Tiger Woods ends his PGA Tour winning drought at the Arnold Palmer Invitational – Golf News
Tiger Woods has finally recorded a victory on the PGA Tour after two and a half years to silence his critics who claimed that his career has come to an end.
Woods carded a two-under par 70 in the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational to successfully defend his third-day lead at the Bay Hill Golf Club in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, March 25, 2012.
It was his first victory, since his last one came in the 2009 BMW Championship, when he defeated Jim Furyk and Marc Leishman with a huge margin - eight strokes.
This time, Woods returned with a similar force and registered an impressive five-stroke margin victory over Graeme McDowell. Woods’ tournament score was 13-under par 275.
"It does feel good. It feels really good. It has been a lot of hard work," Woods said. "I am so thankful for a lot of people helping me along, they know who they are".
According to Woods, he is getting better with the passage of time. He came close to winning a number of tournaments.
Therefore, he continued to atone for the mistakes he made and a little extra hard work finally earned him a victory.
Woods said that a victory prior to the Masters Tournament will help him fight for his 15th major title of the career.
On the other hand, McDowell said that he really had a chance to win the tournament. However, his final two rounds did not go well, which forced him to stay five strokes short of the lead in the end.
In total, he lost six points in the final round because of the four bogeys and a double bogey that started from the very first hole on the final day.
Talking about Woods’ performance, he said, "He really just kind of nailed home his comeback. Great to have a front-row seat watching maybe the greatest of all time doing what he does best -- winning golf tournaments".
On the other hand, the host of the tournament, Arnold Palmer, had to leave the field after he had high blood pressure because of the medications. He was then hospitalised in order to keep his blood pressure stable.
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