Phil Mickelson's final-hole par save at Quail Hollow is as good as it gets

We all know that Phil Mickelson is a short-game magician.

 

On the final hole of the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow on Sunday, Lefty pulled out all the tricks.

 

After a not so great second shot on the difficult par 4, Mickelson found himself having to practically straddle the creek in order to play his third shot.

 

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He played the shot well enough to get on the green -- a great shot considering the situation. And you've got to hear him describe it.

 

"It was leaning against a rock," Mickelson told the media. "It was touching a rock, but somehow I was able to get way underneath the ball. It was kind of on such a severe lie, I was able to hit it vertically. So I hit it off the toe and the toe of my wedge is all banged up. Not the sole, but the far end of the toe. I semi played it into the rock to kick it to the right over the pin. So I went up vertically ad used the side of the rock to kind of get it to go to the right."

 

And how does one hit a shot vertically?

 

"I don't know, but I've done it," he said. "Whether it's in play or practice or whatever, I mean, I've done it growing up as a kid. I don't know, I've just done it a bunch."

 

But what good is a great shot from a hazard if you don't hole the par putt?

 

Evidently, that's what Mickelson was thinking too. He buried the putt for par, a final-round 2-under 69 and a top-10 finish.