 | FINAL LEADERBOARD (US unless stated) -10 T Woods, J Daly -8 C Montgomerie (Sco), S Garcia (Sp), H Stenson (Swe) -5 D Howell (Eng), G McDowell (NI), V Singh (Fij), D Toms -4 S Ames (Can) |
World number one Tiger Woods admitted he would rather have won the WGC American Express in a different manner. Woods secured victory on the second extra hole when Daly missed a return putt from less than three feet.
"The last thing you want to see is that happen," Woods said. "It shouldn't end like that. I just felt so bad because he played so well all week."
Daly said: "I know Tiger didn't want to win that way and I certainly didn't want to lose that way."
Woods, who began the final day two shots behind Daly, was expecting to go on to the third play-off hole.
"We should be going to 17, it would have been fun for both of us," he said.
"I feel so bad for JD. You never want to win a golf tournament that way, you want to go out and earn it. He was the man to catch and I was just fortunate to get into a playoff."
Daly, never one to take longer than necessary, missed on the left edge with his par putt on the 16th, the second extra hole.
"I played that putt straight and it went dead left," he said.
"If anything, I thought it would have gone right. I may have pulled it, I don't know.
"It's been a horrible putting year, and when you don't have a lot of confidence with your putter, especially when you have a chance to win, instead of feeling you're going to make them, I didn't feel I was going to make them.
"I was feeling the heat a bit more than him. You just hate to lose that way."