players Championship.
Mark O’Meara’s record on the PGA TOUR when leading/co-leading
heading into Sunday is 9 for 16.
Tom Kite’s Champions Tour record when leading/co-leading
heading into the final round is 6 for 13.
Second-round leaders/co-leaders have won this tournament 12 times in
the previous 22 years. Since the event has been played at Oak Hills,
only Jay Haas in 2005 came from behind to win. Thus far in 2007,
leaders/co-leaders heading into the final round have won 17 of 28
events, including the last five tournaments played on the Champions
Tour.
The second-round stroke average for the field today was 70.182 and
for the first 36 holes this year, the field scoring average is
70.506. Last year at Oak Hills, the field averaged 70.667 on
Saturday and the two-round stroke average was 70.782. There were 30
rounds in the 60s today compared to 28 sub-70 scores yesterday.
For the second straight day, the par-3 13th hole played
as the most difficult (3.299 today vs. 3.260 on Friday). Just one
birdie was made on the hole (Loren Roberts). The par-5 15th
hole again played as the easiest (4.429 vs 4.442), yielding one
eagle and 45 birdies among the 77 players who completed their rounds
today.
Dave Stockton matched his age for the second time in his career
today.
It figures to be a wild scramble to see who earns a spot in next
week’s Charles Schwab Cup Championship in
Projected
Position Entering
Projected
36-Hole
Position
Player
This Week
2007 Money
Status
29.
Des Smyth
29-$615,261
$624,518
T34
30.
Tom Jenkins
31-$594,239
$605,519
T32___
31.
Jim Thorpe
30-$592,0382-$538,737
$604,078
T41
32.
Craig Stadler
32-$538,737
$562,833
T16
Don’t look for a playoff tomorrow at the AT&T Championship. Only
once in the previous 22 tournaments in
Of the top-nine players on the leaderboard, all but Mark Wiebe have
experience in the Ryder Cup.
Among the contenders this week who went on to be Ryder Cup
captains are Tom Kite, Mark James and Dave Stockton.
Bruce Fleisher withdrew from the event after his round with a
injured left arm. Fleisher was at 6-over-par 148 for 36 holes.
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