Monday, August 09, 2010

Tiger Woods' worst yet - but still World No 1

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Tiger Woods suffered his worst tournament finish as a professional - but still held onto his position as world number one.
With Woods finishing joint 78th in the 80-man feld after a closing round of 77, Phil Mickelson knew he needed to finish fourth or better to move top of the world rankings.
The US Masters champion was joint 10th overnight and four shots off the lead, but endured a nightmare front nine of 41 to end his chances of ending Woods' five-year reign.
After finding a greenside bunker in two on the par-five second, Mickelson surprisingly thinned his recovery well over the green to run up a bogey six.
Worse was to come with a hat-trick of bogeys from the sixth followed by a double bogey six on the ninth, while yet more dropped shots on the 12th and 13th left Mickelson eight over par for the day and down in 47th place.
At three over par he was 14 shots off the lead shared by American duo Hunter Mahan and Sean O'Hair, who had played 10 and seven holes respectively.
Earlier in the day, Woods had carded three birdies, six bogeys and two double bogeys to finish 18 over par at Firestone, a venue where he had won on his previous four visits and a US Tour record seven times in all.
That set an unwanted record for the world number one's highest 72-hole score in relation to par, while his total of 298 was also his highest score through four rounds of his PGA Tour career.
Woods' previous worst finish as a professional in an event in which he played four rounds was a tie for 60th at the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open, his professional debut.
Speaking to reporters after his round, Woods said: "Shooting 18 over is no fun. It's tough. The only thing I can say is that all week I was patient. Unfortunately that's not enough."
FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4x70)
268 Hunter Mahan 71 67 66 64
270 Ryan Palmer 70 68 63 69
271 Retief Goosen (Rsa) 67 66 73 65, Bo Van Pelt 67 68 69 67
272 Sean O'Hair 67 70 64 71
273 Jeff Overton 67 70 67 69, Jim Furyk 72 68 69 64
274 Peter Hanson (Swe) 69 66 68 71
275 Steve Stricker 68 71 69 67, Rory McIlroy (NIrl) 68 69 69 69, Adam Scott (Aus) 66 70 72 67, Matt Kuchar 69 67 66 73, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 72 70 68 65, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 69 70 70 66
276 Dustin Johnson 72 65 68 71
277 Nick Watney 68 68 69 72, Martin Laird (Sco) 70 71 68 68, Ryan Moore 70 68 70 69
278 Kenny Perry 66 73 68 71, Justin Rose (Eng) 71 70 70 67, Stewart Cink 72 69 70 67
279 Graeme McDowell (NIrl) 66 73 68 72, Lucas Glover 70 66 70 73, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 70 70 69 70, Bubba Watson 64 71 70 74, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 71 67 68 73, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 72 67 69 71, Jason Day (Aus) 69 70 69 71, Justin Leonard 68 66 69 76, Ernie Els (Rsa) 69 70 64 76, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 67 70 73, Paul Casey (Eng) 68 68 73 70
280 Katsumasa Miyamoto (Jpn) 71 72 62 75, Bill Haas 73 66 71 70, Zach Johnson 70 70 71 69, Oliver Wilson (Eng) 71 67 67 75, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 71 68 67 74, Rickie Fowler 68 73 69 70
281 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 70 72 71 68, Ben Curtis 69 70 71 71, Heath Slocum 75 68 67 71, Scott Verplank 75 68 68 70, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 73 66 74 68
282 J.B. Holmes 74 72 69 67, Troy Matteson 72 70 69 71
283 Phil Mickelson 66 68 71 78, Chad Campbell 67 73 73 70, Ross Fisher (Eng) 70 68 74 71, K J Choi (Kor) 70 73 72 68, Boo Weekley 73 72 68 70, Luke Donald (Eng) 70 69 73 71, Y.E. Yang (Kor) 74 68 71 70
284 Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn) 71 73 72 68, Alexander Noren (Swe) 69 69 70 76
285 Mike Weir (Can) 72 69 72 72, Ross McGowan (Eng) 71 69 70 75, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 71 71 70 73
286 Ben Crane 71 70 72 73, Vijay Singh (Fij) 71 73 70 72, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 73 68 68 77, Tim Clark (Rsa) 70 72 75 69, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 72 72 68 74
287 James Kingston (Rsa) 75 65 71 76, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 74 72 70 71
289 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 71 74 73 71, Hennie Otto (Rsa) 73 72 72 72, Ian Poulter (Eng) 72 70 77 70, Jason Bohn 71 68 73 77
290 Yuta Ikeda (Jpn) 72 76 69 73, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 68 72 74 76
291 David Horsey (Eng) 73 71 75 72, Rhys Davies (Wal) 75 69 72 75, Camilo Villegas (Col) 75 73 71 72, Simon Dyson (Eng) 72 73 73 73
295 Soren Hansen (Den) 71 75 72 77
296 Anthony Kim 75 76 69 76, Simon Khan (Eng) 73 71 74 78
298 Tiger Woods 74 72 75 77, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 76 74 76 72
300 Henrik Stenson (Swe) 79 75 71 75

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