Woods goes fourth on all-time win list

TUCSON, Arizona -- Tiger Woods overwhelmed fellow American Stewart Cink eight and seven to win his third World Golf Championships Accenture Match Play Championship crown in Tucson on Sunday.

The victory sent Woods past Arnold Palmer into fourth on the all-time win list.

Top-ranked Woods dominated the 36-hole final for his sixth worldwide triumph in a row and fourth consecutive US PGA Tour victory.

His global run includes victories last month at Torrey Pines and three weeks ago at Dubai.

Woods, a 13-time major champion chasing Jack Nicklaus' career major record of 18, won his 63rd title and is now within one victory of matching third-placed Ben Hogan.

Sam Snead is at the head of the list with 82 titles and Nicklaus is next at 73 but Woods, aged 32, must have every chance of outstripping both.

The eight and seven triumph was the biggest winning margin in a final in the event's 10-year history, surpassing the six and five victory by David Toms over Chris DiMarco in 2005.

Woods became the first man with a four-event PGA win streak for a third time in his career. The only other player to achieve the feat twice was Byron Nelson from 1945 and 1946.

Woods picked up $1.35 million, taking his career winnings to $ 77.8 million. He has now won 15 WGC tournaments, dominating the select events matching elite PGA fields. He also won the 2003 and 2004 WGC Match Play titles.

The $18.5 million winnings from WGC events alone, would put him in the top 25 among all-time money winners.

After both men opened with a birdie, Woods birdied to win the second and par-five fifth holes and won the seventh with a birdie as well. Woods went four up when first-time Match Play finalist Cink bogeyed the eighth.

Another bogey for Cink left Woods five up after 11 but Cink won his first hole by sinking a five-foot birdie putt at the 12th.

Cink birdied the par-three 16th but Woods tapped in a short birdie putt at the par-five 17th and was four up after 18 holes.

Woods went five-up with a tap-in birdie at the 20th and missed a chance at the fifth when a four-foot par putt lipped out to halve.

Woods dropped a 20-foot birdie putt to win the sixth and a five-foot birdie to win the seventh, then followed with a birdie at the par-three eighth to go eight up with 10 holes remaining.

Cink sank a long putt at the 10th to cut the deficit to seven-down, but only after Woods lipped out his long putt to halve..

The end came at the 11th when Woods rolled his approach to a stop two feet from the cup. Cink gave Woods the putt, then missed his own birdie putt to halve the hole, giving Woods the victory. E-mail to a friend