Just wanted to give you the atmosphere from the 18th hole at yesterday's Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.

Those of us in the local media who were there were assembled behind the 18th green. So, while we knew Phil Mickelson had driven the ball well left into the trees, we couldn't see him make his approach shot on 18 because of all the tree cover. So, after he surveyed the shot and went back towards the ball, we waited and watched the sky waiting for something to happen. Well, he hit the ball so high and we were looking into a high sky that most of us didn't see the ball until it was about 25 feet in the air coming darn near straight down. And let me tell you this, when that ball hit the green and finished up about 8 feet from the hole, the green side crown went nuts!!!

And the organizers at Colonial and the Crowne Plaza executives must have thought that shot was heaven sent. Having a champion with Mickelson's pedigree is exactly what the folks at Colonial wanted and needed.

Flower Mound resident Rod Pampling should be commended for playing his guts out in front of a partisan crowd yelling for Mickelson nearly all the way. But thanks to some incredible shot-making by Pampling his buddies from Bridlewood had more than a few occasions to let their roars be heard.

All-in-all, it was a great finishing round, and a story-book ending for our friends in Fort Worth. Congrats on a job well done!

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