Phil Mickelson wins Pebble Beach title as Tiger Woods Falters

Phil Mickelson totally upstaged playing partner Tiger Woods while charging past overnight leader Charlie Wi to win the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in spectacular fashion by two shots on Sunday. Six strokes behind South Korean Wi going into the fi nal round at Pebble Beach Golf Links, Mickelson fi red a fl awless eight-under-par 64 to clinch his 40th victory on the PGA Tour. The American left-hander took control of the tournament with a stunning outward nine of fi ve-under 31 and holed two monster par putts after the turn on the way to a 17-under total of 269. “It feels awesome,” a beaming Mickelson told the Golf Channel. “Hopefully it’s just one of a few this year because I am starting to feel pretty good.” While Mickelson won the pro-am celebrity event for a fourth time, Woods had to settle for joint 15th place after closing with a fi ve-bogey 75 in his bid for a fi rst PGA Tour win in more than two years. Wi, hunting a maiden title on the U.S. circuit, dropped four shots in the fi rst six holes but recovered well, a birdie-birdie-birdie fi nish giving him a 72 and outright second place at 15 under. Woods had been poised for a last-day charge after shooting a 67 on Saturday but missed several putts from inside six feet to tumble out of contention at the same venue where he won the 2000 U.S. Open by a record 15 shots. “I didn’t hit it as bad as the score indicated but I putted awful,” the former world number one said. “As good as I felt on the greens yesterday was as bad as I felt bad today. “I just could not see my lines, I couldn’t get comfortable, I couldn’t get the blade to swing. Anything that I tried to do wasn’t working and consequently I made a ton of mistakes on the greens.”