Tiger beats Cink for fourth straight win, fifth WGC titlePosted: Sunday August 27, 2006 5:16PM; Updated: Sunday August 27, 2006 5:23PM
After taking a step back Saturday with a 71, Tiger Woods carded a 2-under 68 Sunday.
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- Tiger Woods celebrated his 10-year anniversary of turning pro Sunday by winning for the 52nd time on the PGA Tour, making an 8-foot birdie putt on the fourth playoff hole against Stewart Cink to win the Bridgestone Invitational.
Woods won for the fourth straight time, a streak that began at the British Open and shows no sign of ending.
This one looked to be in doubt, however, when Cink made up a three-shot deficit over the final three holes, then had Woods on the ropes the first three holes of the playoff. But with rain pounding Firestone South, Cink hit into a bunker on the 17th hole, and never got a chance to putt for par when Woods made his birdie.
Both finished at 10-under 270.
Woods won for the fifth time in the seven years this World Golf Championship has been played at Firestone South, and he now has won more on this layout than any other golf course on the PGA Tour. Woods has won four times each at Augusta National and Torrey Pines.
It was on Aug. 27, 1996 that Woods announced in Milwaukee he was turning pro. Ten years later, his 52 victories match Byron Nelson for fifth place all time, and his 12 majors are second only to the 18 won by Jack Nicklaus over a quarter-century.
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