Woods And Matthews Wins Open

By Author: Sarfaraz Khan
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Tiger Woods has showed that he is now back on form as he won the Buick Open title. He won by a massive three shots at Warwick Hills and it has left him eager for more.

In the final round he was one shot ahead of the pack and he birdied the fourth, seventh and 16th holes. He later parred the rest for a three under 69. He finished the tournament on an incredible 20 under par and is now firmly in place at the World number one top spot!

Roland Thatcher had a great final round with a 64 and had a fantastic eight birdies to take a tied second place with Greg Chalmers and John Senden. Michael Letzig had a disappointing final round when he was one shot behind Woods and had a final round of 73.

This was Woods' 69th PGA win and there are only two other people who have won more. Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus have both won more and Tiger looks as if he wants to chase the title.

At one point there was some concern as Woods change golf clubs to hit his ball into the green protecting lake on the 13th. However this was a par five and he later put a wedge ...
... to four feet to save this could be disastrous hole. Letzig was playing with Woods and had a bad final round with a double bogey at the par three eighth.
The Ricoh British Women's Open was won by Catriona Matthew at Royal Lytham and St. Annes this week. Matthews, 39, led overnight by three shots and retained this lead in the final round against Karrie Webb.

Australia's Karrie Webb was closely following Matthews as she closed with a four under par 68 to finish level. In joint third was Paula Creamer, Christina Kim, Ai Miyazato and Hee-Won.

Matthews gave birth to her second child only 11 weeks ago and has made a remarkable recovery. She is the fourth Briton to win a major and the first since Karen Stupples triumphed at the Womens British Open in 2004.
"There have been times when I've wondered if I was ever going to win a major. I though time was beginning to run out." She said.

Matthews did not have the best of starts to her round after she bogeyed the 1st and 3rd however was more stable after six successive pars before letting another shot slide away at the tenth. Webb was hot on her toes as she eagled 15 and birdied 16.

However Matthews proved the finer player as she recovered to sink a trio of birdies including a huge 45 foot putt on the 14th. "That putt on 14 really steadied me. I didn't play well but I hung in there. I can't quite believe it. It hasn't sunk in yet. Coming up the last I had tears in my eyes and I had to hold myself together for those last two putts."
Last years winner Jiyai Shin began four shots away from the winner and was never in contention after dropping a couple of shots.