Tiger Woods admitted he had failed to capitalise on his good early form on Sunday as his winless streak in majors stretched to nine at Royal Troon.

The world number one started the final day well-placed at four under par and birdies at the fifth and sixth saw him ominously perched just off the leaders at the midway point of his round.

But three dropped shots on the back nine saw the eight-time major winner finish his round on 72 for a three-under par tournament aggregate of 281.

That left him tied for ninth place with Canadian Mike Weir.

"I got off to a nice start today to be two under through six and I had another birdie opportunity at seven, but it just went the other way over the back nine and I just wasn't able to improve on my front nine," said Woods, whose last major title came at the US Open in 2002.

Woods' next opportunity to win a major comes at the USPGA Championship, a tournament he won in 1999 and 2000.

That takes place in mid-August and although Woods was reasonably happy with his performance at Royal Troon, he is aware there are a few problems to iron out before then.

"I had a chance this week and felt like I really could have won this tournament today, and I should be pretty happy about that," he said.

"Obviously I didn't win so I will have to take a look at where I went wrong, the mistakes I made and rectify them before the next tournament.

"I've got a few events before the PGA but I felt like I played well (here), I just made too many mistakes here and there.

"I didn't make any high numbers but I didn't make a lot of birdies either.

"I missed a couple of shots on the wrong side of the greens and on links golf courses you can't short-side yourself.

"If you short-side yourself on links greens you are not going to get the job done because the greens are just too hard and too fast."