Tiger Woods is on top of the world again after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational for an unprecedented eighth time.
Tiger Woods: Back to his best
Two years and five months after losing the number one ranking following a record 623 weeks atop, the 36-year-old Woods moves back to the top with Rory McIlroy dropping to number two in the world.
A severe thunderstorm forced officials to push the final round to Monday and Woods, who completed only two holes on Sunday to find himself three shots ahead of the chasing pack at 12 under, carded a two-under-par 70 for a total of 13 under for the tournament.
"It was a by-product of hard work, patience and getting back to playing golf tournaments," he said on Sky Sports 1.
"I've won some golf tournaments in the last couple of years and consequently I've moved up."
Asked if he would have to add to his 14 majors in order to convince the doubters, Woods added: "It's up to them. It's their opinion, I'm very pleased with the way I'm playing."
Justin Rose finished two shots behind the American after finishing at 11 under while Keegan Bradley, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Mark Wilson and Rickie Fowler were another three strokes adrift.
Fowler was the man who kept his playing partner Woods company at the top of the leaderboard for most of the day, and it looked like the battle would go down to the final hole as he was just two behind after a 22 footer for birdie at the 14th hole.
Both players bogeyed the 15th, but Fowler's challenge came to a disappointing halt a hole later as he put two balls into the water to rack up a triple bogey eight.
Tiger stretched his lead over Rose to three shots with a two-putt birdie at 16, but he started with a loose tee-shot on the final hole. However, he chipped it back onto the fairway and nearly finished in style as his 73 foot putt missed by a few inches.
A bogey though was enough for him to finish two shots ahead of Rose with Fowler settling for one over 73 to tie for third with Bradley, Fernandez-Castano and Wilson.
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