SAN FRANCISCO -- Top-ranked Tiger Woods completed an undefeated week by defeating Y.E. Yang, 6 and 5, in singles play Sunday at chilly Harding Park Golf Course to clinch The Presidents Cup for the United States.
Woods finished the event with a 5-0 record, becoming just the third player to ever five matches at the event. His 18 career points are the most in Presidents Cup history.
The 19.5-to-14.5 victory by the Americans over the International Team was the Uunited States' third straight in the competition.
"We played great as a team," Woods said. "The captain [Fred Couples] did a good job with the pairings, and guys made some putts. I'm very proud of the guys."
Woods admitted Sunday's win against Yang had special meaning. Yang overtook Woods in the final round of the PGA Championship at Hazeltine Golf Club in August, snapping Wdoos' streak of 14 straight majors won when leading after 54 holes.
"He got me there," Woods said. "I figured I could get him here. Not exactly the same atmosphere, but it was still an important point."
Harding Park has been good to Woods, who played his collegiate golf 30 miles south at Stanford University. In 2005, he won the WGC-American Express Championship at Harding.
Coincidentally, he won the tournament on the 16th hole in a sudden-death playoff against John Daly. That's where Sunday's match ended against Yang, although it played as the 13th hole.
"I didn't know," Woods said, when asked if he had known at the time that his nine-foot birdie putt clinched The Presidents Cup. "I was just trying to get a point and go 6 up."
Woods' match did not start well, as he lost the par-5 first hole to a birdie by Yang. But Woods won the par-4 third hole with a two-putt par, then took the lead with a two-putt birdie from 38 feet at the par-5 fifth and never looked back.
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