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Ogilvy snaps Woods' streak
Agence France Presse
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 25 - 03 - 2008

Australian Geoff Ogilvy parred his final nine holes on Monday, including a crucial chip-in at the 13th, to win the World Golf Championships CA Championship and end Tiger Woods' seven tournament win streak.
Darkness halted Sunday's storm-interrupted final round with Ogilvy needing to finish the back nine and Woods five off the pace with seven to play. While several rivals made it close, none could deny the 2006 US Open winner the win.
Ogilvy's final-round one-under par 71, including two birdies and a bogey on the front nine on Sunday, left him on 17-under par 271, one stroke ahead of Fiji's Vijay Singh, South African Retief Goosen and American Jim Furyk.
World number one Woods, who like the runner-up trio fired a final-round 68, settled for fifth on 273 with England's Graeme Storm, Aussie Nick O'Hern and American Steve Stricker next on 275. Woods saw the end of his seven-event worldwide win streak and his US PGA win streak of five. He had also won the past three years at Doral and the past three World Golf Championship events in a row.
It was the first event Woods has played without winning since a second-place effort last September in Boston at the Deutsche Bank Championship.
The pivotal moment for Ogilvy came at the par-3 13th when he botched his first chip and hammered his par chip directly into the hole. Had he missed, a bogey or worse awaited. Instead, he won the eight million-dollar event.
Ogilvy's chip-in kept him two strokes ahead of Singh and Goosen and three better than Woods.
Ogilvy had made only one bogey in his past 80 holes at Doral and the Aussie's consistency allowed him to approach the 18th green with a one-stroke lead on Furyk and Goosen in the clubhouse and playing partner Singh.
Singh began with a birdie at the 10th, fell back with bogeys at 13 and 14 but birdied the 16th and 17th to pull within a stroke of Ogilvy as they reached the 18th tee. As a slight drizzle began, Singh fired his approach into the short rough left of the green with a sinkable birdie chip to pull level. Ogilvy followed by reaching the green and leaving his birdie putt a foot short of the hole. Singh followed with a chip just inches short of the cup and each man tapped in to conclude the morning drama. __


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