Driscoll failed to heap the pressure back on his rival from 29 feet leaving Johnson to putt out for birdie and the seventh PGA Tour victory of his career.
In Tom Callahan's book on Woods, "His Father's Son, " he writes about the time Woods saw Garcia in the clubhouse watching a TV monitor and trying to cheer a player's putt out of the hole.
After missing the fairways off the tees and making bogeys at No. 18 and then No. 1, the latter starting his back nine when he drove into a bunker and had a par putt lip out of the cup, Bradley was at 3 under.
Slowly putt-putting out of the harbour in a brightly painted blue-and-orange ramshackle boat, the fisherman will likely take you towards the bays and reefs of the tiny outer islands.
"I should have knocked that putt in 99 times out of 100, " said Furyk, also beaten in a play-off in this event, who has now finished second three times on the tour this season.
Angela Stanford also had a share of third until the final hole, when she lipped out a short par putt for her first bogey in a closing 69.
He used all those attributes to top the leaderboard with Cheetham at the Gary Player-designed course before winning the shoot-out with a chip-and-putt on the 18th for a birdie four.
His first putt rolled up to within two feet and Casey holed out for victory.
South Korea's Jin Jeong finished as the leading amateur on four-under-par, closing out his tournament by holing a spectacular eagle putt on the 18th.
Woods hit a fairway metal off the pine needles and into a bunker, blasted out to 10 feet and rolled in the birdie putt to briefly take the lead.
He somehow dug it out about eight feet short and holed the clutch putt for a par, while Na saw his mid-range effort for a four at the last finish agonisingly on the edge of the cup.
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"I was just kind of plugging along out there and then all of a sudden, made a nice putt at 9, chip-in at 10, good up-and-down at 11, " he said.
Nicole Perrot of Chile led by two shots after two rounds but she missed a short bogey putt at the opening hole, and dropped four more shots on the way out to turn in 41, before finishing with a 78 to drop to five over.
Even Montgomerie accepts that his own success last time out came down to the finest of margins: a 25-foot putt by McDowell to win the cup on the final day.
The world's No. 2 player closed out his week at the Houston Open by making a 25-foot birdie putt for a 70 and a tie for 45th.
He ran off three bold birdies down the stretch getting up-and-down from the back bunker on the 13th, a 10-foot putt on the 14th, and capitalizing on a break at No. 15 when his drive ricocheted out of the trees into the fairways, allowing him to reach the green in two.
The heckling of Montgomerie became so bad that his father retreated to the clubhouse while his singles opponent Payne Stewart, disgusted by the behaviour of some spectators, pointed out the more vociferous troublemakers to have them ejected - and then graciously conceded a long putt to hand the Scot victory on the final green.
All three players then parred the 18th, the opening play-off hole, before Campbell bowed out at the 17th where McNeill had a chance of victory, only to miss a birdie putt from 20-feet.
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