The former world golf number one Tiger Woods has narrowly missed out on winning his first tournament in five years, finishing runner up at latest PGA tournament in Florida.
Woods, a 14 time major champion, had the opportunity to force a play off on the final hole but missed a difficult 12 metre birdie putt giving Englishman Paul Casey his second PGA tour win.
Casey shot a closing six-under par 65 to finish at 10 under to win by one shot from Woods and fellow American Patrick Reed on the Copperhead course at Innisbrook Resort in Florida.
Tiger Woods has narrowly missed out on winning his first tournament in five years. Photo: Photosport
The 14 time major winner's last tournament win came in 2013 and says it felt to good to be in contention again.
He said he felt comfortably but had not quite had his best game.
"I didn't feel that sharp with my iron game," Woods told NBC.
"I played very conservatively into the greens because I wasn't as sharp as yesterday.
"I keep getting just a little bit better and a little bit sharper (in general).
For 40-year-old Casey, who had won 17 times around the world, it was only his second US tour victory after the Shell Houston Open in April 2009 and his first win anywhere since the European tour's 2014 KLM Open.
-AAP
