Mickelson or Duval should have won

it but Glover, yet another 'no-name'

is crowned US Open champion

To paraphrase the remark by Davis Love - although he later denied it - that the 1999 Open at Carnoustie got the champion it deserved (Paul Lawrie), the 2009 United States Open got the champion it deserved.
Lucas Glover joined a long roster of American "no-names" such as Scott Simpson, Andy North and Lee Janzen to have won this great championship.

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By Mark Reason in Farmingdale, New York
It was Lucas Glover's first major win but let's make no mistake about it. He deserved to be champion. When experienced men such as Phil Mickelson and David Duval capsized down the stretch, Glover had the poise to keep floating his boat.
Mickelson was distraught as he headed off last night to join his family for their last holiday before wife Amy undergoes treatment for breast cancer. He had caught Glover when he eagled the 13th hole, but a three-putt on the 15th sank Mickelson and the New York crowd.
Amy had asked Phil to bring back the US Open trophy for her hospital room, but the emotion of the effort was too much for Mickelson. He has now finished second five times in the US Open, a record for a man who has never won the championship.
You wonder now whether he ever will. It took Mickelson 20 minutes to come round and when he did speak his voice often cracked with emotion. "I put myself in a great position but didn't finish it off – disappointed. This 'second' is more in perspective for me. I feel different."
Englishman Ross Fisher, 28, played as well as anyone from tee to green on the final day, but his putting lurched from hopeful to hopeless. It is the short game that often separates major champions but Fisher, who finished alone in fifth place, still looks like a man who will one day win a big one.
He said afterwards: "What an experience, coming to New York, I can't say enough for the crowd. I'll probably go home and work on my putting. I felt if I'd holed just a couple of putts I'd have won this comfortably. I've hit the ball better than I've ever done."
But what of Glover, the new champion? He had only one previous victory on the US PGA Tour, when he holed an 80-yard bunker shot at the final hole to win the 2005 Funai Classic. But he had never so much as finished in the top 10 of a major and he had even made the cut at the US Open.
The grandson of a former Pittsburgh Steeler (American grid-iron footballer), Glover, 29, is a good ol' southern boy who likes to read. You do not get many of those to the dollar in the US PGA Tour ranks. Glover revealed that he had read four books this week, something of a record for a professional golfer.
Glover lists the best of them as The Lost City of Z, about Percy Fawcett, "the last of the great Victorian explorers who ventured into uncharted realms with little more than a machete, a compass and an almost divine sense of purpose."
The same may be said of Glover, who made seven pars and a birdie, coming home with an antique belief in his destiny.
"We knew Tiger and Phil would make a move. We were waiting on it. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous. The old knees were knocking pretty good. I dreamed about this as a kid and here I stand. I held it together," he said.
Overnight we thought this sodden US Open might turn into the 1812 Overture without the cannon fire, but for the first couple of hours of Monday morning it was more like chopsticks played on a honky-tonk piano. The standard of golf was dreadful.
Glover lost his right footing on one drive and almost fell over. Mickelson took an iron off the tee for safety and blasted his ball into the wavy fescue. Fisher missed a putt from 18 inches. Then there was Ricky Barnes, or 'Rickety Barnes' as one New York headline dubbed him.
Jack Nicklaus used to say that majors were the easiest tournaments to win because most of the field would beat themselves. Barnes trounced himself. Now we know the other reason why Tiger Woods wins so many majors.
Woods had a brief chance in the final round, but he was undone by the 15th hole for the third time. Sounding like the middle-aged bore in the corner of the clubhouse, Woods said: "As well as I hit it, to miss that many putts ... I've missed them all week. My good putts aren't going in and my bad putts aren't even close. I gave myself so many chances. I made nothing." And so on.
If Woods thinks he was hard done by, then Hunter Mahan and David Duval were put through fate's mincing machine. Mahan, another future major winner, saw his ball hit the pin on the 16th and ricochet off the green. Duval was interred in a bunker on the third hole and it cost him a triple bogey.
But fate also cuffed Woods. He won the bad-weather side of the draw by a shot from Henrik Stenson. The top five all came from the sunnier side and were probably four shots better off. For Woods that was the difference between a top 10 and a play-off.
Glover had started the day with a five-shot lead over the field at seven under par alongside co-leader Ricky Barnes as the rain-delayed championship moved into a fifth day at Bethpage Black. ========================
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Barnes disintegrated with six bogeys in seven holes and Glover was caught by Mickelson and David Duval at four under and three under, while England's Ross Fisher also challenged.
In the end Glover finished with a 73 for a four-under-par total of 276, winner by two shots from three men on 278: Ricky Barnes (76), Phil Mickelson (70) and David Duval (71).
Ross Fisher came fifth on 279 with a closing 72.
Tiger Woods who broke 70 in the second, third and fourth rounds after starting with a 74, finished joint sixth on 280 - only four shots behind winner Glover - alongside Hunter Mahan and Soren Hansen.
Aberdeen-born Australian Michael Sim, the leading money-winner on the US Nationwide Tour, finished joint 18th on 284 with four steady rounds in the low 70s.

HOW THEY FINISHED
Par 280 (4x70)
276 Lucas Glover 69 64 70 73
278 Ricky Barnes 67 65 70 76, Phil Mickelson 69 70 69 70, David Duval 67 70 70 71
279 Ross Fisher (Eng) 70 68 69 72
280 Hunter Mahan 72 68 68 72, Tiger Woods 74 69 68 69, Soren Hansen (Den) 70 71 70 69
281 Henrik Stenson (Swe) 73 70 70 68
282 Rory McIlroy (NIrl) 72 70 72 68, Mike Weir (Can) 64 70 74 74, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 70 70 72 70, Matt Bettencourt 75 67 71 69, Stephen Ames (Can) 74 66 70 72, Ryan Moore 70 69 72 71
283 Anthony Kim 71 71 71 70, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 73 68 68 74
284 Peter Hanson (Swe) 66 71 73 74, Michael Sim (Sco) 71 70 71 72, Graeme McDowell (NIrl) 69 72 69 74, Ian Poulter (Eng) 70 74 73 67, Bubba Watson 72 70 67 75
285 Steve Stricker 73 66 72 74, Sean O'Hair 69 69 71 76, Oliver Wilson (Eng) 70 70 71 74, Lee Westwood (Eng) 72 66 74 73
286 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 71 70 74 71, Vijay Singh (Fij) 72 72 73 69, Azuma Yano (Jpn) 72 65 77 72, J.B. Holmes 73 67 73 73, Stewart Cink 73 69 70 74, Johan Edfors (Swe) 70 74 68 74
287 Jim Furyk 72 69 74 72, Kevin Sutherland 71 73 73 70, Camilo Villegas (Col) 71 71 72 73
288 Adam Scott (Aus) 69 71 73 75, Todd Hamilton 67 71 71 79, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 75 68 73 72, Nick Taylor (Can) (amateur) 73 65 75 75
289 Dustin Johnson 72 69 76 72, Billy Mayfair 73 70 72 74, Tim Clark (Rsa) 73 71 74 71, Drew Weaver (amateur) 69 72 74 74
290 Kenny Perry 71 72 75 72
291 John Mallinger 71 70 72 78, Thomas Levet (Fra) 72 72 71 76
292 Andres Romero (Arg) 73 70 77 72, K J Choi (Kor) 72 71 76 73, Gary Woodland 73 66 76 77, Tom Lehman 71 73 74 74, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 73 67 77 75, Rocco Mediate 68 73 79 72
293 Kyle Stanley (amateur) 70 74 74 75
294 Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 73 71 75 75, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 74 69 75 76, Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 71 72 75 76
296 Ben Curtis 72 71 74 79
297 Jeff Brehaut 70 72 81 74, Trevor Murphy 71 69 77 80
301 Fred Funk 70 74 75 82