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  • So unlike TV golf regulars CBS and NBC, it had to pull together a team that included on-air veterans who have worked together, but not regularly anymore, to cover Tom Watson coming within a final-hole yip of a historic win.

    ESPN/ABC in the rough on British Open coverage 2009

  • Why he can win a major: Considered for years by most golf experts to be the best player without a major, Garcia, who has 19 pro wins, including the 2008 Players Championship, was within an eyelash of winning the 2007 British Open when his final-hole putt spun out.

    Who's next for breakthrough in major? 12 players to watch 2010

  • Down to Woods having a final-hole putt to force a playoff — with the law of gravity seemingly hanging in the balance — order was finally restored.

    Woods brings out top ratings for U.S. Open 2008

  • Beneath ashen skies by the shores of the North Sea and until his final-hole collapse in regulation, Harrington was flawless in making up the six-shot deficit at the start of the final round.

    Harrington beats Garcia for British Open win 2007

  • Although Mickelson made a hole-in-one on the par-3 16th, Ramsay pulled out the match with a final-hole par.

    Masters notes: Amateur Ramsay sticks with Mickelson 2007

  • The year before it was Mr. Mickelson, coughing up a final-hole lead and the championship with a double-bogey on 18 just two years after he three-putted No. 17 at Shinnecock Hills to lose to the machine-like South African, Retief Goosen.

    Why the Robot Always Wins 2009

  • After the horrible final-hole Winged Foot drive, instead of punching out safely to the fairway and playing for at worst a tying bogey, Mr. Mickelson gambled and lost on a nearly impossible shot over a tree.

    The Roar of ... Phil 2008

  • It's unlikely there will be a final-hole water fiasco in 2000.

    Van de Velde eyes another swing in Britain 2000

  • Adam Scott had one of the least disastrous final-hole stretches, but he nonetheless gave away a stroke on the 15th hole.

    NYT > Home Page By BILL PENNINGTON 2011

  • The tournament had narrowed to a final-hole shoot-out.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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