Woods looks for return to winning ways

Father-to-be Tiger Woods this week tries to continue a simply phenomenal run which has seen him win every US Tour event he has played in since July 12 last year.

Byron Nelson’s record 11 successive victories back in 1945 is still a long way off – perhaps too far even to consider it a target at this stage – but if the world number one makes a successful defence of the Buick Invitational in southern California no one will be saying it is impossible.