"There are a couple of things I thought were missing from my pedigree, " Kuchar said.
Kuchar finished behind Derek Brown whose 65-66 gave him a nine-under total of 131.
Compatriot Matt Kuchar also shot 70 to finish one shot further back on five-under par.
Matt Kuchar's ball was blown off the tee before he could hit his opening tee shot.
By the time Nicklaus was done talking, Kuchar was making plans to go to Merion on Tuesday.
They finished in a tie for third place, at eight under, with Lee Westwood and Matt Kuchar.
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The 2009 Open champion Stewart Cink and Matt Kuchar will form the opposition for McIlroy and McDowell.
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Kuchar never looks as though he is under much stress, and for so much of Sunday, he wasn't.
Canadian Mike Weir and Americans Kenny Perry, Matt Kuchar and Jerry Kelly tied with Rose at five under.
World No. 11 Kuchar finished level with Josh Teater (69), Bob Estes (68) and Canada's Stephen Ames (70).
Stewart Cink and Matt Kuchar were together once more and were playing with Zach Johnson and Hunter Mahan.
Kuchar had to make a 5-foot par putt to keep the two-shot margin, and Chappell kept coming at him.
Defending Nelson champion Jason Dufner shot a 70 in a group with good friends Bradley and Matt Kuchar (69).
Kuchar held off a stern challenge from Mahan over the back nine to seal a 2 and 1 win.
Meanwhile, Matt Kuchar beat fellow American Hunter Mahan to clinch his first title of 2013 at the match play event.
Two other deliberate contenders this year are Justin Rose, who shot 70-71 for a three-under total, and Matt Kuchar at one-under-par.
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Kuchar finished at 12-under 276 and will be looked upon as one of the favorites in two weeks at the U.S. Open.
Not having Woods around didn't make the task any easier for Kuchar.
"I'm not sure I can explain how excited I am to have won this tournament, " Kuchar told the PGA Tour's official website.
Matt Kuchar (69) was three shots back, and Woods was right behind.
While still a student at Georgia Tech, Kuchar finished tied for 21st.
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Kuchar posted his second successive round of 70 to claim a two-shot lead from fellow Americans Kevin Chappell (68) and Kyle Stanley (73).
Kuchar punched his right arm into the air to punctuate the shot that got him within a stroke of Weekley for the lead.
South Korea-born Na, who is a naturalized American, collapsed with a closing 76 to finish tied for seventh -- five shots behind Kuchar.
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One stroke behind Woods and Briton Rose is a quartet of Americans -- Bo van Pelt, Steve Stricker, Matt Kuchar and Scott Piercy.
One former Silver Cup winner who looks poised to make a run at a more coveted piece of hardware this weekend is Matt Kuchar.
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Kuchar is in form after finishing second at last week's Crowne Plaza Invitational, while he won the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship in February.
At last year's event, no player ranked in the world top 20, apart from Luke Donald, finished within seven strokes of the winner, Matt Kuchar.
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