MELBOURNE, (Reuters) - Tiger Woods celebrated his  first visit Down Under in 11 years with a win at the Australian  Masters yesterday, the world number one banishing his swing  demons in time to hold off a dogged local field by two strokes.

Woods, joint leader overnight with Australia’s James  Nitties and Greg Chalmers, carded a four-under 68 to finish  with a 14-under total of 274 in bright sunshine at Kingston  Heath Golf Club.

Chalmers finished second on 276, with American Jason Dufner  and France’s Francois Delamontagne two shots further back at  the A$1.5 million ($1.4 million) co-sanctioned tournament.

“It was a great day today,” Woods, wearing the tournament’s  ‘gold jacket’, told reporters after a five-birdie one-bogey  round that was followed by a large share of the 25,000  spectators at Kingston Heath.

“Now I’ve won on every continent which is nice, except for  Antarctica … To have won on every playable continent is  something I’ve always wanted to do, and now I’ve done that.”

After wayward driving and putting saw Woods cast a dejected  figure on Saturday, the 14-times major champion quickly found  his groove during the final round with a birdie on the par-five  first after splitting the fairway with his drive.

A pair of sublime iron shots on the fifth and sixth holes  — the first landing within three feet of the pin, the next two  feet closer — put Woods two strokes clear of the field.