Verizon Heritage Notebook

Sunday contenders Jim Furyk and Stewart Cink each ran into trouble on the back nine within sight of each other.

Furyk, playing the par-4 13th, hit his approach shot short of the green, up against the cypress-plank facing of a wrap-around bunker. With almost no room for a follow-through, Furyk rammed his bunker shot into the wood facing, and the ball popped into the air and on to the green, 6 feet from the pin. He then made his putt to save par.

Playing a group ahead, Cink hit his tee shot on the par-3 14th into a deep pot bunker left of the green. With a steep bank to clear and a pond on the opposite side of the green, Cink played his bunker shot sideways and still nearly rolled it into the lagoon, the ball stopping only when it bounded against the top of a railroad tie bulkhead.

Cink didn't recover nearly as well from his run-in with wood -- he took a double bogey on the hole.

TRAHAN FINISHES STRONG

Former Hilton Head Island resident D.J. Trahan, whose father Don is the former director of instruction at Harbour Town Golf Links, posted a career-best Heritage round of 66, and it led to his best career finish, a tie for 17th. (Trahan's previous bests were a second-round 69 in 2006, the year he tied for 27th.)

It was a good finish for another former Clemson golfer -- Lucas Glover, the 36-hole leader, slumped over the weekend but still finished tied for seventh, his first top-10 at Harbour Town. He shot even-par 71 on Sunday.

Jonathan Byrd, also a former Clemson standout, backpedaled over the weekend, as well, shooting a 74 Sunday and tying for 36th after starting the day tied for 14th.

University of South Carolina graduate Brett Quigley shot his second consecutive 74 and tied for 61st.

IN THE CLEAR

With his sixth-place finish, and the accompanying $198,000 payday, Jason Bohn secured his PGA Tour status for the remainder of the season. Bohn entered the season playing on a major medical extension and had 12 events to earn at least $257,668. It turns out he needed only seven starts to reach that threshold; he has earned $333,693 this season.

LOVE FALTERS ON BACK NINE

Five-time champion and first-round tri-leader Davis Love III was in line for his first top 10 on the PGA Tour since last August. But he had a disastrous finish to his final round, shooting a 5-over 41 on the back nine that dropped him from ninth to a tie for 36th.

Love made bogeys on the 10th, 12th and 13th holes, then took a double at the par-4 No. 14, where he hit his tee shot in the water, took a drop and then three-putted from 44 feet.

The 76 was his highest round at the Heritage since the second round of 1993, when the missed the cut as a two-time defending champion.

THIS AND THAT

Englishman Nick Dougherty, who was tied for 10th at 6 under after three rounds, withdrew from the Heritage before Sunday's final round because of an illness in the family. ... Boo Weekley's three-shot margin of victory was the largest at the Heritage since Love won by seven in 1998. ... Weekley signed lots of autographs after his victory Sunday, but perhaps the most unusual object he signed was a golf cart. The cart was donated by Club Car and Marty Holmes, and was auctioned away on April 5 at the Midlands Heart Ball. Proceeds benefit the American Heart Association. The cart had been driven all week by tournament director Steve Wilmot.

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