Jose Maria Olazabal carded a final round seven-under-par 65, including birdies at four of the last six holes, to complete a superb one-stroke victory at the Buick Invitational.

Coming off a fifth-placed finish last week at Pebble Beach, Olazabal claimed his sixth career PGA Tour victory and the 648,000 first prize.

The Spaniard, who also won the Omega Hong Kong Open on the European Tour in December, had not captured a PGA Tour event since the 1999 Masters - the second of his two titles at Augusta.

Mark O'Meara and JL Lewis finished one shot off the pace with John Daly - another two-time major winner - alone in fourth at 11-under.

Tiger Woods carded a 66 on Sunday and finished in a three-way tie for fifth at 10-under.

"I feel like I played very, very well over the weekend," said Olazabal, who shot a third round 67 after only making the halfway cut right on the mark of one-under.

Olazabal played four groups ahead of third-round co-leaders Lewis, O'Meara, and Jerry Kelly, and birdied the 551-yard par five 18th nearly an hour before Lewis' group reached the green.

Olazabal and Lewis both laid up on the last but with vastly different results.

Olazabal hit a lob wedge to three feet for his birdie while Lewis three-putted from 40 feet after missing an eight-foot par putt to force a play-off.

"I kind of got a bad break, then I choked," Lewis said.

The bad break was hitting his six iron second shot too close to Devlin's Billabong, the pond that guards the 18th, forcing him to play a conservative approach to the green.

"I just embarrassed myself. What can I say?" added Lewis.

Leading final round scores and totals in the Buick Invitational at the Torrey Pines South course, La Jolla, California (USA unless stated, par 72):

275 Jose Maria Olazabal (Spa) 71 72 67 65

276 Mark O'Meara 67 69 70 70, JL Lewis 68 67 71 70

277 John Daly 69 70 68 70

278 Tiger Woods 66 77 69 66, Bob Estes 75 66 71 66, Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 70 66 71 71

279 Chris Riley 66 73 71 69, John Rollins 70 67 71 71, Jerry Kelly 73 67 66 73

280 Vijay Singh (Fij) 69 71 71 69, Lee Janzen 70 72 69 69

281 Jay Haas 68 68 76 69, John Senden 72 65 75 69, Fred Funk 72 70 67 72, Jay Williamson 65 72 70 74, Greg Chalmers (Aus) 70 73 75 63

282 Luke Donald (Gbr) 65 75 74 68, Phil Tataurangi 75 67 71 69, Chris Smith 68 74 69 71, KJ Choi (Kor) 69 69 69 75

283 Paul Casey (Gbr) 72 67 74 70, Ben Crane 71 69 73 70, Peter Lonard 75 65 75 68, Mark Brooks 73 67 73 70, Mathew Goggin 64 76 72 71, Rod Pampling (Aus) 73 67 70 73, Brian Bateman 73 68 69 73, Kent Jones 68 67 72 76