71.   Duval, who has four tournament wins this year, said he needed a mental break and took the last two tour events off.

72.   Englishman Nick Faldo was in Switzerland, missing the cut at a European tour event for the first time in four years.

73.   For Jack Nicklaus, it might just have been his last Sunday playing in a regular tour event.

74.   He did win back-to-back European tour events in Malaysia and Singapore in February.

75.   He has never led a European tour event before.

76.   He has played in four European tour events this year on amateur invitations.

77.   He started Friday three shots off the lead of Michael Allen in the third Nike tour event of the season.

78.   He said Valencia, a tour event for the first time, is a good course, but wondered about the tricky putting surfaces.

79.   He sits atop a nondescript leaderboard at the final tour event of the season.

80.   He will meet top-seeded Marcelo Rios of Chile in the final of the ATP tour event on Sunday.