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Fred Funk won a record $925,000 in the Skins Game.

With more than half the purse up for grabs on the final hole, Funk played it brilliantly. As usual, his drive was in the middle of the fairway on the 524-yard, par-5 finishing hole, although Woods and Couples had more distance. Funk’s approach shot left him with a 30-foot eagle putt, which curled just to the left, leaving him a tap-in for birdie.

“Obviously I’m not a power hitter at all,” said Funk, who hit a 284-yard drive and a 3-wood from 241 yards.

“I wasn’t sure, into the wind, that I could get home, but I hit a really good drive and a really good 3-wood to get it up there,” he said. “I didn’t think birdie would win it, but you just never know in the Skins.

“Again, timing’s everything,” Funk said. “It was very difficult to make putts. You saw a lot of putts go right up to the hole and break off. Freddie and Tiger hit a bunch like that. It’s just difficult trying to read these things and you don’t know where they go.”

Woods needed to make his birdie putt to halve the hole and force a playoff. He missed just left.

Funk also won $150,000 and three skins with a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-4 12th, the day’s third hole.

The previous oldest Skins Game champion was Gary Player, who was 48 when he won it in 1983.

Funk won the most money in one year and won the biggest hole in a regular Skins Game — not including the 2001 event that was played under a validation format. Greg Norman won $800,000 on one hole in that 2001 event, and $1 million overall.

Woods and Couples both had chances to reel in Funk, who won $225,000 and six skins on Saturday.

Woods had a sensational approach shot out of the right rough on the par-5 16th and could have won $280,000 and four skins, but his 25-foot eagle putt stopped about 4 inches short of the cup.

“Don’t do that, don’t,” Woods said before covering his face.

“Nice lag,” Sorenstam told him.

“I’ve got a pretty pink skirt for you,” Funk said to Woods.

On the par-3 17th, which was worth $350,000 and five skins, Funk hit into the water and Woods and Couples both missed long birdie putts. Sorenstam made a par putt, forcing Woods and Couples to do the same to halve the hole and carry the money over to the 18th.