Tiger turns the air blue as Aussie Ogilvy triumphs in Miami

He lost his temper as well after one ruck too many with the madding hordes of photographers who follow his every move.

After the countless number of lip-outs that occured all weekend long, came the lip.

"The next time a photographer shoots a f****** picture on my backswing," Woods fumed, after a wayward tee shot to the short ninth resulted in a bogey. "I'm going to break his f****** neck."

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It will mean yet another undisclosed fine for a player who has racked up more than most for audible obscenities.

"The worst thing about Tiger is all his swearing," the caddie of a world top ten player told me recently.

While Woods cussed his way back to Orlando to prepare for the Masters in a fortnight's time, Australian Geoff Ogilvy held his nerve to win the tournament by a stroke from a trio of proven winners and join Darren Clarke as the only men with two World Golf Championship titles to their name.

The only player with more is Woods. He has 15.

As for the gallant Englishman Graeme Storm, a veritable fish out of water given that he is ranked 136th in the world and was surrounded by pedigree names, he finished with a 71 for tied sixth place.

For every person appalled at the language of someone like Woods, watched as he is at every juncture by primary school-age fans, there will be another believing it goes with the territory when dealing with a competitor of this magnitude.

"What everyone can agree with is that the last few weeks have been some of the most memorable in the sport in recent times.

From the astonishing eagle putt on the final hole in Dubai, to the mesmerising heroics at the Accenture Match Play Championship, culminating in the most animated reaction of his career after holing the winning putt at the Arnold Palmer Invitational; it has been some ride.

Naturally, he gave it everything in the holes left over in Monday's final round.

As usual, no-one was better over the closing stretch, as he played the seven holes remaining to him in three under.

But there was simply too much ground to make up, and so the seven tournament-winning streak, stretching back over six months, was over.

Woods was still clearly upset afterwards with the photographer.

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"I made too many mistakes over the weekend, too many three putts, but the photographer at the 9th didn't help either," he said. "But when you think I still only finished two behind, that's a good sign."

Alongside Vijay Singh and Ogilvy in the final group was Storm.

Monday finishes are dreaded by everyone because the crowds are low and the air reeks of anti-climax.

It is on occasions such as this that experience invariably comes to the fore - just look at the names at the top of the leaderboard, - and so it wasn't surprising that the 30 year old from Hartlepool suffered more than most.

Like the thundery weather that caused the Monday finish, Storm had blown himself out.

But what a learning experience for the man working part-time in a cake factory six years ago to make ends meet.

There was not only the dazzling third round 63, the best of his career. In only his fourth start in America, he picked up a cheque for $268,000, and loads of Ryder Cup qualifying points.

As he chatted happily with Singh down the closing hole, he was clearly revelling in his new circumstances.

"I was really jumpy today, but it feels wonderful to have arrived at this level, and now I want to kick on," he said. So it came down to a classy quartet, all of whom have major championships to their names.

Former U.S Open winners Retief Goosen and Jim Furyk both showed welcome returns to form after long stretches of poor play.

They posted totals of 16 under par, one better than Woods. Singh finished on the same mark.

So to Ogilvy. He will look back on the chip-in for par at the 13th as the shot that won him the title.

But, for a man who only hit 40 per cent of fairways all week, the arrow-straight drive down the scary last hole, statistically the hardest par four 18th on the U.S tour, was impressive too.

He was leading or tied for the lead throughout and, as such, deserved this notable triumph.