Golf Results 2013 December 09

Results

In the United States, Zach Johnson snatched the World Challenge title from world number one - and tournament host - Tiger Woods in a final round playoff.

Woods had dominated the event, which he hosts each year at the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California, until Johnson mounted an aggressive charge for the lead during the final round.

As the California sunshine provided temperate weather conditions, Woods allowed his two-shot lead to be reduced to one by Johnson, his playing partner on the final day – the back nine witnessed a competition for the lead that extended beyond the eighteenth.

The first extra hole decided the winner, with Johnson carding a comfortable par to beat Woods' bogey. After two second-place finishes at the World Challenge, Johnson was in celebratory mood after he lifted the trophy on Sunday afternoon.

As host and five-time former winner of the tournament, Woods congratulated his competitor, calling his performance "pretty impressive" and handing over the tiger-shaped trophy to a visibly elated Johnson.

On the European Tour, veteran Spanish golfer Miguel Angel Jimenez defended his Hong Kong Open title on Sunday.

Jimenez, who is a month away from 50, won his fourth Hong Kong Open and the twentieth European Tour title of his career when he defeated the Welshman Stuart Manley and Thailand's Prom Meesawat in a three-way playoff. After starting the final round two strokes off the pace, the Spaniard played a blistering eighteen holes of golf to card a 66, forcing a playoff.

As Manley and Meesawat headed for pars on the first extra hole, Jimenez cracked a gutsy tee shot into the middle of the fairway and laid up perfectly within 18 feet of the hole. The swashbuckling Spaniard made a birdie putt to clinch the title, celebrating his victory in his usual style by lighting a cigar.

Jimenez remains the oldest player to win a European Tour event, having broken his own record, which was set at last year's Hong Kong Open.