Charley Hoffman storms to Boston win

American Charley Hoffman, ranked only 132nd in the world, produced the performance of his life to win the second of the FedEx Cup play-off events in Boston.

England's Luke Donald will look back at what might have been after leading by two seven holes into his final round in the Deutsche Bank Championship, but Hoffman was in a league of his own. The 33-year-old with only one win in his previous 297 US Tour events had an incredible 11 birdies for a closing 62, his career low score, and five-shot victory. Nobody else on the day scored better than 65.

Donald, one of Colin Montgomerie's three wild card picks for the Ryder Cup, went to the turn in 33, but had a hat-trick of bogeys from the 14th and fell back to joint second with Australians Jason Day and Geoff Ogilvy. Tiger Woods remains world No 1 after finishing with three birdies for a 68 and 10-under total of 274 to move up into a tie for 11th. That was a massive 12 strokes adrift of Hoffman, but once again Phil Mickelson and Steve Stricker missed the chance to take over at the top. Stricker had to win, and from fourth after 54 holes he shot 71 to slip to ninth, while Mickelson, for whom a top-three finish would have done it, crashed from sixth to 25th with a scrappy 76.