That's as low as it gets

Champagne has been the traditional beverage of champions once the winner's check is awarded at the 3M Championship. However, that drink is not among the four varieties currently in production by David Frost Wines.

"Too time-consuming," the company's namesake said.

So after winning the Champions Tour event in record-setting fashion Sunday, Frost instead shared a well-deserved 1997 cabernet sauvignon toast with tournament staff.

He had plenty to celebrate. This day has been a long time coming.

"You never know when you're going to win so you just have to focus on every single shot as best you can," said Frost, whose last victory was the PGA Tour's Colonial Invitational the same year Sunday's celebratory bottle of cab was corked. "It's very easy to tell people, 'That's what it takes to win.' But the good players do that."

Tied with Mark Calcavecchia at 14 under par after two rounds, Frost began Sunday with two birdies and an eagle. He tied a 3M Championship record with a 7-under 29 on the front nine, and closed out a final-round 61 -- a 3M record -- by making a 25 foot eagle putt on the 18th hole that made him 25 under par.

That, too, is a tournament record, eclipsing R.W. Eaks' mark set in 2008 by two, and Frost's 191 strokes over 54 holes ties the all-time Champions Tour mark.

"The momentum of me playing well and Mark not playing well the first five, six holes" was the difference, Frost said.

Calcavecchia birdied the last to get to 18 under and in sole possession of second place, a spot he felt fortunate to be in.

"I'm glad I hung in there," Calcavecchia said. "I won the tournament within the tournament. Whether Frostie realizes it or not, it was pretty much over after about No. 6, or No. 7, whatever it was."

Calcavecchia could have been referencing either. Frost birdied both holes, the second getting him to 20 under for the tournament.

By that time, Calcavecchia had bogeyed twice and dropped seven shots behind.

"I don't do well in weather that hot," he said. "Three times on the front nine the club completely fell out of my hands. On a chip shot on the fifth hole, my right hand slipped completely off my grip on my flop shot. I wear sweatbands sometimes, and those weren't even helping."

It likely wouldn't have mattered much against Frost, who collected $262,500 for the victory and has now surpassed the $10 million mark in career earnings.

A 10-time winner on the PGA Tour, Frost has again found his groove since joining the Champions Tour last fall. In 19 events before this week, the native South African had eight top-10 finishes. He's been second twice, including to Tom Lehman in the Senior PGA Championship in May, losing in a three-man playoff.

There was no such drama needed for this one. En route to his rout in the 3M, Frost did not make a bogey. Sunday he hit every green and every fairway in regulation.

"It was a special day, finishing it off the way I did," Frost said. "And I wasn't even trying to make the putt at 18. The hole got in the way."