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Mickelson wins second Masters

(AP)
Updated: 2006-04-10 08:39

But no one did anything to bring Augusta National to life with the drama so many expected.

There was a five-way tie for the lead early in the final round — Mickelson, Couples, Campbell, Rocco Mediate and Miguel Angel Jimenez — all at 4 under before making the turn. But it didn't last.

Mickelson took the outright lead with a long pitch to the par-5 eighth that checked up 2 feet behind the hole for birdie, and everyone else either stalled or spiraled, none worse than Mediate. He hit three balls into Rae's Creek on the par-5 12th — two from in front of the green, one from the bunker behind it — and made 10.

Campbell had a three-putt bogey on the 11th and hit into the water on the 15th trying to reach the green in two. Jimenez fell out of the chase with bogeys on the 10th and 12th, and Clark was lurking until a bogey from the bunker on the 12th.

Mickelson was untouchable, just like Woods was in 2002 after the first big course renovation.