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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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