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Ogilvy wins WGC-CA to end Woods's streak

Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:53pm IST
 
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By Simon Evans

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tiger Woods's winning streak was snapped on Monday when Australian Geoff Ogilvy kept his nerve to win the WGC-CA Championship.

Woods, who had won his last seven tournaments worldwide and had not lost a tournament since September, finished fifth, two shots behind Ogilvy.

Ogilvy finished on a 17-under-par total of 271 -- a shot ahead of South African Retief Goosen, American Jim Furyk and Fiji's Vijay Singh who were all tied for second place.

The 30-year-old Ogilvy had not won a PGA Tour event since his 2006 victory at the U.S Open.

The remaining holes of the competition were finished on Monday after weather disrupted Sunday's play and Singh and Furyk both blew chances to catch Ogilvy.

Singh bogeyed the 13th and 14th, chipping poorly on both, before recovering with two birdies. Furyk was unlucky to bogey the 14th with a 10-foot putt that came back out of the hole.

The luck went the other way for Ogilvy who saved par on the 13th with a 30 foot chip that would have gone well past the hole if it had not struck the flag.

"It was a pretty stellar looking leaderboard over those last nine holes, so it was very satisfying to beat those players and to win a big one. It was nice," said Ogilvy, who hit just one bogey in 72 holes at the event.  Continued...

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