Golf Events / Editor / 08 April 2007 / Leave a Comment

Tiger Woods felt his poor end to the first and third rounds cost him the chance of a fifth green jacket, as Zach Johnson held on to be crowned Masters champion.

The world number one finished joint second on +3, along with South African pair Retif Goosen and Rory Sabbatini, two shots behind Johnson.

Woods was in relefective mood after his final round, pinpointing dropped shots at 17 and 18 on Thursday and Saturday as the main reason he failed to claim another Augusta victory.
He said: "I had a chance and looking back I basically blew it with the two rounds (Thursday and Saturday) when I finished bogey-bogey.
"That's four over in two holes. You can't afford to do that and win major championships."
Woods added: "I kept plodding along. This course was playing very difficult.

"You just tried to give yourself as many chances for birdies as you could because they were hard to come by."

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Woods is now trading at 2.1 to win no Majors in 2007, while one Major can be backed at 2.64, two Majors is available at 3.55 and three Majors is currently 20.