Tiger Woods wins Farmers Insurance Open Title
Despite a few nervy moments towards the end of his round, Tiger Woods wrapped up his 75th PGA Tour career success as he won the Farmers Insurance Open by four shots.
The 37-year-old’s eighth triumph at Torrey Pines equals the PGA record for the number of wins at a single course.
The week’s event had been forced into a fifth day after thick fog delayed play on Saturday. Woods got his final round off to an excellent start on Sunday, carding birdies at the third, fourth and sixth holes, and resumed on Monday in solid fashion, reaching the turn in 33.
A birdie followed at the 13th as he calmly two-putted from 52 feet, but having earlier dug himself out of trouble a couple of times after some wayward play from the tee, he bogeyed 14 and double-bogeyed 15 to reduce his lead from eight shots to five.
Despite his troubles, Woods finished well clear on 14-under and has now moved to within seven wins of Sam Snead’s all-time PGA Tour record of 82.
Afterwards Woods said: “It got a little ugly towards the end and I started losing my patience with the slow play and kind of lost my concentration there a little bit”
“But I got it back on 18, I knew I needed to grind it out and played a three-shot hole and made my par and got the tournament.
