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Tiger Woods helps deliver Presidents Cup win – for 8th time
AFP | By By Jim Slater
Tiger Woods at the 18th hole – during the Presidents Cup golf tournament, October 6, 2013. PHOTO/Darron Cummings/AP
Tiger Woods ignored an aching back at the end of a marathon golf weekend Sunday to clinch a dramatic Presidents Cup victory for the United States over the Internationals.
Woods, the 14-time major champion scored the clinching point in an 18 1/2-15 1/2 triumph by edging South African Richard Sterne 1-up in singles at rain-soaked Muirfield Village, then said he has had enough of golf for a while.
Sterne took a bogey at 16 to put Woods 1-up and the US star halved the last two holes to win, knowing that singles matches before the Cup is clinched go extra holes to decide a winner.
“I wasn’t feeling my best coming down the stretch and happened to get a 1-up lead. I was just trying to hang onto that,” Woods said.
“I knew I wasn’t feeling good and if I happened to mess up 18 and we had to continue playing until it was decided – I was like, I really don’t want to play any more, just can I win, can I halve this last hole, and it ended up being that way.”
Heavy rain fell all four days of the event, playing havoc with the schedule and making the course a muddy slog for players while forcing Woods to play 31 holes over three matches Saturday and 27 holes on Sunday.
“It has been a long week for all of us,” Woods said. “Our physios did a hell of a job this week of keeping us out there and keeping us going, especially with all the starts and stops and so many holes – I’ve never played three matches in a day before.”
