Weir staggered to a 78, his worst Sunday showing since shooting 80 in the 1999 PGA Championship, and dropped all the way to third after starting the day sharing a five-stroke cushion with eventual Arron Oberholser winner.
Oberholser won the event, despite struggling down the stretch, shooting an even-par 72 and earning a five shot victory that came complete with a cheque for $972,000 US.
It didn't take long for the gremlins to attack Weir. The Bright's Grove, Ont., native hooked his approach on the par-5 second hole, watched it bounce off a road, miss any obstacles that might have intervened and eventually land out of bounds. He took a double bogey.
Mike Weir had one of the worst final rounds of his career, Sunday at Pebble Beach. (CP Photos)
Not satisfied with that disaster, he then lifted a wedge clear over the third green for another bogey, pretty much ending his day.
And then there was Oberholser, falling apart in the late going after leading by as many as six strokes. He had bogeyed the 13th after hitting a fairway bunker, and added another bogey on 14 by finding a tree in the right rough from which he had to punch out sideways.
Which put him on the 15th tee, probably wondering if the course he grew up playing was going to bite him at the worst moment. This time, Oberholser's shot went away to the right, landed on a road and, unlike Weir's unlucky try, clonked a tree and kicked back into an opening that gave him a perfect view of the green.
He birdied the hole and sailed in from there.
Rory Sabbatini finished five shots back for second, after firing a 70.
with files from CP Online
