Joe Ogilvie became the 10th consecutive U.S. Bank Championship winner to post four scores in the 60s. Ogilvie carded rounds of 67-63-69-67 to finish at 14-under-par 266. The last winner with a round in the 70s was Scott Hoch in 1997 (70 in the first round).

The come-from-behind win (after 54 holes) for Joe Ogilvie in 2007 was the first at the U.S. Bank Championship since 2001, when Shigeki Maruyama overcame the one-stroke lead held by Jeff Sluman to defeat Charles Howell III in a playoff. Since the tournament moved to Brown Deer Park in 1994, there have been six come-from-behind winners in 14 years. Ogilvie and Tim Clark trailed 54-hole leader Tim Herron by one stroke entering the final round last year.

Steve Flesch’s tie for fifth at the 2007 U.S. Bank Championship marked the highest finish by a left-handed player in the 40-year history of the U.S. Bank Championship. Russ Cochran’s tie for seventh in 2000 was the previous best by a lefty.

Jeff Sluman (tied for ninth a year ago) and Kenny Perry (tied for fifth in 2007) remain first and second on the U.S. Bank Championship all-time money list. Sluman earned $104,000 a year ago, while Perry picked up $140,500 to his total. Sluman has earned $1,660,363 in Milwaukee, while Perry has pocketed $1,422,857. Sluman, a Champions Tour member, is playing this week in Minnesota at the 3M Championship.

Nine players have earned their first PGA TOUR titles at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee. They are Dave Eichelberger (1971), Calvin Peete (1979), Mark O’Meara (1984), Jim Thorpe (1985), Jim Gallagher, Jr. (1990), Richard Zokol (1992), Billy Mayfair (1993), Shigeki Maruyama (2001) and Joe Ogilvie (2007).

Jeff Brehaut set a tournament record in 2007. Brehaut made four eagles—on four different holes.

A group of Wisconsin natives will be looking to win this tournament for the first time. Jerry Kelly, a Madison native, is making his 16th start. Kelly has four top-10s in the event, with runner-up finishes to Loren Roberts (1996) and Corey Pavin (2006). Mark Wilson (Menomonee Falls), J.P. Hayes (Appleton) and Skip Kendall (Milwaukee) are also in the field.

E NOTES FROM THE PGA TOUR

PGA TOUR

• With his victory last week at the John Deere Classic, Kenny Perry became the oldest player (47 years, 11 months and 3 days) in TOUR history to win three events in the same season. Julius Boros won three times in 1967, twice after turning 47. His final win that year came at age 47-3-8.

• More on Perry: He has 12 career victories on the PGA TOUR—nine of them since turning 40.

• If you want to win the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee, better plan on shooting four rounds in the 60s. The last 10 winners of the tournament have all posted four rounds in the 60s. You have to go back to Scott Hoch’s first-round 70 in 1997 to find a winner who didn’t stay in the 60s all week.

• Long hitters have not enjoyed a lot of success in the 14 years the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee has been played at Brown Deer Park. Only three of the 14 winners ranked among the Top 50 in Driving Distance in the season that they won while five of the winners ranked 161^st or worse. In fact, Corey Pavin won the 2006 tournament and was the shortest hitter on TOUR that year.

• In the 14 years the tournament has been played at Brown Deer Park, four players have won twice—Loren Roberts, Jeff Sluman, Carlos Franco and Scott Hoch.

• Jay Williamson and Brad Adamonis finished in a T2 last week at the John Deere Classic. Williamson not only earned a spot in this week’s British Open, he also climbed into 88^th place in FedExCup standings after leaping up 70 spots. Adamonis, who will be at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee this week, rose to 75^th on the FedExCup points list after gaining 60 spots.

• Tim Herron has had an interesting career at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee. In seven career starts at the event, Herron has finished second twice (2002, 2007) and third once (2001). In the other four starts he’s finished T71, T50 and missed the cut twice.

CHAMPIONS TOUR

• Five-time PGA TOUR winner Dan Forsman will make his Champions Tour debut this week at the 3M Championship. He warmed up for this appearance by finishing T72 last week at the John Deere Classic on the PGA TOUR.
  
• Bob Charles, who was recently elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame, has an amazing record this year. The 72-year old from New Zealand has shot his age at least one time in every event he’s played this year. He has two starts on the Champions Tour, five starts on the European Senior Tour and one on the European Tour.

• The Champions Tour is in Minnesota this week but don’t blame a number of players for thinking about the PGA TOUR stop in Milwaukee. No less than eight participants in this week’s 3M Championship are former winners in Milwaukee—Dave Eichelberger, Jeff Sluman and Dave Stockton each won twice while Jim Colbert, Jay Haas, Gary Hallberg, Morris Hatalsky and Jim Thorpe each won once.

NATIONWIDE TOUR

• This week’s Price Cutter Charity Championship in Springfield, MO, is one of four original events remaining on the Nationwide Tour schedule from the inaugural season of 1990. Tournaments in Knoxville, Wichita and Boise are the other original stops still on the schedule.

• Last week’s John Deere Classic was a good one for alumni of the Nationwide Tour. Nine of the 11 players who recorded Top-10 finishes were former Nationwide Tour players led by runners-up Brad Adamonis and Jay Williamson.

• The Nationwide Tour will be well represented at this week’s British Open with 36 former or current players in the field. Four alums have won the world’s oldest golf tournament—John Daly (1995), Tom Lehman (1996), David Duval (2001) and Ernie Els (2002).