When Haas reached his ball, though, he realized he had a shot. "An all-or-nothing shot," he called it. The ball was only halfway submerged. Haas decided to treat it like a bunker shot and blast out. With his right foot in the water, that's what he did.
The ball came out perfectly. Incredibly, it even had some spin on it, going by the pin and suddenly stopping less than three feet away. Haas would save par. Mahan would miss his birdie putt. "I couldn't buy a putt today," Mahan would later say.
On to the third playoff hole, the par-3 18th. A few minutes later, when Haas managed par from the fringe while Mahan failed to get up-and-down from the bunker, the 29-year-old son of Jay Haas won for the third time in his career and the first time this year, having lost two previous playoffs during the regular season.
He also won the FedExCup -- although he didn't know it at the time. Haas said he was aware that the money was on the line, but he didn't realize for sure he had won it until he saw both the TOUR Championship trophy and the FedExCup trophy "and there was no other player" around to claim one of them.
He looked at his wife to confirm. She nodded his head. The $10 million bonus was his, as well as the $1.44 million that goes to the tournament winner. - http://www.pgatour.com
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