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![]() | Sunday, 20 May, 2001, 16:09 GMT 17:09 UK Woods clinches German crown ![]() Romero was unable to compete with Woods Click here for leaderboard A final round of 66 helped Tiger Woods secure his second Deutsche Bank-SAP Open title with a four-shot victory at the St Leon Rot. Woods overcame the blow of breaking his favourite driver in practice on Saturday night to post a 22-under-par total, with Michael Campbell in second place on 18-under.
Woods said: "I knew the course was playing very difficult. I was just grinding my way out there to just put myself on the fairways and the greens. "My short game has felt good all week and I have been working on it and it felt really good." Having been 10 shots behind at halfway, Woods resumed one behind Argentina's Eduardo Romero thanks to Saturday's 63. The American hit two eagles, three birdies and one bogey in his final round for his 36th career win. Campbell, who had been seven clear of the field with 35 holes to play, regained top spot with an outward 34. But after matching Woods's birdies at the 11th and 12th, he was rocked by his rival's sublime shot on the 13th - one which required the edge of the hole to be repaired because he had pitched into it. Woods said: "I wanted to use a seven and just let it rip. No one did anything for a split second and all of a sudden it went nuts." Woods followed with a 12-foot birdie putt at the 15th to streak four shots clear. Driver drama He broke the only driver he had brought to Europe with him at the end of his post-third round practice session. The head of the club flew around 50m down the range. After some 60 telephone calls, a new shaft suiting Woods' needs was located two hours later. But it was too long when it was first fixed to the clubhead on Sunday morning and during re-fixing, it was broken. With no time to get another, the decision was then made to switch to one of the same make belonging to Australian Adam Scott.
His opening drive was a beauty. His iron finished 10 feet from the flag and in went the putt for his fourth eagle of the week. Romero hooked into some horrible rough, had to take a penalty drop and ran up a six to lose the lead. He was never to get it back. Defending champion Lee Westwood recorded the joint worst score of the day with his 77 and finished down on four under. Darren Clarke, six over during his second round and ready to go home, charged back to end the week nine under. Colin Montgomerie was 13 under on the eve of his bid for a record fifth successive Volvo PGA win at Wentworth. |
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