European players struggle at Bay Hill

How about this for a statistic. All four Europeans to make the cut -- Woosnam, Colin Montgomerie, Lee Westwood and Bernhard Langer -- shot 79 in the final round.

Not too good for four guys with a combined 22 Ryder Cup appearances.

Montgomerie was the last to finish and as he emerged from the scoring trailer a British reporter told him of the quirky co-incidence.

"I'm not in the mood to be quirky," said Montgomerie, leaving without further ado.

Montgomerie slowly frittered away strokes, while Langer did most of his damage at the par-five sixth, where he put two balls into the water.

Ian Woosnam will revert to the long putter at the Players Championship, after an ill-fated experiment with a regular putter at Bay Hill.

"I've been putting well with it (the long wand) so it's back to that," Woosnam said after shooting 79 to finish at seven-over 295. At least he birdied the last, rolling in a 10-footer to break 80.

"What a lot of rubbish that was," he said of his round. Asked how long it had been since he played consistently well, he replied: "My memory doesn't go back that far."

With some further thought, however, Woosnam remembered that in 1996 he won four times on the European Tour.