Notebook: Round 3, Regions Charity Classic

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Weather: Cloudy and warm with occasional showers. The highs reached the low 80s. Winds were from the S at 5-10 mph.

Final Regions Charity Classic Leaderboard: 1 -- Dan Forsman (196/-20); T2 -- Joe Ozaki & Peter Senior (199/-17); 4 -- David Peoples (201/-15); T5 -- Jeff Sluman & Bobby Clampett (202/-14).

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Leaderboard: Round 3
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Forsman wins by three

• Dan Forsman showed no letup after a tournament-record 10-under-par 62 on Saturday, firing a 6-under-par 30 on the front to open up a three-shot lead at the turn. He pushed his lead to five strokes with successive birdies on Nos. 10 and 11 and was never threatened after that. He closed with a 6-under-par 66, matching the day's best round.

• With his victory, Forsman wins for the second time on the Champions Tour. He also won the 2009 AT&T Champions Classic in Valencia, CA where he defeated Don Pooley in a one-hole playoff. Forsman also won five times on the PGA TOUR.

• Forsman's 54-hole total of 20-under-par 196 marked the sixth time this year an event has been won with a sub-200 total. That happened just five times in 2009.

• Forsman collects a check for $255,000, the largest of his Champions Tour career and increases his 2010 earnings to $561,284 (3rd on money list).

• Forsman earned 255 points in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup race and moves into third place in the standings with 466 points. Fred Couples leads with 1,015 points followed by Bernhard Langer (818 points). Nick Price (437) and Tom Watson (407) are fourth and fifth, respectively.

• Forsman became the 18thdifferent winner in the 19-year history of the event.

• Peter Senior (T2) played all 54 holes without a bogey, becoming the third player in tournament history to do so and the first in an individual stroke-play event since Fred Funk at the 2007 Turtle Bay Championship. Nick Price and Mark O'Meara played all 54 holes in this year's Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf bogey free, but that was a better-ball event. Senior is the ninth player in Champions Tour history to play a blemish-free tournament and not win the event. George Archer was bogey free here in 1994 (T5) as was Brad Bryant in 2006 (won).

• Senior's T2 finish was his best showing in an event in the U.S. since he was T2 at the 1990 International.

• Bobby Clampett's T5 finish earned him a spot in the Principal Charity Classic due to his top-10 finish. Clampett led all players with 20 birdies, including 10 on the 12 par-5 holes he played in the tournament.

• Joe Ozaki's T2 finish was his best finish in a Champions Tour event since he was T2 at the 2007 Boeing Classic.

• Bill Glasson finished T31 in his Champions Tour debut.

• David Peoples' fourth-place finish marked the second consecutive event he finished in that position. He was T4 at the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic two weeks ago. Peoples has now posted four top-10 finishes in five starts this year. He was T9 at the Toshiba Classic and ninth at The Cap Cana Championship. He's earned $269,508 and is currently 20th on the money list.

• Open qualifier Jay Don Blake finished T7, the second time he had posted a top-10 finish as an open qualifier this year. He was T9 at the Allianz Championship.

• After back-to-back scoring averages in the 60s (69.519 & 69.883), the scoring average jumped to 70.675 on Sunday. Overall, the field averaged 70.026 for the tournament. the lowest average in event history.

• Defending champion Keith Fergus finished T47.

• Ken Green's comments after playing in his first individual stroke-play event since the Triton Financial Classic on June 7, 2009.

"I'm pretty happy with the week. This is a tough course with the different lies you can get here. This is my first individual tournament in awhile where every shot counts. The one thing I have to keep remembering is it seems like it's been an eternity, but it's only been 11 months. I've done very little in terms of golf. It's definitely a home run for me. I got through the week. I hit a lot of good shots and some bad ones. I'm happy with it. It's encouraging that there is some hope that I can go out there and play some good golf. The support has been unbelievable. I can tell you how much it means to me when people come up to me and tell me that I'm an inspiration to them and that my story is wonderful. That gives me so much joy and happiness. It's been a pretty tough time. When people come up and give me a boost of energy and love, it makes me feel good. The players have been wonderful. I was a little worried. I thought they would wonder why I'm playing, that I really shouldn't be out here because I'm not playing good enough. They've been just the opposite. I misread the reception of the players and I'm glad I did. They've all said it's wonderful for me to be out here, go ahead and play, it doesn't matter what you shoot, you're playing golf again. I'll probably take a few weeks off and wait for the Dick's Sporting Goods Open in Binghamton."