Tiger Woods last night retained his position as world number one, despite suffering his worst tournament finish as a professional.<br /><br />  <table style="width: 144px; height: 172px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="144" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/aug/tiger.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><strong>Tiger Woods. Pic/AFP</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>With Woods finishing joint 78th in the 80-man field after a closing round of 77, Phil Mickelson knew he needed to finish fourth or better to move top of the world rankings.<br /><br />The US Masters champion was joint 10th overnight and four shots off the lead, but endured a nightmare front nine of 41 to end his chances of ending Woods' five-year reign.<br /><br />Mickelson finished with an eight over 78 in a tie for 46th as Hunter Mahan triumphed by two strokes on 12 under following a final round 64 at Firestone Country Club in Akron.<br /><br />It meant Woods' stretch as World No 1, which has run for 269 weeks since June 2005, is to continue until at least next week's USPGA Championship at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin.<br /><br />After finding a greenside bunker in two on the par-five second, Mickelson surprisingly thinned his recovery well over the green to run up a bogey six.<br /><br />Worse was to come with a hat-trick of bogeys from the sixth followed by a double bogey six on the ninth, while yet more dropped shots on the 12th and 13th left Mickelson eight over par for the day and with a three over total of 283.

Tiger Woods last night retained his position as world number one, despite suffering his worst tournament finish as a professional

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