POTTER

He never flinched. The key moment came behind the green on the par-3 seventh, the most picturesque at Pebble Beach. He and Johnson were side-byside in light rough to a firm green that ran away from them. Johnson

chipped nicely to 4 feet. Potter put a little more loft on his shot and holed it for a birdie and a two-shot lead.

No one got closer the rest of the way.

He wound up winning by three shots over Johnson (72), Mickelson (67), Day (70) and Chez Reavie (68).

Potter stepped awkwardly off a curb at the Canadian Open in 2014

and broke his ankle so badly that he didn’t play another tournament until Canada two years later. He wound up having to work his way back to the PGA Tour through the developmental tour last year.

The 18th hole gave him plenty of time to consider how far he had come.

Day, trying to make eagle for his only chance

at winning, hooked a driver off the deck over the sea wall. He found the ball on a mixture of sand and pebbles and played it off the beach , over the sea wall, over the green and into a bunker. Troy Merritt hit his shot into a cypress tree in front of the 18th green and it stayed up there, meaning he had to go back and play another shot.