Sean O'Hair wins at Quail Hollow,

Tiger Woods only fourth

Sean O'Hair almost let another tournament slip through his fingers before winning the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina yesterday.
O'Hair, who was overhauled by Tiger Woods in the Bay Hill Invitational earlier this season after starting the final round with a five-shot lead, carded a closing 69 to finish 11 under for a one-shot victory over fellow Americans Lucas Glover and Bubba Watson.
O'Hair held a two-shot lead with two to play after superb birdies at the 15th and 16th, but then bogeyed the 17th and 18th, three-putting the latter from 25ft. However, in the group behind, Glover also missed the 17th green in almost the exact same spot as O'Hair had and also failed to get up and down to save par.
That left Glover needing to birdie the last to force a play-off but he overshot the green with his approach and could not produce the dramatic chip-in required.
Tiger Woods finished alone in fourth place on nine under, the world number one never hitting top form and carding nine pars on the back nine, including the 14th after driving the green on the short par-4 only to three-putt.
Ryder Cup star Ian Poulter finished in a large group of players sharing fifth on eight under par after earlier threatening to claim his first US Tour victory.
The 33-year-old, Europe's top scorer at Valhalla last year, was one off the lead after five birdies in six birdies from the seventh, but bogeyed the 14th and 15th before finishing in a style with a long birdie across the 18th green.
Phil Mickelson, needing a win and for Woods to finish worse than fourth to overtake his great rival at the top of the world rankings, had earlier set the clubhouse target on eight under par.
Mickelson slumped to a 75 on Saturday but hit back with a 67 with six birdies and one bogey to join fellow American Jonathan Byrd (66) in the clubhouse.
Ross Fisher drifted to a share of 29th place with a 75 for 284.
And Martin Laird, too, let it slip over the vital last round. A 74 put him back in a tie for 47th place on 288.

FINAL TOTALS

Par 288 (4 x 72)

277 Sean O'Hair 69 72 67 69
278 Lucas Glover 68 71 68 71, Bubba Watson 71 65 72 70
279 Tiger Woods 65 72 70 72
280 Phil Mickelson 67 71 75 67, Jason Dufner 67 71 71 71, Tim Petrovic 71 70 71 68, Ian Poulter (Eng) 71 70 70 69, Ted Purdy 70 69 72 69, Jonathan Byrd 72 72 70 66
281 Zach Johnson 70 67 68 76, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 68 68 72 73, Jim Furyk 71 66 73 71, Fredrik Jacobson (Swe) 71 70 70 70, Boo Weekley 71 70 72 68, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 71 70 69 71, Y.E. Yang (Kor) 72 71 66 72
282 Charles Warren 69 71 71 71, George McNeill 69 68 70 75, Shaun Micheel 74 69 73 66, David Toms 71 71 67 73
283 Nick Watney 71 71 69 72, Hunter Mahan 68 72 75 68, Bill Haas 69 71 71 72, Davis Love III 70 69 70 74, Camilo Villegas (Col) 71 67 74 71, Rocco Mediate 72 70 72 69, Matt Bettencourt 72 71 71 69
284 Ross Fisher (Eng) 73 67 69 75, Cameron Beckman 73 71 72 68, Bo Van Pelt 69 71 71 73
285 Jeff Klauk 69 71 70 75, Joe Ogilvie 71 72 69 73, John Senden (Aus) 71 72 73 69, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 71 73 68 73, Ben Curtis 74 70 71 70, Cliff Kresge 69 72 72 72
286 Danny Lee (Nzl) 71 69 70 76, Brian Davis (Eng) 72 71 72 71, Steve Marino 67 72 74 73, Michael Allen 70 73 72 71, Ken Duke 70 72 73 71, Tom Pernice Jnr. 72 69 77 68
287 Brendon De Jonge 72 69 67 79, Mathew Goggin (Aus) 71 71 74 71, John Huston 73 71 69 74
288 Will MacKenzie 70 74 71 73, Anthony Kim 70 69 78 71, Robert Allenby (Aus) 67 74 77 70, Brendon Todd 70 70 72 76, Martin Laird (Sco) 74 70 70 74, Kevin Sutherland 71 72 75 70
289 Kent Jones 72 70 71 76, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 70 69 78 72, Jonathan Kaye 70 72 74 73, Chris Stroud 73 69 78 69, Jeff Overton 70 71 73 75, Steve Wheatcroft 70 73 77 69
290 Peter Tomasulo 74 69 73 74, Jeff Maggert 68 70 75 77, Steve Lowery 73 71 73 73
291 Chad Campbell 72 70 73 76, John Rollins 70 74 76 71, David Mathis 70 73 72 76
293 Pat Perez 74 70 76 73, Aron Price (Aus) 71 73 78 71, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 73 70 76 74
294 Brad Faxon 74 69 80 71, Parker McLachlin 73 71 74 76
295 Mark Calcavecchia 69 74 74 78, Bill Lunde 72 72 74 77, Steve Flesch 69 74 78 74
296 Gary Woodland 70 74 76 76
302 Rich Beem 71 73 76 82