Woods wins third US Open

Tiger Woods, in agony and in danger it seemed of having to pull out of the US Open last Friday, completed a simply staggering victory today.

On the very day he reached 500 weeks as world number one, Woods took his total of majors to 14 – just four short of Jack Nicklaus’s record – after a marathon duel with fellow American Rocco Mediate at Torrey Pines.