Tiger wins in Heidelberg
World number one Tiger Woods has won the Deutsche Bank Open title at Heidelberg after defeating Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie in a sudden death play-off.
The gripping duel between the two Ryder Cup giants was settled when Montgomerie, having hit his drive into a fairway bunker, went from there into the lake short of the 18th green.
Although Woods had gone over the green himself with his second, Montgomerie double-bogeyed and Woods got up and down for par to win the event for the third time in four years.
It was the 44th victory of Woods' phenomenal career and amazingly his 16th in 34 European Tour-counting events.
For Montgomerie, though, there was the satisfaction that he had stretched the world number one to the limit - and had done so with a back problem which he said would have led to his withdrawal if he had not been in contention.
