Tiger Woods and Annika Sorenstam won the Battle at Bighorn at the 19th hole in California, but golf's fabulous four hardly dazzled under the floodlights at Bighorn Golf Club.

Australian Karrie Webb and newly crowned British Open champion David Duval, teamed against Woods and Sorenstam in the made-for-television alternate-shot match, were two-up with three to play.

But the gusting desert winds, the alternate-shot format itself and the strange shadows cast on the greens by the lights at the last four holes contributed to yet another turnaround.

"It was blowing, it was tough," Duval said. "There were a lot of cross winds, that makes it tough."

Woods and Sorenstam squared the match with a birdie at the 18th hole, even though Sorenstam's tee shot bounced through a patch of desert sand and left Woods with 94 yards from the rough.

Woods used a wedge to get it to 12 feet, and Sorenstam made the birdie putt, while Webb, who was in a fairway bunker off the tee, left her birdie try short.

They went back to the 18th tee, and this time Sorenstam's tee shot landed behind the fairway bunker while Webb was in the same bunker again.

Woods's second shot landed on the back fringe, while Duval's shot out of the bunker was short of the green.

Sorenstam's 35-foot putt from the fringe left Woods a two-footer for par, while Webb had a tough shot over the front bunker to 18 feet. Duval's par attempt rolled a couple of feet past, and Woods conceded the bogey before stepping up to make his par and claim the $1.2 million first prize for himself and Sorenstam. Webb and Duval earned $500,000.

The match was the third in a series of made-for-television events that started with the Showdown at Sherwood between Woods and Duval and continued last year with Sergio Garcia's win over Woods in one-on-one Battle at Bighorn.

Both Sorenstam and Webb were delighted with a chance to showcase women's golf alongside Woods and Duval in US television's prime time evening hours. But both said they wished they had played better.

"I was looking forward to just playing in this foursome," said Webb. "I really enjoyed it, I didn't play very well at all. I played a couple of good holes, then lost my rhythm."

"This format you only hit a few shots," Sorenstam said. "That makes it hard to get a rhythm. We did what we could." Woods and Sorenstam were two-up after seven, but Duval and Webb won three holes in a row to take the lead for the first time at the 11th.

At the 11th, Woods's tee shot was caught in the branches of a bush several inches off the ground. Sorenstam played it from there through the fairway and Woods missed the green from the rough.

"I hit a lot of different shots," Sorenstam said. "Left-handed, all different kinds of things." Woods and Sorenstam got back to all-square at the 12th, and both teams parred the par-three 13th.

Webb and Duval went one-up with a par at 14, where Sorenstam missed a putt that picked up speed and rolled off the green, leaving Woods to chip back from 28 yards.

"I was trying to lag it," she said. "I had 20 feet and 30 feet of break." Sorenstam was short with a seven-footer at 17 that would have squared the match. Those struggles made the putt at 18 to force the play-off all the sweeter, she said.

"It was a little difficult to read the greens with this light, so I needed some help," said Sorenstam, who talked things over with Woods. "I hit one of those good putts and it was in all the way."

Sorenstam and Webb were flying off immediately for the British Women's Open this week, but both said they were glad they made the detour through California.

"I figure I hit enough bad shots today, I don't have any left for the rest of the week," Webb quipped.

"We're going to get in late to the British Open, but it was a great opportunity," Sorenstam said.