Geoff Ogilvy ended Tiger Woods’s winning streak at seven successive tournaments as he held on to win the WGC-CA Championship over the Blue Monster Course at Doral in Florida by a stroke.

The Australian had started the day with a four-shot advantage over his rivals with nine holes to play of the final round, which had to be carried over to the Monday because of delays over the weekend.

While Ogilvy reeled off par after par, his rivals began to pick up shots and started to trim the lead. The turning point, though, came on the par-three 13th. Ogilvy found the Bermuda rough left of the green with his tee shot and left himself in a similarly awkward spot after fluffing his second.

But he responded by chipping in for par, draining the fight from Vijay Singh, his playing partner, who bogeyed that hole and the next.

A final-round of 1-under 71 was good enough for Ogilvy to finish at 17 under, one shot better than Retief Goosen, Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh, who all finished with 68s. Woods was alone in fifth at 15 under, while Graeme Storm, the Hartlepool-based professional, was two shots further back in a tie for sixth after a one-under-par final round of 71.

With the win, Ogilvy joined select company — only Woods and Darren Clarke have more than one WGC title. But this week will be remembered more for the fact that someone actually managed to beat the world No 1.

It was Woods's first defeat in eight events worldwide since September 3 last year and his perfect start to 2008 — three wins out of three on the PGA Tour and four out of four overall — had led some to speculate that the American might go the whole season unbeaten.

“I had a shot at it and just came up short,” said Woods, who had won 16 of his previous 26 events on the PGA Tour.

“I think it's a great sign, what happened this week, to make that many mistakes and only be two back,” Woods said.

Scores, (USA unless stated, par 72):

271 Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 65 67 68 71

272 Vijay Singh (Fij) 73 68 63 68, Jim Furyk 69 71 64 68, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 71 69 64 68

273 Tiger Woods 67 66 72 68

275 Steve Stricker 71 68 73 63, Nick O’Hern (Aus) 67 75 67 66, Graeme Storm (Eng) 71 70 63 71

276 Adam Scott (Aus) 67 68 69 72, Zach Johnson 69 72 67 68

277 Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 69 71 71 66

278 Anders Hansen (Den) 67 71 67 73, KJ Choi (Kor) 70 70 67 71, Tim Clark (Rsa) 71 69 66 72

279 Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 69 74 70 66, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 69 73 69 68, Justin Rose (Eng) 70 71 70 68, Gregory Havret (Fra) 68 74 68 69, Stephen Ames (Can) 73 68 68 70

280 Phil Mickelson 67 74 70 69, John Rollins 74 71 67 68, Robert Allenby (Aus) 69 75 66 70, Mike Weir (Can) 73 69 67 71, Luke Donald (Eng) 68 72 70 70, Stewart Cink 66 74 71 69

281 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 68 70 70 73, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 65 74 71 71, Camilo Villegas (Col) 71 72 68 70, Toru Taniguchi (Jpn) 68 73 72 68

282 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 68 70 70 74, Mark Calcavecchia 68 71 71 72, Andres Romero (Arg) 68 72 73 69, Boo Weekley 72 73 69 68

283 Daniel Chopra (Swe) 72 70 69 72, Justin Leonard 69 74 70 70, Ross Fisher (Eng) 68 73 70 72, Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 68 73 73 69, Lee Westwood (Eng) 71 72 72 68, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 73 71 68 71

284 J.B. Holmes 69 72 75 68, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 70 74 70 70, Brendan Jones (Aus) 76 75 66 67, Scott Verplank 71 70 74 69

285 Hunter Mahan 72 72 71 70, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 72 69 70 74, Woody Austin 70 70 74 71, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 71 77 67 70

286 Graeme McDowell (NIrl) 72 71 70 73, Brandt Snedeker 74 70 72 70, Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 74 74 70 68

287 Paul Casey (Eng) 72 75 67 73, Arron Oberholser 72 70 72 73, Richard Green (Aus) 74 72 71 70, Nick Dougherty (Eng) 70 73 71 73, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia (Ind) 74 73 68 72, Charles Howell III 69 76 72 70

288 Ian Poulter (Eng) 71 72 72 73, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 68 74 73 73, D.J. Trahan 74 73 75 66, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 72 72 76 68

291 Peter Hanson (Swe) 71 74 73 73, Brett Wetterich 70 74 76 71, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 70 70 74 77, Paul Sheehan (Aus) 72 73 72 74

292 Anton Haig (Rsa) 72 80 73 67, Colin Montgomerie (Sco) 75 74 70 73, Jonathan Byrd 74 74 72 72

293 Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 74 74 71 74, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 74 72 70 77

294 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 72 74 69 79, James Kingston (Rsa) 74 75 68 77, Soren Hansen (Den) 77 77 68 72

295 Craig Parry (Aus) 73 75 72 75, Shingo Katayama (Jpn) 75 76 72 72

296 Ernie Els (Rsa) 74 75 73 74

297 Mark Brown (Nzl) 73 74 76 74

298 Heath Slocum 74 72 78 74

Withdrawn: Angel Cabrera (Arg)