US Open champion Jim Furyk shot a four-under-par final round of 68 on Sunday, holding off Tiger Woods to clinch a two-shot victory at the £2.5million Buick Open.

Furyk posted a winning score of 21-under 267 at the Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club, taking home the first prize of £450,000 for what was his ninth career victory.

After capturing his first major title at the US Open in June, Sunday's win established another milestone for Furyk as it gives the Pennsylvania native two wins in the same season for the first time in his career. He won once in each of the last five years.

Woods, the defending champion, was trying for his fifth victory of 2003, which would have matched last year's total, but he settled for a tie for second with Geoff Ogilvy, Briny Baird and second-round leader Chris DiMarco.

The world number one, who began the day four shots behind Furyk, signed for a six-under 66 which left him at 269.

Winless in the year's first three majors, Woods skipped last week's Greater Hartford Open after finishing fourth in the British Open.

He went back to his Titleist driver on Monday when he and world number two Ernie Els lost three-and-one to Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia in the Battle of the Bridges, the made-for-television match play event.

Ogilvy matched the lowest round of the day, a seven-under 65 which enabled him to climb from a tie for 11th at the start of the round.

Paul Goydos and Neal Lancaster tied for sixth at 270, two shots ahead of Andrew Magee, Vijay Singh, Paul Gow and the in-form Kenny Perry.

Collated scores and totals after final round of US PGA Tour Buick Open, Warwick Hills G & CC, Grand Blanc, Michigan (Par 72, USA unless stated):

267 Jim Furyk 68 66 65 68

269 Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 70 65 69 65, Briny Baird 70 68 65 66, Tiger Woods 69 65 69 66, Chris DiMarco 67 64 71 67

270 Paul Goydos 68 68 66 68, Neal Lancaster 67 68 66 69

272 Paul Gow 66 67 69 70, Vijay Singh (Fij) 69 67 70 66, Andrew Magee 71 64 71 66, Kenny Perry 69 67 66 70

273 Jeff Sluman 71 68 67 67, Paul Azinger 71 66 68 68

274 Heath Slocum 67 71 67 69, Garrett Willis 67 68 70 69, David Sutherland 66 67 74 67, John Huston 69 67 73 65, Dicky Pride 70 69 67 68

275 Hal Sutton 72 64 70 69, Jay Delsing 71 67 67 70 275, Woody Austin 69 66 68 72, Todd Barranger 71 66 71 67, Mike Heinen 70 69 69 67 275

276 Ian Leggatt (Can) 71 69 70 66, Hank Kuehne 69 68 68 71, Scott Verplank 69 70 66 71, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 67 72 68 69, Fred Funk 68 68 69 71 276, Scott McCarron 70 70 70 66, Shaun Micheel 67 68 72 69, Tom Pernice Jr 70 67 71 68, Craig Perks (Nzl) 66 71 68 72

277 Thomas Levet (Fra) 67 69 74 67, Esteban Toledo (Mex) 72 68 69 68, Stephen Ames (Tri) 69 70 70 68, Bob Estes 72 66 66 73, Jerry Kelly 69 72 69 67

278 Charles Howell III 71 66 69 72, Jeff Brehaut 70 69 69 70, Mike Sposa 65 76 72 65, Alexander Cejka (Ger) 72 69 70 67, John Daly 68 69 69 72, Robert Damron 68 70 69 71, Carl Paulson 66 69 65 78

279 Darron Stiles 68 72 70 69, Kent Jones 67 71 69 72, Danny Briggs 72 64 73 70, Skip Kendall 72 68 70 69, Rocco Mediate 68 69 70 72

280 Mathew Goggin (Aus) 71 68 74 67, Craig Barlow 72 69 71 68, Steve Flesch 70 68 68 74, Grant Waite (Nzl) 68 71 69 72, Olin Browne 72 67 74 67, Doug Barron 69 72 69 70, Spike McRoy 68 71 70 71

281 Kenneth Staton 70 69 73 69, Carlos Franco (Par) 70 68 71 72 281, Greg Chalmers (Aus) 72 67 71 71 281, Tom Scherrer 70 69 72 70

282 Ty Tryon 70 69 71 72, Ben Curtis 68 71 76 67, Bob Tway 70 71 72 69, Tom Byrum 68 71 73 70, Brian Henninger 70 71 68 73

283 Kaname Yokoo (Jpn) 69 68 72 74, Jason Buha 67 71 71 74

284 Brian Bateman 70 69 73 72, Todd Fischer 72 69 71 72 284

285 Steven Alker 71 69 73 72, Hidemichi Tanaka (Jpn) 72 69 73 71

286 Jay Don Blake 69 72 72 73

288 Stan Utley 70 70 77 71

290 Jeff Klein 69 71 78 72

292 Dean Wilson 69 72 73 78