Lee Westwood just misses out on play-off

It's Tiger v Rocco over 18
holes for US Open title

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Tiger Woods forced an 18-hole play-off with fellow American Rocco Mediate for the US Open title on the final hole of the fourth round at Torrey Pines.
High drama on the 18th saw both Woods and England's Lee Westwood with tricky putts to join Mediate on one under but after Westwood missed the first, the world number one sank his with his customary coolness.
Both men will return in the morning to battle it out over a full round, though Woods will go into the day's play as heavy favourite.
With Mediate holding a one-stroke lead and watching from a scoring booth, Woods holed a 15-foot birdie putt on 18 to take the championship into an extra day.
"Unbelievable, I knew he would make it," Mediate said after Woods' putt rattled around the cup before dropping.
Mediate shot an level-par 71 to finish at a one-under-par 283, while Woods, a little off colour for much of the fourth round as he clearly struggled with an injury, played his first two holes in three over and signed for a 73.
Woods entered Sunday at three under and with a one-stroke lead over Westwood, but he never got in a consistent rhythm, carding his worst round of the week.
Westwood finished a stroke out of the play-off alone in third at level par overall.
LEE WESTWOOD JUST MISSES PLAY-OFF
Lee Westwood was one shot and a matter of inches away from taking his bid to become the first English major winner since 1996 into Monday's 18-hole play-off.
Westwood finished third on even par after missing with a tricky 20-foot putt which would have seen him join Rocco Mediate and Tiger Woods in the extra round.
"While I'm disappointed, I'm pleased with myself and I think that I've proved to myself and a few others that there is a major championship in me," said the 35-year-old after carding an even-par 71 at Torrey Pines.
"It's sickening not the be in the play-off but all in all I played pretty well all week and if somebody had said 'you're going to have a chance from 20 feet for a play-off' I would probably have taken that at the start of the week."
Westwood, who started the day one stroke behind Woods, bogeyed the first hole but was rock solid for the rest of the front nine, gathering seven straight pars before making birdie at the par-five ninth.
He started the back nine in front, but the next hour prove costly at he ran up three bogeys in four holes due to some ragged shots, before stemming the flow with a tap-in birdie at the 14th, where he almost drove onto the green. He needed one more birdie down the stretch, to join the Mediate on one under par but it was not to be.
He left himself a tough putt at the last and explained that he intentionally hit his third shot long because he did not want to take any chances of his ball sucking back into the pond guarding the putting surface.
But the real problem was that his second shot, a lay-up from the fairway bunker, ended a little too close to the hole.
"I was looking for something like 96 or 97 yards to the front (of the green) and I got 100," said Westwood. "I was caught between sand iron and lob wedge (for the third shot) and I don't really want to hit lob wedge hard, because anything coming back fast down that green and it's in the drink."
Westwood, who carded 73 to finish at even-par 284, recorded his best major result, but Nick Faldo remains the last Englishman to win a major, having triumphed in the 1996 Masters.