Furyk Storms Back, Wins Doral

Tiger Woods isn't the only player capable of an incredible comeback.

Jim Furyk overcame a six-shot deficit with seven holes to play by pouring in putts from all over and taking advantage of Franklin Langham's collapse to win the Doral-Ryder Open on Sunday.

It was a chilling replay of Pebble Beach last month, when Woods came from seven strokes down with seven holes to play to beat fast-fading Matt Gogel who, like Langham, was trying to win for the first time on tour.

Furyk wasn't nearly as spectacular there were no wedges holed for eagle from the middle of the fairway but he was no less efficient.

With six birdies for a 30 on the back nine, Furyk closed with a 7-under 65 on another tame day at the Blue Monster for a 265, tying the tournament record set by Greg Norman in 1993. Furyk won $540,000 for his fifth career victory.

"I told my caddie on the 10th tee that I needed to shoot 30 on the back nine. I didn't think it would it would be enough," Furyk said. "I just kept plugging away."

Langham birdied the first three holes and looked like he would shatter Norman's 72-hole record. Instead, he looked a lot like Norman at Augusta National in 1996 when the Shark squandered a six-stroke lead in the final round of the Masters.

Langham managed just two pars and no birdies over the final six holes and closed with a 2-under 70. He had a chance to force a playoff, but rammed his 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th well past the hole and two-putted for par.

The player who held the lead for 28 consecutive holes could only watch as Furyk sank a 5-foot birdie putt for a two-stroke victory and all the spoils.

"The only person who could shoot 7-under and win was him, and he did it," Langham said. "For one reason or another, it wasn't my turn."

Nick Price made a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a 67 that left him alone in third at 270, one stroke ahead of David Duval (66) and Shigeki Maruyama (69), who secured his position in the top 50 and an invitation to the Masters.

It was the second straight year at Doral that a player going after his first victory stumbled down the stretch. Last year it was Greg Kraft, who chunked his 5-iron into the water on the 18th and had to scramble to make bogey for second place.

"No, no, no, no," Langham moaned, after pushing his approach on the 17th so far to the right that it skirted over the mounds guarding a bunker and into the gallery. The six-stroke lead he took with a chip-in on No. 11 had shrunk to one stroke, and he was leaking oil fas.

Langham's chip stopped short of the green, leading to a bogey. Furyk's 20-foot birdie putt fell into the center of the cup, the second two-shot swing in five holes.

That Furyk managed to match Norman's record on the Blue Monster was no surprise. The course was toned down after criticism of Raymond Floyd's redesign, and it was left vulnerable by the absence of any semblance of wind most of the week.

Still, Langham was playing like he could win on any course under any condition, and he had plenty of support. A couple of guys in bright red shirts that said, "Lang's Gang" were whooping and hollering as if they were at a Georgia-Florida football game.

Langham was giving them reason to cheer.

Nerves? For a guy who had never led on Sunday in a PGA Tour event, Langham looked like winning was a habit after making birdies on the first three holes to build a six-stroke lead.

Furyk tried to close the gap, but the 31-year-old Georgian, who was born in Augusta and once posted scores behind the 16th green at the Masters, always had an answer.

With his 15-foot chip-in for birdie on the 11th and another six-stroke lead, the tournament seemed to be over.

And then suddenly, shades of Pebble Beach.

In four holes, Langham's lead went from six strokes to one.

Furyk birdied the 12th from 15 feet.

A two-shot swing on No. 13 when Langham failed to save par from the bunker and Furyk made an 18-footer from the bunker.

A bogey by Langham on No. 14 when he pulled his tee shot and hit over the green.

Furyk's approach to 2 feet for birdie on the par-3 15th.

The comeback and the collapse came to a head on the 17th, and the victory walk Langham had envisioned turned into a funeral march coming up the 18th.

Divots: Greg Norman says he will play two more seasons, and eight more majors, before significantly cutting back his schedule.