Round 4 Notebook: HP Byron Nelson Championship

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• Jason Day shot a 10-under 270 (66-65-67-72) to win the HP Byron Nelson Championship by two strokes over Brian Gay, Jeff Overton and Blake Adams.

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• Day moves to 23rd on the FedExCup standings. Ernie Els maintains his 223 point lead over Jim Furyk in the FedExCup standings. Els has held the FedExCup lead for nine consecutive weeks.

• Day (22 years, 6 months and 11 days) is the second youngest winner on TOUR this season behind Rory McIlroy (20 years, 11 months, 28 days).

• Day is the 30th youngest player to ever win a PGA TOUR event. He is two months younger than Phil Mickelson was when he won his first event as a professional. Mickelson also won a TOUR event as an amateur at age 20.

• Day, who made his inaugural appearance at the TPC Four Seasons Resort this week, is the youngest winner in Nationwide Tour history. Youngest winners:
PGA TOUR -- 19 years, 10 months, 14 days, Johnny McDermott, 1911 U.S. Open
Nationwide Tour -- 19 years, 7 months, 26 days, Jason Day, 2007 Legend Financial Group Classic

• Day joins Rory McIlroy as the only winners 22-years-old and younger on TOUR this season. There have been eight seasons in TOUR history where there have been multiple wins in the same season by players 22-years-old or younger, the last was in 2001.

2010: Jason Day and Rory McIlroy
2001: David Gossett and Sergio Garcia (2 events)
1997: Tiger Woods (4 events)
1996: Tiger Woods (2 events)
1990: Robert Gamez (2 events)
1976: Jerry Pate (2 events)
1928: Horton Smith (2 events)
1922: Gene Sarazen (2 events)

• Day is the ninth winner on TOUR this season in his 20s. There were seven winners in their 20s last season, 15 during the 2008 season and seven in 2007.

• Day wins in his 66th event on the PGA TOUR. It is his fifth top 10 and 19th top 25 on TOUR.

• Day is the youngest winner of the HP Byron Nelson Championship since Tiger Woods won in 1997 at the age of 21.

• Players in their 20s have won three of the last four tournaments on the PGA TOUR (Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott and Jason Day).

• Day and Scott are the second back-to-back winners in their 20s this season on TOUR. Hunter Mahan (Waste Management Phoenix Open) and Camilo Villegas (Honda Classic) also won back-to-back earlier this year.

• Day, a 22-year-old resident of Fort Worth, Texas, has posted all four of his top-25 finishes in his last six starts on TOUR, finishing T25 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, T22 at the Verizon Heritage, T22 at the Quail Hollow Championship and 1st at the HP Byron Nelson Championship.

• Day's only other 54-hole lead/co-lead came at the 2009 Puerto Rico Open, where a final-round 71 led to a T2.

• Dating to 2000, Day is the seventh international winner of the HP Byron Nelson Championship.

• Ben Hogan has the highest final round by a winner when he recorded a 73 in 1946. With Day's 72 today, there have been 19 winners in tournament history that have recorded a final round in the 70s. Adam Scott was the last in 2008 (71).

• Blake Adams came close to becoming the first rookie to ever win the HP Byron Nelson Championship.

• Adams has made eight of 14 cuts on TOUR this season. Adams is ranked third among rookies with 416 FedExCup points. Overall, Adams moves from 116th in the FedExCup standings to 53rd with his T2 at the HP Byron Nelson Championship. Adams' only other top 10 this season was at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (T10).

• Brian Gay's 63 was the best round of the day by three strokes.

• At 16 years, 9 months and 24 days, U.S. Junior Amateur Champion Jordan Spieth is the sixth youngest player in TOUR history to make a cut. Spieth is a junior at Jesuit College Preparatory School in Dallas and has signed a letter of intent to play golf at the University of Texas. The list includes:

15 years, 8 months, 20 days, Bob Panasik, 1957 Canadian Open (T66)
16 years, 4 days, Tadd Fujikawa, 2007 Sony Open in Hawaii (T20)
16 years, 2 months, 23 days, Justin Thomas, 2009 Wyndham Championship (T78)
16 years, 2 months, 29 days, Matteo Manassero, 2009 British Open (T13)
16 years, 9 months, 7 days, Ty Tryon, 2001 Honda Classic (T39)
16 years, 9 months, 24 days, Jordan Spieth, 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship (TBA)
16 years, 11 months, 21 days, Matteo Manassero, 2010 Masters Tournament (T36)

• With his T16 finish, Spieth would have earned $91,185.71 had he played as a professional.

• Tom Pernice Jr. finished T7. The 50-year-old Pernice is the oldest player in the field. On Saturday, he was paired with the youngest, 16-year-old Jordan Spieth. On Sunday, Spieth was paired with Corey Pavin, the second-oldest player left in the field this week and captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team. Spieth shot a 2-over to finish T16 and Pavin shot a 3-over to finish T23.

• Defending champion Rory Sabbatini finished T43 in his attempt to become the first repeat winner of the HP Byron Nelson Championship since Tom Watson won three in a row from 1978-80.

• 2007 HP Byron Nelson Championship winner Scott Verplank (T5) made his 24th start at the tournament. Just three players have made more starts (28 - Lanny Wadkins and Tom Watson; 27 -- Ben Crenshaw).

• Dallas, Texas native and resident Matt Weibring finished T48. He is making his third start at the event, missing the cut in 2005 and T52 in 2009. Weibring's dad, D.A., spearheaded the $10 million redesign of the TPC Four Seasons prior to the 2008 tournament. The elder Weibring played in the tournament 22 times, with runner-up finishes in 1993 and 1995.

• Bogey-free rounds

R1 -- Michael Sim (66), Nathan Green (67)
R2 -- Cameron Beckman (61), Blake Adams (64), Jason Day (65), Alex Cejka (66), Tom Pernice Jr. (68), Chris Riley (64), Jeff Overton (65), Chad Collins (68)
R3 -- Arjun Atwal (64), Gary Woodland (65), Brett Wetterich (67)
R4 -- Brian Gay (63), Cameron Beckman (68)

• Scoring Averages at the par-70 TPC Four Seasons Resort:

• The par-4, 18th hole played the toughest this week, yielding a 4.272 average. The par-5 seventh hole was the easiest with a 4.553 average.

• Below are the youngest winners in the history of the PGA TOUR: