FanHouse Steve Flesch

I'm not sure if the word clutch really justifies what just happened at Oakland Hills.

On the back nine of a major for the second consecutive time, Irishman and constant lip bitter Padraig Harrington fired another 32 that included one of the better putts you'll ever see to capture the PGA Championship.

Harrington had never finished in the top-10 at a PGA, but that all changed with consecutive 66s on a marathon day in Michigan, topping Sergio Garcia and Ben Curtis by two shots.

The cyst of the course at Oakland Hills is 16, 17 and 18, and Harrington made putts on those three that you can only dream about. First came the 16th, where Padraig hit an uncharacteristicly bad iron shot from the fairway, leaving himself a 15-footer for par. Dead center there was strike one. Next came the par-3 17th, where he hit one of the better shots of the day and rolled that right in the heart for birdie. Strike two. Finally, the par-4 18th, that had yielded just one birdie all day, and that was a holed shot from Steve Flesch. A bad drive, an even worse fairway bunker shot followed up with a solid iron shot to 15-feet left him a par putt he cashed for the win. Strike three, Sergio's out.

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• Johan Edfors -- CUT -- A Swedish golfer who spends most of his time on the other side of the Atlantic, Edfors won three times on the European Tour in 2006. Also, a known long hitter around Europe (16th on tour) won't hurt on a course that can be stretched to 7,600 yards.

• John Ellis -- DNP -- Red hot on the Canadian Tour, Ellis has played in five tournaments this season, winning two and finishing in the top-10 in the other three.

• Ernie Els (above) -- WON -- It's pretty strange to think Els has won two U.S. Opens, both before I was even in high school ('94 and '97). Maybe a telling stat for the caliber of player Els used to be, he has 27 top-10s in majors and three wins.

• Sean English -- DNP -- English has played one PGA Tour event, the 2004 PGA Championship, missing the cut. He landed a spot on the driving range at Torrey Pines with a 64 in the first round of sectional qualifying.

• Niclas Fasth -- 4 -- Just typing his name gives me a lisp. If somebody told you in 2001, after David Duval won and Fasth finished second at the British Open that Fasth would be around longer than Duval, how much would you have bet? $600? $5,000? Your 401K?
  

• Derek Fathauer (a) -- DNP -- The University of Louisville senior got through sectionals in one of the toughest qualifying spots around, beating the likes of Davis Love III, Pat Perez and Rocco Mediate, to name a few.

• Fernando Figueroa -- DNP -- If you're thinking this was the 1907 to 1911 President of El Salvador, boy do you have the wrong Fernando Figueroa. This guy played golf at North Carolina and shot a 62 in local qualifying to make it to sectionals.

• Ross Fisher -- DNP -- Another European Tour members playing in his first U.S. Open, Fisher won a Jaguar in a 2006 tournament for closest to the pin. Currently Fisher is 20th on the Order of Merit and has the free-est Jaguar of anyone in golf.

• Steve Flesch -- t-7 -- It's interesting to look at results for the U.S. Open and see a guy finished 84th in the 1993 championship. They let 84 guys on the weekend? Really? Only three top-10s in major championship history, with one being at this year's Masters.

• Alastair Forsyth -- DNP -- Winner of the "Most Likely to Become a Famous British Author" award for his name, Forsyth won earlier this year on the European Tour and is now the highest ranked Scottish golfer, overtaking Colin Montgomerie.