Tiger Woods shot a flawless eight-under-par 63 to claim his 60th tour victory at the BMW Championship at Cog Hill, Illinois yesterday.

Woods final round 63 gave him a four-round total of 22-under-par 262 and a two-shot victory over Australian, Aaron Baddeley, with Steve Stricker two shot further back on 266.

Woods, third overnight, began his charge by picking up a stroke at the third before shifting into top gear to reel off three consecutive birdies from the seventh to briefly take the outright lead after a first nine of 31.

The World number one added four more birdies - at the 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th - in a homeward half of 32.

In contrast Stricker, winner of the first leg of the FedExCup four-event play-off at the Barclays two weeks ago, made a stuttering start with a bogey at the third.

But the American hit back with four birdies to head into the back nine on three-under. Baddeley opened with a birdie at the first.

South Africa's Tim Clark was making a dramatic charge up the leaderboard mixing seven birdies with a bogey for a 29 first nine, matching the all-time lowest nine hole score in the championship's 104-year history. However, he dropped two shot on the back nine for a 67.

EUROPEAN TOUR: Australian Brett Rumford birdied the first play-off hole to claim his third European Tour title in dramatic fashion in the Omega European Masters yesterday.

Rumford chipped in from off the 18th green to beat England's Phillip Archer after the pair had finished tied on 16 under par at Crans-sur-Sierre.

Archer's approach had also run through the green but the 35-year-old from Warrington - who carded a closing 65 - was unable to match Rumford's feat and had to settle for his second runners-up finish of the season.

Rumford had led by one with two holes to play but bogeyed the 17th, just as Archer had done 20 minutes earlier.

The 30-year-old from Perth, winner of the St Omer Open in 2003 and Irish Open in 2004, had a birdie putt from 15ft to win in regulation but failed to convert, giving defending champion Bradley Dredge a chance to make it a three-way play-off.

However, Dredge missed from a similar distance to finish third on 15 under par, one ahead of fellow Welshman Sion Bebb who enjoyed his best ever finish on the European Tour with a closing 68.

Graeme McDowell finished in 11th place after a final round of 66 saw him finish on nine-under-par 275.

SENIORS:Carl Mason shot a final round of 67 to win the PGA Seniors Championship at the Stoke-by-Nayland Club by six shots to secure his 18th European Seniors Tour win in just over four years competing on the circuit.

The 54 year old Englishman, who began with a four shot lead at the start of play after three previous rounds of 67, fired one more five-under-par score to finish on 20 under par 268.

He said: "I have to admit that was special. I am very pleased with that level of consistency. It's not easy to lead for all four days ."

It was Mason's fourth win of 2007. France's Philippe Dugeny fired a new course record, a nine under par 63, to finish on 14 under par 274 and in second spot, alongside Italy's Costantino Rocca, who closed with a four under par 68.

Outgoing champion Sam Torrance, winner in 2005 and 2006, also closed with a 68, his best score of the tournament after previous scores of 70-74-74, to finish on two under par 286.

Jimmy Heggarty finished on 288 after a final round of 74.

LET:England's Lisa Hall secured her second play-off victory of the season at the Nykredit Masters in Denmark.

The 39-year-old from Yorkshire held her nerve to par the first play-off hole, the tight, tree-lined par-four 18th at Helsingør Golf Club.

She entered a three-way play-off with compatriots Kirsty Taylor and Kiran Matharu having birdied the 72nd hole to move to nine-under-par in regulation.

Taylor, 36, who reached the 18th tee at 10-under, bogeyed the hole to force the play-off after her second shot from just off the fairway hit a tree and travelled just 10 feet.

It was Hall's second win of the year - and the third of her LET career. She also triumphed at the Northern Ireland Ladies Open after a marathon eight-hole play-off in June and the 1996 Women's Welsh Open. Claire Coughlan shot a final round of 75 for nine-over-par 293.