If Phil Mickelson slips up at Torrey Pines today and finishes worse than 2nd, Paul Casey will move into the number 5 spot in the world rankings, which would read Westwood, Kaymer, Woods, McDowell and Casey.
He hasn't won in 20 months, remember he was up to #3 in the world before he tore a muscle in his rib cage back in 2009, and he came down the 18th tied with Peter Hanson at -20, but Hanson made a mess of it, finally missing a 10 footer for par, leaving Casey the winner when he holed his 6 foot putt for par.
"It feels fantastic - the most important thing to me is winning and that was huge.
"The goal is obviously the Majors, but how are you going to win Major Championships if you can't win regular events
I'm watching the tape delayed version now on Golf Channel and it is obvious the wind has started to blow making this course much more difficult and Renton Laidlaw is saying that there have been some 23 lead changes today alone.
Earlier in the week I wrote about the players torching this Colin Montgomerie course and today before the wind got up there were course record rounds of 63 from Dane Søren Kjeldsen and England's Richard Finch.
1 CASEY, Paul -20 18 -4 67 67 66 68 268
T2 JIMÉNEZ, Miguel Angel -19 18 -5 68 65 69 67 269
T2 HANSON, Peter -19 18 -3 66 67 67 69 269
4 GALLACHER, Stephen -18 18 -5 70 64 69 67 270
5 KARLSSON, Robert -17 18 -6 69 67 69 66 271
T6 NOH, Seung-yul -16 18 -7 69 68 70 65 272
T6 EDFORS, Johan -16 18 -3 64 71 68 69 272
T8 QUIROS, Alvaro -14 18 -5 67 69 71 67 274
T8 RAMSAY, Richie -14 18 -5 72 68 67 67 274
T8 MOLINARI, Edoardo -14 18 -2 68 65 71 70 274
T8 NOREN, Alexander -14 18 -2 67 70 67 70 274
T8 CLARKE, Darren -14 18 +1 69 65 67 73 274
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