Tiger Woods shrugged off three consecutive bogeys while cruising to an eight-shot victory at the Buick Invitational on Sunday for his 62nd PGA Tour title.Woods piled up five birdies and four bogeys for a 19-under total of 269 to record a fourth successive triumph at the coastal venue and his sixth overall.
"The whole idea today was to go out and shoot something under par and not make any bogeys, but I got half of that right," Woods told reporters after winning his opening PGA Tour event of the season for the sixth time in 12 years.
With the bad weather forecast for Sunday not materializing until late in the day, the only question on the lips of fans crammed around the course was the margin of Woods's victory.
As the winds strengthened and the predicted thunderstorm approached, he parred 17 before signing off with a birdie at the last where he hit his third shot to nine feet and calmly holed the putt.