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One day after a ceremonious return to golf, Tiger Woods was on his way home.

Tim Clark of South Africa played 16 holes without a bogey and pulled ahead for good on the back nine to knock Woods out of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship with a 4-and-2 victory on Thursday.

Woods holed out a 50-foot bunker shot for birdie on the 14th hole and appeared to be making a run, but his tee shot on the 15th hole hit a cart path and went over a fence and out of bounds, costing him the hole.

The good news for golf was it probably won't have to wait eight months to see him again.

Woods likely will play in two weeks at Miami in the CA Championship, although he said he would wait to see how his left knee felt. This was his first tournament since reconstructive surgery on the knee one week after he won the U.S. Open in June.

Asked where he would go from here, Woods replied, "To the airport."

WOODS DIDN'T PULL OFF USUAL MAGIC, BUT STILL PLEASED

When Tiger Woods holed that spectacular bunker shot from a buried lie in the right greenside bunker at the 14th hole, you couldn't help but think.

Here we go again.

Admit it. You thought he was going to pull off a miracle rally and erase that 3-down deficit to Tim Clark in the second round of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship.

You and just about everyone else on the planet -- even Clark. The understated South African remembered all too well how Woods was 3 down with five holes to play in his first round match last year against J.B. Holmes but came back to win 1 up.

"I figured, well, here we go, it's about to start now," Clark said with a wry smile. "I still calmed myself down. There's not much you can do. I can't change what Tiger is going to do, I can only try to make pars and birdies out there.

"I figured the match was probably going to go to 18, even when I was 3 up with three to play. You fully expect him to do something. I had to go out and play aggressive and obviously try and finish it off as quickly as I could."



By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM Chief of Correspondents