Woods' Streak Ends at Five (Or Was It Seven?)

And after a Monday finish caused by weather delays, the winner of the WGC CA Championship is ... not Tiger Woods. All credit to Geoff Ogilvy, who won by two strokes over Jim Furyk and Retief Goosen. But the story today isn't who did win, but who didn't.

For Woods, it's his first loss since a tie for second at the Deutsche Bank Championship last September. Depending on how you keep score, Woods' winning streak heading into the CA Championship was five (PGA Tour events only), six (PGA Tour plus one Euro Tour tournament) or seven (all events played, including the unofficial Target World Challenge).

Two things are certain: We can stop talking about the streak after today, because it's over (at least until the next one begins). And the PGA Tour recognizes Woods' streak as five wins, less than half the number of wins in Byron Nelson's Tour-record winning streak. (The PGA Tour record book only recognizes PGA Tour wins, naturally.)

But while Woods (or anyone else) is unlikely to ever get too close to Nelson's mark, for another measure of Woods' greatness consider this: In PGA Tour history, there have been five winning streaks of five tournaments or longer. And three of them are by Tiger Woods.

See also:

• Longest PGA Tour winning streaks