Round 4: Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial

Scott Verplank is from Dallas, so the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial and HP Byron Nelson Championship are very meaningful events for him. His record at the two events is very different, though.

Verplank has six top-10s at the HP Byron Nelson Championship, including a win in 2007 and a tie for fifth last week. When he closed with a 65 on Sunday, though, to tie for fifth, it marked just his second top-10 in 21 starts at Colonial.

"Fortunately my last three tournaments I’ve kind of turned things around and really starting to play and hit the ball pretty good," said Verplank, who started that streak with a tie for 13th at THE PLAYERS Championship.

"I’m hoping that I’ll just keep going. The next tournament I’m going to play in is the U.S. Open.  So, hopefully, I will be good and rested for that, drive the ball in the fairway, hit a lot of greens and maybe I will have a shot." 

Verplank didn’t make a bogey on Sunday. In fact, he played his final 35 holes without dropping a shot to par. He hit 12 of 14 fairways and 15 of 18 greens in the final round, as well.

"I made a couple of long putts on the front nine, and honestly I had a lot of great chances on the back nine," Verplank said. "I made a putt up the hill on 9 which you don’t expect, and I made about a 20-footer on 7 which normally you don’t expect.  But I had it in there close. 

"If I would have really, really been hot, as hot as I was yesterday with the putter, I obviously could have had a career round. I had a lot of good putts. I had a lip out on the last hole. Somehow it missed. That’s the way it goes sometimes."