Golf Golf Roundup Tough task awaits Woods this morning Seattle Times Newspaper
8212; Tiger Woods' unbeaten streak lives another day. Barring a spectacular comeback, it will be over soon. Geoff Ogilvy got to 17 under par through nine holes and held a two-shot lead over Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh at the soggy CA Championship, which won't finish until today because of a three-hour weather delay during the final round.
Furyk was at 15 under through 10 holes Sunday, while Singh played nine holes. Retief Goosen and Graeme Storm were three shots behind and Steve Stricker made a huge charge, shooting a final-round 63 to finish at 13 under, four shots behind Ogilvy and tied with Adam Scott and Soren Kjeldsen. Play was scheduled to resume today at 5:30 a.m. PDT and Golf Channel will show the event. Much of the attention will be on the top-ranked Woods & 8212; who was five back with seven holes remaining.
In his own mind, he probably still thinks he has a chance and I'm sure we've seen him do crazy things before," Ogilvy said. But Jim and Vijay have won a fair-few tournaments and Adam's won a fair-few tournaments.. He doesn't have to only catch me." World Golf Championships events are some of Woods' favorites, given his 15 victories in 26 previous WGC attempts entering last week. But somehow, on the Blue Monster course at Doral, he has looked mortal.
He hasn't lost to anyone in more than six months, yet when play was halted, Woods was tied for ninth place. Ogilvy's last victory was in the 2006 U.S. Open.
Woods missed the cut that summer at Winged Foot and has been on a tear since, winning 16 of his last 26 official PGA Tour events and carrying winning streaks of seven consecutive appearances worldwide and five tournaments on Tour into the tournament at Doral, a place where he has prevailed in each of the past three years. Unless Woods pulls off a stirring comeback, all those streaks will end, meaning he will be a winner in merely nine of his past 11 events worldwide heading into the Masters, which starts April 10 in Augusta, Ga.
Ogilvy's bogey-free streak ended after 60 holes, when he left a 35-foot par putt short on the seventh hole. He was forced to scramble at times and said he was exhausted. It's a good leaderboard," Ogilvy said. That's what the whole point of these golf tournaments was, I guess, to get fields like this, get everyone playing each other.
I guess the idea is to have everyone have a chance with nine holes to play or 18 holes to play." Woods' chances took a serious hit in the third round, when every other contender seemed to go on birdie sprees while he remained stuck in the Doral mud. Singh and Storm shot 63s, Goosen and Furyk had 64s, but Woods had a third-round 72.
It's official: Kraft wins RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico & 8212; Greg Kraft won the inaugural Puerto Rico Open for his first official PGA Tour victory, closing with a 2-under 70 for a one-stroke victory over Bo Van Pelt and Jerry Kelly.
Kraft, who won the unofficial Deposit Guaranty Classic in Mississippi 15 years ago, had a 14-under 274 total on the Trump International Golf Club course. Kelly, at No. 63 the highest-ranked player in the field, shot a 70 and Van Pelt had a 72. Kraft earned $630,000 for the victory. I wish I could describe how I feel," he said. Maybe justice." Kraft, 43, secured PGA Tour playing privileges through 2010.
I don't have to play the Nationwide Tour to get my card back," he said. That's no fun, to go out there and starve." Other tournament & 8226; Scotland's Alastair Forsyth overcame a five-stroke deficit in regulation and beat South Africa's Hennie Otto with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff in the Madeira Islands Open in Santo da Serra.
Forsyth birdied the 18th hole for a 5-under 67 to match Otto (72) at 15-under 273. Forsyth birdied the par-4 18th again in the playoff for his first European Tour victory since the 2002 Malaysian Open.
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