Sunday, August 05, 2007

NOBODY CAN HOLD THAT TIGER
AT FIRESTONE COUNTRY CLUB!

Tiger Woods has made another piece of history, becoming the first player in US PGA Tour history to win the same event three consecutive times on two separate occasions.
Woods came from a shot behind in Sunday's final round, carding a bogey-free five under par 65 (13 shots better than Paul Casey's Sunday score) to blow away the field in intermittent rain and win the WGC Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club.
Tiger finished at eight under 272, eight strokes ahead of overnight leader Rory Sabbatini (74) and England's Justin Rose (68).
It is Woods' sixth victory in the past eight times the World Golf Championships event have been played at Firestone - his first three victories came from 1999-2001.
He was fourth in 2002, when it was played in Seattle, before finishing tied fourth and tied second the following two years when it returned to Firestone. He has now won an impressive 14 times in 26 starts in WGC events.
Woods wasted little time taking the lead, with four birdies in the first six holes, and the back nine was little more than an exhibition as everyone else played for second.

HOW THEY FINISHED AT FIRESTONE
Par 280 (4 x 70)
272 Tiger Woods 68 70 69 65
280 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 67 67 72 74, Justin Rose (Eng) 69 72 71 68
281 Chris DiMarco 69 70 72 70, Peter Lonard (Aus) 70 70 73 68
282 Andres Romero (Arg) 71 71 69 71, Davis Love III 74 65 74 69, Tim Clark (Rsa) 71 70 72 69
283 Justin Leonard 73 67 71 72, Scott Verplank 70 68 73 72
284 Kenny Perry 69 69 71 75, Zach Johnson 71 65 76 72, KJ Choi (Kor) 71 73 69 71
285 Rodney Pampling (Aus) 71 73 74 67, Joe Durant 74 67 71 73, Arron Oberholser 68 74 72 71, Mark Calcavecchia 68 72 76 69, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 68 74 69 74, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 72 69 72 72
286 Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 70 74 67 75, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 71 77 71 67
287 Charley Hoffman 71 73 74 69, Anders Hansen (Den) 71 72 71 73, Hunter Mahan 67 73 71 76, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 75 73 70 69, Ernie Els (Rsa) 70 77 72 68, Luke Donald (Eng) 75 75 67 70, Lee Westwood (Eng) 68 71 79 69, Stephen Ames (Can) 71 73 71 72
288 John Rollins 73 75 68 72, Ian Poulter (Eng) 71 73 74 70, Richard Green (Aus) 73 73 68 74, Boo Weekley 68 78 70 72, Brett Wetterich 74 75 70 69, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 70 79 68 71
289 Adam Scott (Aus) 75 76 70 68, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 73 76 69 71, Mark Wilson 76 75 68 70
290 Paul McGinley (Irl) 72 74 73 71, Charles Howell III 72 76 70 72
291 Steve Stricker 70 73 76 72, J J Henry 73 69 74 75, Colin Montgomerie (Sco) 71 72 73 75, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 72 74 72 73
292 John Senden (Aus) 71 69 78 74
293 Phil Mickelson 74 72 74 73, Jerry Kelly 73 71 74 75, Michael Campbell (Nzl) 71 74 72 76, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 73 76 73 71, Shingo Katayama (Jpn) 71 73 75 74
294 Paul Casey (Eng) 67 73 76 78, Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 72 74 72 76, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 73 71 72 78, Troy Matteson 71 74 73 76, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 77 72 74 71
295 Vijay Singh (Fij) 74 72 75 74, Yong-eun Yang (Kor) 73 74 70 78, Woody Austin 74 77 68 76, Stewart Cink 79 67 76 73, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 72 72 75 76
296 Nick Watney 72 72 76 76, Vaughn Taylor 72 77 71 76, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 74 73 72 77, David Howell (Eng) 74 77 75 70, David Toms 76 74 71 75, Liang Wen Chong (Chn) 75 74 72 75
297 Mark Hensby (Aus) 73 71 79 74, Darren Clarke (NIrl) 70 76 76 75
298 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 76 72 72 78, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 73 76 74 75, Fred Funk 75 74 74 75, Graeme Storm (Eng) 75 72 76 75, Gregory Havret (Fra) 73 73 76 76
299 Paul Goydos 69 76 73 81, Brian Bateman 77 75 72 75
300 Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 71 77 77 75
302 Chad Campbell 73 73 77 79, Anton Haig (Rsa) 77 75 71 79, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 71 77 73 81
303 Ben Curtis 74 79 77 73
312 Robert Allenby (Aus) 76 74 82 80
314 Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spa) 77 80 78 79

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