DUBAI: Alvaro Quiros of Spain won the Dubai Desert Classic with a wild final round Sunday that included a hole-in-one and triple bogey as Tiger Woods' bid to win his first tournament in 15 months collapsed. On a day when the leaderboard constantly changed, the 70th-ranked Quiros shot 68 to end with a total of 11-under 277. Woods is still seeking his first tournament trophy in more than a year after falling well short with a final round 3-over 75 and ending tied for 20th with a total of 4-under 284. Quiros had an eagle on the second hole to move into the lead before a triple bogey on the eighth left him tied with Anders Hansen of Denmark who briefly took the lead soon after. Quiros responded with a birdie on the ninth and then a hole-in-one on the par-3 No. 11 to get back into the lead. He fell back again with a bogey on the 14th but a birdie on the 16th gave him the lead for good. Hansen briefly took the lead with an eagle on No. 13 but gave it up with a bogey on the 15th, finishing the round on 2-under 70. James Kingston of South Africa was also second with a final round 67. “There were quite a few positives this week but a couple of glaring examples of what I need to work on,” Woods said. Woods, who won in Dubai in 2006 and 2008, is now in the middle of his longest drought without a victory. His last victory came at the Australian Masters in November 2009. Tseng new No. 1 In Gold Coast, Australia, Taiwan's Yani Tseng took over the No. 1 ranking in women's golf after shooting a final-round 68 to win the Australian Ladies Masters by four strokes Sunday, her second victory in a row Down Under. Tseng, who won last week's Australian Open at Commonwealth Golf Club in Melbourne, finished the Masters at Royal Pines with a 24-under-par total of 264. Australian Nikki Campbell, with a final-round 64, and American Stacey Lewis, who shot 69, were tied for second. American Ryann O'Toole was fourth after a 69, six strokes behind Tseng. Former No. 1-ranked Jiyai Shin of South Korea tied for second last week at the Australian Open. Shin did not play this week. Seven-time Masters champion Karrie Webb shot a final-round 67 and was eight strokes behind Tseng. Marino clings on to lead In Pebble Beach, California, American Steve Marino dealt with the good, the bad and the ugly in a wildly fluctuating third round Saturday to stay ahead of the chasing pack in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Four ahead overnight, Marino ended a frustrating day on the greens with a one-stroke cushion after carding a one-over-par 71 at Monterey Peninsula, one of three venues being used this week. He is one ahead of compatriots Jimmy Walker and Bryce Molder, Walker having fired a sparkling seven-under 63 at Monterey and Molder a four-under 68 at Spyglass Hill. Fellow American D.A. Points, who had been alone in second place overnight, was a further stroke back at 10 under after carding a one-under 71 at Pebble Beach.
