Tiger Woods indeed proved the "greedy host" of the 2009 AT&T National golf tournament, scoring a three under par 67 Sunday to take the title by a stroke over Hunter Mahan. The victory was Woods' first AT&T National championship since he first launched the tournament to honor the military.
The promised battle between co-leaders Woods and Anthony Kim proved anticlimatic with Kim unable to sustain his play in the Tiger spotlight, shooting 71 on the final day to finish four strokes behind in third place.
Woods was left instead to chase the shadow of Hunter Mahan. Playing much earlier in the day, the upstart clocked an 8 under par 62 to tie the Congressional course record Kim had set just last Thursday.
With one and a half hours of play left to go for the 54 hole leaders, Mahan reached set a mark of 12 under for the tourney, just one shot below Woods. A bogey on the 11th hole dropped Woods to a tie with Mahan but he recovered for a birdie at 16 to go one up and all but clinch the title win.
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