The final round of the US Open promises to be a thriller, with young gun Dustin Johnson leading, Graeme McDowell hoping to end Europe's 40-year drought and Tiger Woods eyeing a 15th major title...
England's world number eight Ian Poulter's tournament really came to an end when he had a tantrum on the seventh on Saturday and he fell apart down the stretch on Sunday for a final-round 78
Three-time major champion Padraig Harrington never really got anything going this week and finished tied for 22nd after a final-round 73, including three birdies and five bogeys
World number six Luke Donald began the week solidly enough with a 71 but rounds of 75 and 74 ended his challenge and it didn't get any better on Sunday, a round of 78 sending him tumbling down the leaderboard
Three-time winner Woods gets off to a less than ideal start with a bogey at the first but makes a great par save on the second before another bogey on the fourth - he's a different animal to Saturday
The tournament is turned on its head when leader Dustin Johnson flunks a couple of chips to make a triple-bogey seven at the second and loses a ball on the third on the way to a double bogey
Ernie Els (left) and Phil Mickelson are playing together in the third from last group and South African Els joins McDowell in the lead with a birdie on the sixth
Second-round leader McDowell, three behind Johnson overnight, plots a calm course as those around him lose their heads and the Northern Irishman picks up a shot at the fifth to lead on his own
France's Gregory Havret, the world number 391, is holding firm, unlike playing partner Woods, and is second behind McDowell and three off the lead through 10 holes
Tom Watson, winner at Pebble Beach in 1982, rolls back the years and turns on the tears with another stirring display. Sixty-years-old and he still manages a top-30 finish in probably his final US Open appearance
World number one Woods makes a birdie at seven but drops shots at eight, 10 and 12 to effectively end his challenge. Still, he manages to limp home in fourth, a finish most in the field would have cherished
Mickelson, who could have taken Woods' number one spot this week, birdies the first but is strangely muted thereafter. He doesn't pick up another shot all round and finishes tied for fourth with Woods
Two-time winner Els comes a cropper at the 10th, sending his ball over the cliff and carding double bogey. The expected fightback never materialises and he finishes two shots off the lead
While McDowell's playing partner Johnson disintegrates at the business end of the tournament, Havret thrives, getting to within one shot of leader McDowell with a handful of holes to play
But McDowell keeps it together down the stretch, putting dropped shots behind him at 14 and 17 and two-putting from 20 feet at the last to win the tournament by a single stroke from Havret
McDowell is the first European to win the US Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970 and the first Northern Irishman to win a major since Fred Daly, who also hailed from Portrush, won the Open in 1947
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