Sunday notebook: Panama CLARO Championship

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WITH THIS VICTORY

• Mathew Goggin earns his third career title in 79 career starts on the Nationwide Tour

1999 Lehigh Valley Classic
1999 Omaha Classic
2011 Panama Claro Championship)

• Earns his first title in his first career start in this event
• Wins at the age of 36 years, 8 months, 14 days
• His victory comes 11 years, 6 months and 19 days since his last win on the Nationwide Tour, the third-longest time span between victories:

• Collects first-place check for $99,000
• Earns the 45th Nationwide Tour title by an Australian (25 different players)

MORE NOTES

• Jimmy Walker is the only player in Nationwide Tour history to win the first tournament of the year and also wind up No. 1 on the final money list. Walker won the inaugural BellSouth Panama Championship to open the 2004 season. Walker had two wins, two seconds and seven top-10 finishes to wind up No. 1 with $371,346.

• Tommy Biershenk's T4 finish is his first top-10 since a pair of T5 efforts in 2007. It's also his best week since a third-place at the 2002 Samsung Canadian PGA Championship.

• Sam Saunders, playing on sponsor's exemption, finished T10 this week -- his career best finish. Saunders fired a 7-under in the third round to move into contention. He shot a 1-over 71 today and wound up at 6-under 274. Saunders' previous best was a T15 at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am a few weeks ago.

• North Carolina's Elliot Gealy also carded a 71 today to wind up T10, his career-best effort on the Nationwide Tour. This was Gealy's 49th career start and his previous best was a T11 at the 2004 Chattanooga Classic.

• Scoring averages for the week: