Watney made two key putts for a couple along the back nine of the Blue Monster on Sunday, then press two shot without fear on 18 and ended with a birdie for a 5-under 67 to win the Championship WGC-Cadillac by two shots over Dustin Johnson.
It was the third career victory Watney, by far the largest.
29 year old American at the World Golf Championship, and earned a measure of redemption Blue Monster. It 'been two years ago, when I fought Watney Phil Mickelson fired a shot over the weekend, only his 30-foot birdie putt on the last hole to stop a quick round of the possibility of a playoff.
This time, Watney left nothing to chance.
With a one-shot lead playing the 18th - where he put his tee shot into the water Saturday for a double bogey - Watney drilled his drive over 300 yards in the middle of the fairway and hit his approach to 12 feet above the hole. He pumped his fist when it dropped for birdie, knowing that Johnson had to finish the hole of the link.
Johnson solved shot 8 feet, and typical of his finals, he missed the putt.
"I'm not sure that he owed me one," Watney said at the trophy presentation. "I think I solved the score. If you continue to work hard, you come back in this situation. And fortunately today I was able to do a little better."
Francesco Molinari, who won the recent World Golf Championship stroke play in Shanghai in November last year, closed with a 69 and tied for third, Anders Hansen (67), which alter the top 50, and it is there for the next two weeks to reach the Masters.
Tiger Woods matched his best result this year with a 6 under 66, and when Rory McIlroy soaked his tee shot into the water on the 18th hole and made bogey, Woods allowed tied at 10.
It was his first top 10 in an official event on the PGA Tour for nine months, dating back to the U.S. Open.
"I want to win golf tournaments ... and I did this week," Woods said. "But I showed some positive signs for the next time I play, it's a good thing."
Watney finished in less than 16 to 272 and won $ 1.4 million, approaching to crack the top 10 world ranking.
Johnson opened a birdie on 12 and went straight pars before his next fairway bunker shot that hit the flag and settled two feet away from the 14th day. But he came to do is 16, goes to the bunker to bunker bogey at worst.
"Nothing goes in the hole all day," he said. "The hole 18 of the abstract type."
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