Tiger Woods made it six US Tour wins in succession yesterday at the AT&T Pro-Am at Pebble Beach in California, equalling Ben Hogan's six-in-a-row from 1948.

Woods started the day on seven under par after three rounds at the Monterey Peninsula course.

He needed a big day and he got it, finishing with an eight-under-par round of 64 - to finish on 15 under par, two ahead of longtime leader Matt Gogel who, at one time, was at 17 under par for the event on the last day.

Gogel eventually finished joint-second alongside Fiji's Vijay Singh on 13 under.

The real turning point for Woods came on the par-four 15th, where a wedge from just inside 100 yards pitched to the right of the hole and spun sideways before dropping into the cup for an eagle.

Woods had known at the start of the day that he needed to pick up four shots in the last five holes and he made no mistake, with a birdie at the par-five 18th after a thunderous two-iron approach fell just short of the green.

Gogel clung onto the dream of catching Woods and needed a birdie at the 18th to tie him.

His third shot, an approach with a wedge from 80 yards, hit the green and finished no more than eight feet from the hole, but he missed the crucial putt and then bogeyed the hole.

Woods is still on course for Byron Nelson's 11-in-a-row US Tour victory streak from 1945 and next up is the Buick Invitational, starting on Thursday at Torrey Pines.

After seeing Gogel miss his opportunity to tie the competition after 72 holes, Woods hugged members of his entourage and said on television: "It was not easy today, it was difficult to putt on the greens.

"It was damp and the ball was not flying very far. You had to be putting well and had to make your share."