Rose won World Golf Championship for the first time

In the event that wasn't enough, Padraig harrington muddied his Masters future as he left after 11 holes with soreness in his left Achilles tendon, wincing badly on his final shot ?a a 321-yard drive down the center of the 12th fairway.

NBC Sports showed images of Woods driving in a very black sedan as they drove faraway from Doral. It returned to golf just like Rory McIlroy, who started a final round eight shots behind, holed a bunker shot for eagle on the 12th hole.

McIlroy pulled within one shot in the lead with a birdie for the 16th hole, but he closed with a bogey as well as a 67 to finish alone in third.

Through all of it, Rose worked his way to the top of the leaderboard having a nifty up-and-down behind the green about the par-5 10th, and the man seized control over the tournament Taylormade R11 irons with a shot into 5 feet for birdie about the 14th.

Rose finished on 16-under 272 for his 10th victory worldwide, moving him back into the top ten of an world ranking that is still packed with Europeans.

It turned out per day that left little doubt about McIlroy's spot atop the world ranking. Much like Woods in previous years, McIlroy showed he could never be counted by helping cover their a multitude of splendid shots ?a many of them from precarious spots inside bunker ?a and threatened to win.

This is the same Posterior muscle group he injured a year ago on the Masters while hitting a trial from under Eisenhower's tree about the 17th hole in the third round. It wound up forcing Woods to miss 90 days and 2 majors next year.

This time around, he was lifting his left leg and flexing his angle, despite changing his shoes in the turn. The limp became more pronounced until he blasted his tee shot for the 12th, shook hands with Webb Simpson and rode off inside a cart.

"I felt tightness within my left Achilles warming up today, and yes it continued to obtain progressively worse," Woods said in a very statement. "After hitting my tee shot at 12, I made the decision it had been required to withdraw. Before, I may have attempted to continue to play, but now, I made a decision to perform what I thought was necessary."

He opened with two birdies through Taylormade R11 driver four holes, which has been enough to hook Watson, who looked beyond sorts for hours on end.

Watson didn't hit a fairway on the front nine, in support of one tee shot was able to stay within the bunkers that frame the fairways. He is at the river twice, once in a canal for the fifth hole that doesn't many knew are there. He shot a 39 on the front nine, including three putts outside 8 feet to limit the harm.

It was like watching NASCAR. Watson would have looked convenient as part of his General Lee stock car he recently bought.

Still, he showed remarkable resiliency to give himself a chance towards the end.

Watson wasn't the one player who faltered. Bradley opened with the eagle, tied for the lead which has a wedge into 3 feet for birdie on the fifth, then rolled in a 12-foot birdie at No. 7 that gave him a two-shot lead.

Bradley came undone with bogeys around the par 5s, although he was throughout the green along with his second shot on of them. On No. 8, his ball buried so deep in the grass behind the green ?a he called discount golf clubs for a ruling to ascertain if it had plugged ?a that they purposely played 20 feet from the flag, realizing it would roll over green. He didn't get up-and-down.

Then, he three-putted from about 6 feet on the par-5 10th, turning a birdie chance into bogey.

Bradley dropped four shots during the last four holes, including a double bogey around the 18th for the 75. He went from leading in the use a tie for eighth which has a 41 about the back nine.

"I didn't play that bad," Bradley said. "Just some really strange putts, then I merely kind of limped in."