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Campbell edges Woods as top seeds crash out at La Costa
 
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No big deal, right?

But the Aussie birdied the 16th, won the 17th with a par and the 18th with a two-putt birdie. Ogilvy went to extra holes for the third straight round, and won on the 21st hole with an approach to 4 feet for eagle on the par-5 third.

Still, the buzz -- or what was left of it at La Costa -- was Campbell beating the No. 1 player in the world. He is playing so well that his last two opponents did not make a bogey and still got beat.

"I didn't play badly," Woods said. "Chad played really good. He made a lot more birdies than me, made more putts than I did. I had my opportunities to put pressure on him by making putts, and I didn't do it."

Campbell made a 20-foot birdie on the 10th to go 3-up, but the momentum didn't last long. Woods chipped in for eagle on the 11th, and won the 12th when Campbell missed the par-3 green to the left and failed to save par.

"When you've got a 3-up lead through 10, that's a pretty good lead," Campbell said. "Standing on the 13th tee only being 1 up, you're pretty disappointed."

But he came through in a big way, hitting an 8-iron that stayed on the top shelf, 8 feet away, and making the birdie to restore his margin. Despite a double bogey on the 14th, he only lost a hole, not the lead. And he kept that lead to the very end until Woods was forced to produce a birdie he didn't have.

Woods' tee shot sailed far to the right into the rough, leaving 244 yards to the front of a green protected by a small creek. He didn't have much of a choice.

"I couldn't hardly see him through the gallery," said Campbell, whose tee shot found a bunker and forced him to lay up. "I was expecting to see something come out of the gallery and onto the green."

Not on this day.

Woods even had the advantage of getting a read off Campbell's 25-foot birdie putt, so much on the same line that Woods had to move his marker. That didn't help, though, as Woods' putt bounced from the start.

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