Tiger Back

Tiger Back

The world number one,Tiger Woods, turned a one-shot 54-hole lead into a three-stroke victory over Roland Thatcher, John Senden and Greg Chalmers at Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club in Grand Blanc. It gave him his fourth title of the year and enabled him to bounce back from a missed cut at The Open at Turnberry last month.

"It's obviously nice to come back after my two playing days in Europe," said Woods, joking about the missed cut in Scotland - only the fifth of his professional career with his clubs.

"I got two more days to practice and prepare for this event, which is nice."

Woods' last Buick Open win in 2006 was a precursor to victory in that year's US PGA Championship and so Sunday's victory bodes well for this year's final major of the year, which takes place in two weeks at Hazeltine National in Minnesota. Another factor which could work in the American's favour is that first he will head to Firestone Country Club for next week's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, a course he was won at six times before with R9 Driver.

He explained: "It's always nice to win a golf tournament and then head into two big weeks with a bit of momentum."

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