Tiger Woods' astonishing seven-event winning streak came to a quiet end as Australian Geoff Ogilvy won the £4million CA Championship in Miami.

Woods, who had not been beaten in nearly seven months, had a horrendous week on the greens, but in the end finished only two strokes off the pace, a testament to his peerless ability.

He made a mini charge late in the final round but in the end left himself with too much work as Ogilvy eked out a one-stroke victory over Fiji's Vijay Singh, American Jim Furyk and South African Retief Goosen, with Woods alone in fifth place at Doral Resort's Blue Monster.

Hartlepool's Graeme Storm, in just his second World Golf Championships event, was the best European, four shots behind in a tie for sixth.

"I made too many mistakes this week," Woods acknowledged.

"I had four three-putts, two terrible lies in bunkers and a photographer got me (by snapping early on hole nine).

"With all that, to finish only two back, I think that's a great sign. I don't think you guys or the fans really understand just how small the difference is (between winning and not winning)."

Ogilvy, meanwhile, was delighted to end a near two-year drought since his previous victory at the 2006 United States Open.

He had a two-stroke lead with nine holes left when the final round resumed on Monday, and got the job done by parring every hole on the way home.

He had a spot of luck at the par-three 13th, where a 30-foot chip shot for par clattered against the pin and dropped in.

That saved him at least one stroke, maybe even two, but he was very steady apart from that, forcing his pursuers to come at him.

"I didn't think nine pars would do it," said Ogilvy, surprised that nobody applied more pressure.

"Holding off the group is pretty nice. There was a fair bit of talent on the leaderboard. It's nice to come in in front of them, ending the (Woods) streak."

Ogilvy's fourth professional victory saw him become just the third player to win more than one WGC event, joining Woods (15) and Darren Clarke (two).

And though he did not play a spectacular back nine Ogilvy played the dangerous par-four flawlessly.

He hit a perfect drive down the middle of the fairway, avoiding the water, and followed it with an eight iron to the heart of the green before leaving his first putt stone dead.

That left Singh needing to chip in from 25 feet to force a play-off but he could not and Ogilvy was left with a tap-in.

"My standard of play was best on Thursday and worst today," said Ogilvy, who led after every round.

"I played so good on Thursday it was silly. Saturday was okay and by this morning I was hanging on a little bit, but maybe that's what it feels like sometimes on the last nine holes of a tournament."

Singh added: "Geoff played well and I have to give him credit. I'm pretty happy with my result, considering I shot 73 on the first day. I made two bad mistakes today and then I came back strong."

He was referring to bogeys at the 13th and 14th holes, which he followed up with birdies at the 16th and 17th.

But he needed a hat-trick of birdies to force extra holes, and it was not to be.

Collated final-round 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)