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Records, stats and surgeries
Tiger Woods won't be able to match Byron Nelson's record of 18 wins in a season -- at least in the year 2000 -- but he might be able to achieve the same phenomenal rate of victory. Woods is expected to play in three more PGA Tour events this year, and if he wins them all, it will give him 12 victories in 20 events, a winning percentage of .600. That's the same all-time record percentage Nelson attained in 1945, when he won 18 of the 30 official events he entered.
Scrambling at the topHere's a stat that should tell you something about the importance of the short game. The No. 1 and 2 players on the World Ranking -- Woods and Ernie Els -- are tied for first in the PGA Tour's scrambling category, which measures how often a player saves par or better after missing a green in regulation. Woods and Els this year are each doing it 66.9 percent of the time.
Parnevik undergoes surgeryThe latest PGA Tour player to undergo hip surgery is Jesper Parnevik. In June, Greg Norman went under the knife for a tear in his right hip, while Steve Elkington's left hip was operated on in August.All three golfers employ powerful lower body rotation in their swings, indicating that the stresses of the modern golf swing are sometimes more than a body can handle -- even one that undergoes a rigorous fitness regime.
Senior Tour winning streaksThe Senior Tour is being simultaneously scorched by two of the hottest players in its history. Larry Nelson, the tour's leading money winner who has won four of his last five events, is riding a Senior Tour record streak of 29 rounds of par or better. Meanwhile, Gil Morgan has a string of 27 straight under par rounds that also broke the former record of 26, which he held.
Kane on a rollAfter six winless years on the LPGA tour and nine second-place finishes, Lori Kane suddenly has two victories in the last two months.The difference has been in her finish. Before her victories, Kane's final rounds on the three occasions when she held or shared the lead were 71, 73 and 74. In her two victories, she closed with solid 68s. Sports Illustrated senior writer Jaime Diaz covers the golf beat for the magazine and appears on CNN's "Sports Illustrated Golf Plus" show.
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