Tiger Woods earnings to golf Fri, Apr 9 2010 < 1 / 31 > AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson birdied 4 of the last 7 holes to win his fourth vital title, and a third Green Jacket, by 3 shots at the Masters on Sunday.
A cadence at the behind of pacesetting Briton Lee Westwood overnight, the American left-hander dismissed a perfect five-under-par 67 to post a 16-under sum of 272 at a sun-splashed Augusta National.
Cheered on by outrageous galleries together with his mother Amy and 3 young kids as he walked up the 18th fairway, Mickelson put the sign on an romantic feat with an eight-foot birdie putt at the last.
He bearing both arms skywards in delight prior to hugging his caddie, jolt hands with Westwood and afterwards on foot off the immature for a prolonged welcome with his wife, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.
"It feels incredible," a lucent Mickelson pronounced prior to being helped in to the Green Jacket by 2009 hold up Angel Cabrera of Argentina. "I could go on and on as to majority reasons because but to win this tournament, it"s the majority extraordinary feeling.
"I"m really unapproachable of my mother and the quarrel and onslaught she"s been through. It"s been a formidable year and to come out on tip in this contest is really emotional.
"It feels superb and it"s really emotional."
Westwood, who had been looking his lass vital pretension and Britain"s initial given Paul Lawrie won the 1999 British Open, had to solve for second place after carding a 71.
American Anthony Kim sealed with a stimulating 65 to finish third at twelve under, a cadence in front of universe series one Tiger Woods and KJ Choi of South Korea, who returned relating 69s.
"I didn"t get off to a fast sufficient start," pronounced Westwood, who had scored equally for third in his dual prior majors.
"I didn"t expostulate the turn utterly as well currently as I had driven it in the initial 3 rounds.
"I try and take the positives out of everything. I accomplished third, third, second in the last couple of vital championships. I can"t be as well disappointed. I"m removing closer.
Mickelson, who won his initial dual Masters crowns in 2004 and 2006, effectively wrapped up the pretension with back-to-back birdies from the par-three 12th.
He rolled in a curling 14-footer on the 12th green, and afterwards narrowly longed for an eagle putt from only 3 feet at the par-five 13th prior to holing out from a identical area entrance back.
TIGHTENED GRIP
That put him dual strokes transparent prior to he picked up an additional shot at the par-five 15th, where he reached the immature in dual and two-putted, to tie his hold on a third Green Jacket.
Kim began an additional sun-splashed day at Augusta 7 strokes off the gait but he surged in to row with a sizzling birdie-birdie-eagle-birdie run from the 13th.
Choi quickly assimilated Mickelson in a share of the lead with eight holes to fool around prior to slipping behind with bogeys on thirteen and 14.
Four-times hold up Woods, personification his initial eventuality in scarcely five months with his in isolation hold up carrying spectacularly unraveled at the finish of last year, endured a roller-coaster day.
He proposed out feeble with 3 bogeys in the initial five holes prior to he recovered in fantastic fashion.
Woods holed out from the fairway for a overwhelming eagle at the par-four seventh where his turn pitched twenty feet left of the pin prior to solemnly creation the approach down the slant in to the cup.
After a short postponement the universe series one lifted his arms in jubilee prior to violation in to a outrageous smile.
He afterwards birdied the subsequent dual holes, removing up and down from only off the immature at the par-five eighth and rolling in a six-footer at the par-four ninth.
After blending bogeys at the 11th and 14th with a birdie at the 13th, he picked up an additional eagle when he coaxed in a 15-footer at the par-five 15th prior to signing off with a six-foot birdie putt at the last.
(Editing by Greg Stutchbury)
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