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NOTES ON THE FIELDNO THREES FOR GENTLE BEN: Ben Crenshaw has the best streak without a three-putt in 2009 – 205 holes.FATHER TIME HAS NOTHING ON THESE GUYS: Gil Morgan, Tom Jenkins and Bruce Fleisher continue to defyFather Time. The three 60+ year-olds are all currently ranked in the top 30 on the money list. The 62-year-old Morganis 21st in 2009 earnings with $444,184, while the 61-year-old Jenkins is 22nd with $437,158. Fleisher, who is 60,ranks 28th with $351,391.LARGEST MARGIN OF VICTORY: Both Bernhard Langer (Triton Financial Classic) and Fred Funk (U.S. SeniorOpen) won events by six shots this year, the largest winning margin in 2009.PLAYER SPOTLIGHTS (expected to compete):Fred Funk – Has moved into the lead in the Charles Schwab Cup race after recent victory at the U.S. Senior Open,his first of the 2009 campaign…Prior to win at Crooked Stick, had lost in a playoff at the Senior British Open and alsosuffered playoff loss at The Principal Charity Classic…Finished T30 at last year’s Boeing Classic.Tom Kite – Has won eight of his 10 Champions Tour victories in the western part of the United States…Is trying towin the same event three times in his career and become the first player since Jim Thorpe (2003, 2006, 2007Charles Schwab Cup Championship) to do so….Kite never won the same event more than twice on the PGA TOUR(BellSouth Classic, Nestle Invitational, Infiniti Tournament of Champions).Loren Roberts – Captured his second Senior British Open title in four years when he defeated both Mark McNultyand Fred Funk in a playoff at Sunningdale in England…Win was his second in 2009 (ACE Group Classic) and movedhim into third place in the current Charles Schwab Cup standings…Posted a final-round 64 at the recent U.S. SeniorOpen and finished T4…Last appearance at the Boeing Classic was in 2007 when he finished T54 at TPC SnoqualmieRidge.Keith Fergus – Joins Bernhard Langer and Loren Roberts as the only players on the 2009 Champions Tour withmultiple titles (Cap Cana Championship, Regions Charity Classic)…Lost in a playoff to Tom Kite at TPC SnoqualmieRidge in 2006 and has run off 12 straight sub-par rounds in 12 starts at this tournament.Peter Jacobsen – Is back healthy on the Champions Tour and is scheduled to make his first appearance in theSeattle event since 2005. Has suffered right knee (2008), lower back (2007) and left hip (2006) injuries over the lastthree years that have kept him out of action during the latter part of each of the previous three seasons. Finished T20at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge in 2005, but played in just one other event that year after suffering torn cartilage in his rightknee.52