La Jolla, Calif. Jan. 21-27, 2013 Purse: $6,100,000 ($1,098,000 to the winner)
Torrey Pines Golf Course 500 FedExCup points to winner
South Course (Host) Par/Yards: 36-36—72/7,668
North Course Par/Yards: 36-36—72/7,052
Final-Round Notes – Monday, January 28, 2013
Weather: Mostly sunny, breezy and cool. Wind NE 5-10 mph and shifting W 10-20 mph. High of 58.
The final round resumed at 11:10 a.m. with all 87 players scheduled to continue play.
Final-Round Leaderboard
Tiger Woods 274 (-14)
Brandt Snedeker 278 (-10)
Josh Teater 278 (-10)
Jimmy Walker 279 (-9)
Nick Watney 279 (-9)
Tiger Woods
With his win today, Woods becomes the first player in TOUR history to win on the same golf course eight times. Woods has seven victories in the Farmers Insurance Open and one U.S. Open win at Torrey Pines. Sam Snead won the Greater Greensboro Open eight times between 1938 and 1965 but those wins came at different courses – four at Starmount Forest CC and four at Sedgefield CC.
Woods has now converted 50 of 54 third-round leads/co-leads on TOUR. He has converted his last three third-round leads: 2009 BMW Championship, 2012 Arnold Palmer Invitational and 2013 Farmers Insurance Open.
The largest winning margin in tournament history is eight shots by Tiger Woods in 2008. Tom Watson (1977) and Fuzzy Zoeller (1979) own the next-largest victory margin of five shots. Wood’s victory margins in this event:
1999 2 strokes
2003 4 strokes
2005 3 strokes
2006 playoff
2007 2 strokes
2008 8 strokes
2013 4 strokes
In the years that Woods has won this event, he has gone on to record multiple wins in each of those years:
1999 8 wins
2003 5 wins
2005 6 wins
2006 8 wins
2007 7 wins
2008 4 wins
2013 TBD
Woods has never missed a cut in 13 starts at the Farmers Insurance Open. Through 54 rounds at Torrey Pines now, Woods is 51/54 at par-or-better and 47/54 for sub-par rounds. Of his 47 sub-par rounds, 37 have been in the 60s.
Woods has won seven times at the Farmers Insurance Open, and has held the 54-hole lead four times (1999, 2003, 2008 and 2013).
For the week, Woods played the par-3’s in 4-under par, the par-4’s in 2-over par and the par-5’s in 12-under par.
This week was the second time that Woods has held the 36-hole lead in the Farmers Insurance Open. In 2008, he led by four after 36 holes, before winning by eight over Ryuji Imada.
With his win this week, the Farmers Insurance Open becomes the third event on the PGA TOUR which he has won seven times. The others are the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational and the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Woods’ average winning margin of victory in his seven wins at the Farmers Insurance Open is 3.285 strokes.
Woods collects his 75th career win on TOUR. Sam Snead is the all-time leader with 82 wins.
This is Woods’ first start of the year on TOUR. Prior to this year, Woods has won his first start of the PGA TOUR season six times from 1997-2012 (1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008). In those six seasons he went on to win 37 total events (average 6.16 wins per season). He won a major championship in five of those six years (2003).
ADDITIONAL FINAL-ROUND NOTES:
Brandt Snedeker
Snedeker, a first-round co-leader, fired back-to-back 69s on the weekend and moved into a tie for second.
Snedeker has made seven starts in this event and has five top-10 finishes, including the past four years. Snedeker was solo third in his first start here in 2007 and then missed the cut in 2008. He then tied for 42nd in in 2009. Since then he has finished T2 (2010), T9 (2011), 1st (2012) and T2 this year.
Snedeker fired a 3-under 69 to finish at 10-under 278. In his seven career starts in this event, he has a scoring average of 69.88.
Nick Watney
Watney birdied the final hole for a back nine 39 and a 1-under 71. The birdie putt moved him to 9-under for the week and T4. Watney, the 2009 champion, now has five top-10 finishes in nine starts in this event. In addition to his win, he finished T9 in 2007 and 2010 and T6 in 2011.
Jimmy Walker
Walker missed a 13-foot birdie putt on his final hole and posted a 1-under 71 to win up T4, one place off his career-best finish – T3 at the 2010 Valero Texas Open.
Walker is off to the best start of his TOUR career. He finished T26 at the Sony Open in Hawaii and was T23 at the Humana Challenge last week.
Josh Teater
Teater, now in his fourth season on TOUR, tapped in a short birdie putt at No. 18 for a 3-under 69. His 10-under 278 total moved him into a tie for second place – his career-best finish on Tour. This was Teater’s 96th career start. His previous best was a T3 at the 2010 Turning Stone Championship in his rookie year.
Rickie Fowler
Fowler fired a 4-under 68 in the final round to wind up T6. Fowler has finished in the top-20 in each of his four appearances at Torrey Pines. He was T5 in 2010, T20 in 2011 and T13 last year.
Fowler’s opening 77 was the highest first-round score of any player who made the 36-hole cut this week. The next highest scores of those who made the cut were 74s by Brendon de Jonge (T15) and Boo Weekley (T34).
Fowler’s opening-round 77 matched his fourth-highest opening round score on TOUR but this was the first time he bounced back to make the cut. He carded a 79 in the first round of the 2010 British Open, a 78 to begin the 2009 U.S. Open and a 77 on the first day at THE PLAYERS Championship in 2011 but missed the cut in all of those events. His previous best “bounce back” came after an opening 75 at the 2012 Northern Trust Open, where he finished T62.
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Aaron Baddeley
Baddeley closed with rounds of 68-69 to move into a tie for sixth place. His 7-under score over the final 36 holes was the best in the field this week.
Brad Fritsch
Fritsch, a Canadian-born TOUR rookie who now lives in North Carolina, birdied his final hole to finish T9 and earn a spot in next week’s Waste Management Open in Phoenix. This was Fritsch’s eighth career start on TOUR and his first top-10 finish. He started his year with a T36 at the Sony Open in Hawaii and a T65 at the Humana Challenge last week.
Adam Hadwin
Hadwin withdrew prior to the resumption of play Monday. He receives last-place money but it will not be “official” money.
Best Rounds – Round 4
66 – Jason Day
67 – Robert Garrigus
68 – James Driscoll, Rickie Fowler, Jerry Kelly, Chez Reavie
Scoring Averages
R1 R2 R3 R4 Cumulative
North Course 70.064 71.293 – — 70.667
South Course 71.731 73.117 73.287 72.442 72.655