Perfect 10 as Tiger goes for the jug-ular

IT all ended at 4.40pm on a muggy St Andrews afternoon although there were still an hour and twenty five minutes of golf to be played.

At precisely the same time that Tiger Woods was making birdie at the 12th, his chief rivals Jose-Maria Olazabal was taking bogey at the same hole and Colin Montgomerie was doing likewise at the 13th.

That left Tiger at 14 under and Olly and Monty both on ten under. There was no way back for either. It turned into an anti-climactic end to an otherwise magnificent championship as Tiger had the claret jug in the bag. He eventually cruised home by five strokes, adding a 70 to his earlier scores of 66, 67 and 70 for a fourteen under par total of 274.