MAMARONECK, N.Y. — For one stunning hole, Phil Mickelson went back in time, letting go of all the self restraint and discipline that transformed him into a major tournament champion and silenced all his critics.

It cost him the U.S. Open.

Next, the world waits to see which Phil shows up in a month in England.

"This one is going to take a little while to get over," Mickelson said Sunday after collapsing on the 72nd hole at Winged Foot. "This one is pretty disappointing."

Mickelson's transgressions made a winner of Geoff Ogilvy and brought back memories of the Lefty of old, the happy-go-lucky guy who took too many chances and made too many mistakes.

Those were the days before Mickelson won his three majors, before he acknowledged that you can't simply grip it and rip it, no matter how much fun that may be and how much the fans might love it.

He lost this one by hitting driver on No. 18, when he desperately needed to keep the ball straight. Then, after that shot went far to the left, he went for the green, hoping to save par, instead of taking a safer route that might have resulted in a bogey and a playoff.

From ahead by one on the 18th tee to losing by one in the clubhouse, tied for second with Colin Montgomerie and Jim Furyk.

From a chance for a third straight major to a spot next to Jean Van de Velde in the pantheon of major meltdowns.

Mickelson said he would go home and rest for a while; majors have always taken a lot out of him. He conceded it will take a lot of healing to be ready for the British Open at Royal Liverpool a month from now.

"The biggest reason it's disappointing is that this is the tournament I dreamed of winning as a kid, that I spent countless hours practicing, came out weeks and weeks and months early to get ready and had it right there in my hands," Mickelson said.

Ogilvy, meanwhile, got his first major championship not only thanks to Mickelson's mistake, but to his own solid play through four days on a brutal Winged Foot course that yielded only 12 sub-par rounds all week.

The 29-year-old Aussie shot 2-over 72 to finish at 5-over 275. He became the first U.S. Open winner not to break par since Andy North in 1978 at Cherry Hills.

"I think I was the beneficiary of a little bit of charity," Ogilvy said.

But make no mistake. Ogilvy did plenty of solid work to get in position to have this handed to him.

On the 17th hole, he chipped in from the gnarled greenside rough to save par and stay at 5 over. On 18, he hit a perfect drive up the fairway, only to see it come to rest in a divot — the ultimate bad break on a course that was already tough enough. His approach lost power as it reached the green, tumbled down the hill, but he made a great up-and-down.

Then, from the clubhouse, Ogilvy saw Mickelson make the kind of mistakes most people thought were behind him.

He chose driver over his 4-wood on the tee, feeling that a driver that would curve a little to the left had been his "bread-and-butter shot" over the last 2Z\x years, during which he has morphed from the 0-for-42-in-the-majors guy to the primary threat to Tiger Woods.

That shot sliced so far left, it landed near the hospitality tents called The Champion's Pavilion, into the matted rough. Instead of hitting a safe shot and trying to guarantee at least a bogey and a playoff with Ogilvy, he went for the green and hit a tree. A branch knocked down his ball and it advanced only 25 yards.

From there, desperation set in.

holes to play, but the stubborn side of him continued to hit driver, and his miscues finally caught up with him. Mickelson hit only two fairways in the final round, none on the back nine.

And while he found a way to escape most times, Winged Foot got its vengeance at the end.

His tee shot on the 18th went so far left that it clattered through the trees by a corporate hospitality tent, into the trampled rough. Instead of playing out to the fairway and trying to get par — just as Payne Stewart and David Toms had done in beating Mickelson in majors — he went after the green and hit a tree, the ball advancing only 25 yards.

The third shot sailed left of the green and buried in the bunker, plugged so badly that Mickelson had no chance to get close to the flag because the green ran away from him. He blasted out and through the green, into more rough.