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Tiger Woods Golf

Tiger Woods adds to an already storied carrier ( below ) After a difficult first two days at the season's final major championship, Tiger Woods began the third and fourth rounds with bogeys. Sunday found him carding bogey 5s on hole Nos. 1 and 3.
However, the world's top-ranked player showed his resiliency and patience by eliminating any missteps going forward, registering only pars and birdies the rest of the way. Finishing at 2 under, he has once again moved into the top five.
Tiger Woods Kept streak of top-10s intact at the Mercedes Championships with a T3 despite 122 putts on the week. Tiger Finished two strokes behind Stuart Appleby. In eight starts at the Mercedes Woods, has two wins and eight top-10 finishes. Tieger led field in Driving Distance at 298.6 yards and hit 71.7 percent of fairways Tiger's marked improvement over 2004 performance where he finished 182nd on TOUR at 56.1 percent...Picked up his first win in a TOUR stroke-play event since October 2003 (WGC-American Express Championship) with a three-stroke victory over Luke Donald, Charles Howell III and Tom Lehman. It was the third time he won the San Diego-area tournament (1999, 2003) and it marked the 10th consecutive season that Woods has captured at least one victory, the longest active streak on TOUR. Due to fog delays throughout the four-day event, played 31 holes on Sunday and came from one-stroke back through 54 holes to post the ninth come-from-behind win of his career. Moved to Number 1 on the money list for the first time since the end of the 2003 season...Tiger Took over as World No. 1 for the first time since the week of August 30, 2004 by defeating Phil Mickelson by a stroke at the Ford Championship at Doral. Paired with Mickelson in the final round for just the third time in his career, began the day two strokes behind. Caught up to Mickelson at the turn and took a two-stroke lead after an eagle on the par-5 12th hole. Mickelson birdied the next two and both bogeyed the 16th to remain tied with two holes to play. Birdied the 17th hole and when Mickelson's chip on No. 18 lipped out, earned the 42nd victory of his career. Set tournament record with a 24-under 264, breaking the old mark by one and tied his career-best mark of 27 birdies (1997 AT T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am). Rounds of 63-69--129 on the weekend were the lowest by a champion in the 44-year history of the tournament. The come-from-behind victory was the 10th of his career and the 22nd different tournament...Claimed fourth Masters Tournament title at the age of 29 years, three months and 10 days with sudden-death playoff victory over Chris DiMarco. Tiger Woods Tied Arnold Palmer for second-most Masters victories with four, two behind Jack Nicklaus. Tigers Ninth career major professional championship, tied with Ben Hogan and Gary Player for third-most all-time behind Nicklaus (18) and Walter Hagen (11). Recovered from a first-round 2-over-par 74 Woods took the 54-hole lead by three over DiMarco with rounds of 66-65. During that stretch of the third round, posted seven straight birdies (Nos. 7-13), matching Steve Pate's 1999 record birdie streak at Augusta National. Final round included chip-in on par-3 16th hole from left of the green that extended lead to two strokes and bogeys on two closing holes for a 1-under-par 71, tied with DiMarco at 12-under-par 276 total. Rolled in 15-foot birdie putt on first playoff hole to earn Green Jacket and re-claim the No. 1 position in the Official World Golf Ranking. 7-1 in playoffs in PGA TOUR career, including 2-0 in majors. 9-0 when holding at least a share of the 54-hole lead in major championships...PGA TOUR record of consecutive cuts made that started at the 1998 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ended at 142 when he made an early exit at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. Woods finished 36 holes at 1-over 141 in Dallas, TX and missed the cut by one stroke...Posted back-to-back runner-up finshes in his next two starts at the U.S. Open and Cialis Western Open, finishing two back in both. The runner-up at the U.S. Open was just his second in 40 major starts, while the one at the Western was his third straight at Cog Hill G&CC and sixth in 10 starts at the tournament where he is the all-time money leader with more than $2.4 million. His $540,000 check allowed him to become the first player in TOUR history to surpass $50 million in career earnings.
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