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Beem never flinched.
"I'm still surprised at myself," Beem said. "I'm elated beyond belief. I was a lot more in control of my emotions than I ever have been under that kind of pressure."
Unlikely champion Beem tops Woods on PGA tour
Beem hit a 5-wood to within 6 feet for an eagle on the 11th hole to seize control, then put the finishing touches on a fearless round by rolling in a 35-foot birdie putt on No. 16 to thwart a final charge from Woods.
CHASKA,Minn. — Playing as if he had nothing to lose, Rich Beem buried Tiger Woods and captured a PGA Championship even he thought he had no business winning.
Beem stared down the world's best player under the stiffling pressure of a major championship at Hazeltine on Sunday, closing with a 4-under 68 for a one-stroke victory over Woods.
Seven years ago. Beem was selling car stereos and cell phones for $7 an hour. Even after the third round, he said guys like him weren't supposed to win majors.
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Woods did his part. Unwilling to give up after back-to-back bogeys, Woods birdied the final four holes to keep alive fleeting hopes of becoming the first player to win the three U.S. majors in the same year.
Surprise!
He finished off his incredible round with a harmless three-petit bogey on the 18th, lifted his arms and did a shimmy shake under the bright skies of Minnesota before taking a bow.
Woods watched the final putt on a television in the scoring trailer. He had told caddie Steve Williams that four birdies on the final four holes would be enough to win the tournament.
"I went ahead and birdied out, and we didn't win," Woods said. "At least I gave it my best effort. We just came out a little bit short."
Woods closed with a 67, matching the best score of the day.
What set Beem apart from a long list of surprising winners — John Daly, Wayne Grady, Mark Brooks — was the guv chasing him.
Chris Riley shot a 70 and was another stroke back, his best finish in a major and good for a trip to the Masters next year.
The season's final major has seen this before. Beem, who finished at 10-under 278, became the 12th player to make the PGA Championship his first major victory.
guy chasing All year long, past major winners like Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer have complained that too many players wilt when they see Woods' name on the leaderboard.
board.
Woods showed up quickly with three birdies and two amazing pairs on the front nine, putting him just one stroke behind Beem with nine holes to play.
And Beem didn't buckle. He simply continued to blast awav.
Hitting driver on just about every hole and attacking the pins, Beem turned a one-stroke advantage into a six-stroke lead over Woods in a matter of four holes.
The biggest was his 5-wood second shot on the 597 yard 11th hole.
"Come on! Come on!" Beem yelled as the ball soared over a cluster of bunkers, landed on the front of the green and didn't stop rolling until it was 6 feet from the cup. He made that for eagle to get to 10 under.
knew who was on key. A scoreboard was directly behind the cup on No. 13 as Woods stood over a 12-foot birdie putt that would have pulled him within two strokes of the lead. Instead, he three-putted for bogey, then dropped another shot on the next hole.
Woods played in the group ahead of Beem, although he knew who was on top.
PGA CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL SCORES
Rich Beem -10 $990,000
Tiger Woods -9 $594,000
Chris Riley -5 $374,000
Fred Funk -4 $235,000
Justin Leonard -4 $235,000
Rocco Mediate -3 $185,000
Mark Calcavecchia -2 $172,000
Vijay Singh -1 $159,000
Jim Furyk E $149,000
Jose Coceres +1 $110,714.29
Steve Lowery +1 $110,714.29
Pierre Fulke +1 $110,714.29
Ricardo Gonzalez +1 $110,714.29
Sergio Garcia +1 $110,714.29
Stewart Cink +1 $110,714.29
Robert Allenby +1 $110,714.29
The key putt came on No. 16, the hole where Payne Stewart won the 1991 U.S. Open at Hazeltine. Beem begged his 9-iron to clear a marsh on the corner of Lake Hazeltine, and it barely did. His 35-foot birdie putt was true.
Beem pumped his fist and heaved his ball in celebration.
Beem keeps a bottle of antacid in his bag and takes a swig before the round to calm his nerves.
pny.
"I had no expectations," Beem said. "I really enjoyed this golf course. I thought I could get around it. But I never expected this."
tion. The best part was still to come. After holing out on the 18th, he jogged over and kissed the Wanamaker Trophy.
swig beneath the floor. Give the man a bottle of champagne. He's the toast of golf.
Not bad for a guy who gave up the game in 1995 and decided he was better off in a blue-collar job.
He was called a "one-hit wonder" when he won the Kemper Open as a rookie in 1999, especially when he didn't have any top 10s the next year and only narrowly kept his job for this season.
Beem collected $990,000 and a five-year exemption on the PGA Tour and to the three other majors. He can return to the PGA Championship as long as he likes
"To win a major, you have to have something special," he said Saturday evening. "And I don't know if I have it."
He does now.
the water — and he never gave it back. "He just trusted and believed in himself and he got the job done." Woods said. "Sometimes it may be a benefit to be a little naive in a situation."
Leonard had been in that situation before, but simply didn't have the game Sunday to stay with Beem.
Beem took the lead for the first time with a bogey on No. 8 — Justin Leonard made double bogey by hitting into the water — and he never gave it back.
The '97 British Open champion, and a runner-up at Carnoustie three years ago, Leonard struggled to hit fairways and greens. His three-stroke lead was gone after four holes, and he wound up with a 77, tied for fourth with Fred Funk (73) at 284.
He chipped in for par on the first hole, and had an even better save on No. 8. From thick rough between two bunkers to a downhill pin with water behind the green. Woods hit a flop shot that stopped within a foot of the hole.
It was reminiscent of Woods' battle with unheralded Bob May at Valhalla two years ago at the PGA, which Woods finally won in a playoff for his third straight major.
Beem was even better than that, and Woods made two mistakes that proved costly.
Woods started the day five shots off the lead but got into contention with three birdies and two big pars.
Despite Beem's victory two weeks ago in the International, not many people knew him or expected much out of him in a major championship.
He was one stroke out of the lead, with nine holes to play against a former stereo salesman, and all signs pointed to his ninth major championship.
They will now.
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VAUDEREIL DORION, Quebec
-Meg Mallon, taking advantage of a triple boby on the back nine by Catriona Matthew, shot a 1-over-73 on Sunday to win the windswept Canadian Women's Open.
Mallon comes from behind wins Canadian Women's Open
It marked the 10th time Mallon has come from behind in the final round to win and was her 14th career victory. She finished at 4-under 284 and earned $180,000.
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Matthew,
who began
the day with
a one-shot
lead over
Mallon,
was unable
to recover
from a disastrous 12th hole, even though Mallon gave her the opportun-
nity with three boges on her final six holes. Matthew, from Scotland, finished with a 79 for a 1 under total, tying Michelle Ellis of Australia and Michele Redman for second.
Se Ri Pak of South Korea was alone at even-par 288. Charlotta Sorenstam of Sweden and Gloria Park of South Korea finished another stroke back.
It only briefly sprinkled on Sunday, but as predicted the nasty wind returned with a vengeance, gusting over 50 mph all day and playing havoc with every shot at Summerlea Golf and Country Club. The top 10
players combined for 33 bogeys, four double bogeys and one triple bogey, and only Canadian Lorie Kane broke par (71).
The wind made every hole see like Summerlea's signature hole. That distinction, however, belongs to the 344-yard, par-4 No. 12, with its hard-sloping green and narrow fairway, and it was Matthew's undoing. After going 1 under at 12 through the first three rounds, she drove into the teeth of the wind, and it swept the ball out of sight into the left trees.
Forced to take a drop, which cost her a penalty stroke. Matthew managed to chip onto the fairway and put her fourth shot on the fringe. She chipped to 7 feet but needed two putts to get down and dropped to 4 under.
Mallon, who had birdied 11 to move into a tie for the lead, had her problems on the hole, too, when her putt for birdie rolled well past the hole and the wind kept pushing if farther away. When she went to mark it, it rolled some more, nearly costly her a penalty, and she ended up with bogey.
Mallon bowed 13, too, but Mattiew's tricky 5-foot putt for par on the rim hirmed the cup and stayed out as she squatted and turned her head in frustration. Matthew never recovered, carding bogey at Nos. 15 and 18.
Matthew, who ended the third round with two straight birdies, made it three in a row at No. 1 to open a two-shot lead over Mallon, whose first drive of the day landed in a fairway bunker.
Matthew, used to playing in the wind in her native Scotland, continued her steady play with 10 straight pars. Mallon managed par at No. 1 and moved within one shot of the lead with a birdie at the sixth hole.
Pak, who began the day three shots behind, took herself out of contention early with a disastrous double bogey at the par-5 third hole.
at the palace. Pak's second shot landed in the right rough some 50 yards in front of the elevated green. Her third shot landed about two-thirds of the way up the hill in front of the green, then rolled slowly back down as she bit her lower lin in dismay.
The agony wasn't over. She also pulled her next shot and it didn't make the green, either. She barely made it on the green with her next shot, then two-putted to drop to 1 under. A bogey at No. 4 put her at even par and her day was done.
park, who almost dropped out of the tournament on Thursday because of a cold and sinus troubles, also bogeyed the fourth hole to drop to 2 under. But she birdied No. 7 and held a chip for eagle at the par-5 ninth hole to move to 5 under and within two shots of the lead.
The rally was short-lived. She boyed 10 and 12 and had double bogey at 13 to end her chances.
Karrie Webb, who was four shots behind at the start of play, bogeyed twice in the first four holes to fall back to even par. She rallied back to 2 under with consecutive birdies on Nos. 7 and 8, but a double bogey at 10 spoiled any chance at the title. She finished at 292 after a closing 78.
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