Monday, June 22, 2009 1:04 pm (Eastern)

1:20 pm

The USGA moved the tee way up on the 18th hole, but they didn't make it too easy. Players could blow their tee shots past the fairway bunkers with a 3-wood or driver, but that left them with about a 50-yard pitch to a pin cut near the front.

It wasn't an easy shot to get close, and Phil Mickelson and David Duval both knocked it about 30 feet past when they needed a birdie to apply pressure to Lucas Glover.

It created an interesting choice for Glover on the tee. After making a crucial two-putt par on the 17th hole, he had a two-shot lead and selected an iron which he fit between the fairway bunkers and into the fairway.

Barnes got his second shot closer than Mickelson and Duval, about 20 feet, and hit an excellent putt which burned the left edge.

That left it to Glover, who two-putted from the fringe on 18 and claimed the victory by playing the last three holes better than any of the other contenders.

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