Es war nicht die Turnierwoche der deutschen letzte Woche, in Österreich mussten alle drei angetretenen deutschen Golfer (Sven Strüver, Martin Kaymer und Erol Simsek) nach zwei Runden die Segel streichen. Dem Lokalmatador Markus Brier ging es leider auch nicht besser.

Kurioses bei den Stanford St. Jude Championships: Alex Cejka wird in Runde eins disqualifiziert wegen des signierens einer falschen Scorecard (fünf gespielt, vier gesagt, drei notiert?). Bernhard Langer war mit Runden von 77 und 72 Schlägen am Cut gescheitert.

2007 PGA TOUR FedExCup
39. Platz (Vorwoche 37) Bernhard Langer mit 12 Events und 4.618 Punkten
124. Platz (Vorwoche 119) Alex Cejka mit 12 Events und 1.355 Punkten

2007 PGA Tour Money
42. Platz (Vorwoche 41) Bernhard Langer mit 12 Events und 1.078.329 Dollar
124. Platz (Vorwoche 118) Alex Cejka mit 12 Events 323.324 Dollar

2007 European Tour Order of Merit
52. Platz (Vorwoche 51) Martin Kaymer mit 15 Events und 238.882 Euro
128. Platz (Vorwoche 122) Sven Strüver mit 13 Events und 93.013 Euro
166. Platz (Vorwoche 159) Marcel Siem mit 10 Events und 56.733 Euro
282. Platz (Vorwoche 282) Bernhard Langer mit 1 Event und 3.739 Euro

Und heute ausnahmesweise auch mal die World Golf Rankings:
88. Platz Bernhard Langer, Pts. Avg. 1.63
119. Platz Martin Kaymer, Pts. Avg. 1.30
267. Platz Marcel Siem, Pts. Avg. 0.62
353. Platz Alex Cejka, Pts. Avg. 0.47
604. Platz Sven Struver, Pts. Avg. 0.21
768. Platz Kariem Baraka, Pts. Avg. 0.11
841. Platz Tobias Dier, Pts. Avg. 0.08
951. Platz Benjamin Miarka, Pts. Avg. 0.05

COLIN MURRAY: Alright. We welcome our 2007 Stanford St. Jude Champion, Woody Austin. Woody, thanks for joining is. Your third career PGA TOUR victory. Played the final 49 holes without a bogey this week. Collect 4500 FedExCup points, which I believe gets you to 29th in those standings. If you could just talk a little bit about your 62 today and we’ll open it up to some questions.

WOODY AUSTIN: You know, I played real well on the weekend, obviously, without making any bogies and I was starting to play — played real solid yesterday and felt like if I could play really good today and just tried — I just tried to — figured if I could get to 10 and make David or make Adam Scott 1-under or whatever, I felt like — you know, I didn’t want him to just kind of cruise around the golf course.
And I got off to an awesome start when I holed out that wedge on No. 3 for the eagle and just kind of jump started and then I kind of stumbled a little bit, but I was playing so solid that after No. 6 — I don’t know if I hit a bad shot after that.
Pretty much hit the ball right where I wanted to, hit the ball on the greens right below the holes and had just a bunch of opportunities and was able to make some.

COLIN MURRAY: Alright. We’ll go ahead and open it up for questions.

Q. Have you ever played a better round of golf?
WOODY AUSTIN: My caddy asked me that. I controlled the ball so well with the irons today. There was just — every shot was solid, every shot was where I was trying to hit it and so from that standpoint probably not, especially under these circumstances.
There’s definitely not, but as far as — I feel like I played better once before when I shot 57 at home. Shot 13-under on my home course when I was in college, so — but obviously that’s nothing to do with it under these circumstances and this position, so I’m ecstatic.

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