Monday, August 07, 2006

Woods Becomes Youngest To Reach 50 Wins

The red shirt was familiar, and so was the result. Tiger Woods won his 50th PGA Tour title Sunday, shooting his fourth-straight 6-under 66 for a three-stroke victory over Jim Furyk in the Buick Open.

Woods reached a season-low 24 under and made a career-high 28 birdies in the tournament to hold off Furyk � who closed with a 64 � for his fourth win of the year and a check of $864,000.

Woods became the seventh member of the PGA Tour's 50-win club after improving to 21-for-21 when leading by more than one stroke after three rounds. The 30-year-old Woods beat Jack Nicklaus' record pace to the milestone, which Nicklaus reached in 1973 at the age of 33.

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