updated 2:03 p.m. ET June 19, 2006

MAMARONECK, N.Y. - The new Phil Mickelson won two green jackets with spectacular birdies or steady pars, whatever he needed. The new Phil won the PGA Championship by keeping his tee shots in the short grass and working magic with his wedge.

Sunday in the U.S. Open, the old Phil showed up in a New York minute.

After yet another tee shot clattered through the trees, he went for a par on the 18th hole that would have won at Winged Foot. With a reckless attempt to get out of trouble, he wound up with a double bogey that gave Geoff Ogilvy the trophy and put Mickelson in the wrong kind of company.

He was poised to join Tiger Woods by winning his third straight major but ended up more like Jean Van de Velde, making a series of miscues that converged into a spectacular crash on the 72nd hole.

“I still am in shock that I did that. I just can’t believe that I did that,” Mickelson said. “I am such an idiot.”

Of the half-dozen players who came to the 18th hole at Winged Foot believing they still had a chance to win, Ogilvy was the only one who made par. And even the 29-year-old Aussie thought his 6-foot putt was only going to be good enough for second place.

“I thought, ’Make this and come in second in the Open on your own,”’ Ogilvy said. “I never thought Phil would make bogey at the last. He ended up making double, and it’s got to be a hard one to swallow for Phil, because he’s obviously been the outstanding player at majors in the last eight or nine months.

“He’s obviously worked out the major formula — he’ll hit it on the green, make a par, make New York happy,” he remembered thinking. “But it worked out in my favor.”

Ogilvy wasn’t without credit for his first major championship.

He chipped in from mangled rough on the 17th hole to save par, then overcame a miserable break on the 18th when his tee shot came to rest in a divot. The approach lost power as it reached the green, tumbling down the false front, and he did well to pitch up the hill to about 6 feet behind the cup.

He made the putt, unlike Colin Montgomerie and Jim Furyk before him.

“It’s pretty hard to believe,” Ogilvy said, a comment that went a long way at this U.S. Open. “Obviously, you dream about winning a major championship. To have it actually happen, once it sinks in, it’s pretty special.”

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Even so, this was Mickelson’s major to win, and the first one he threw away.

“This one is going to take a while to get over,” Mickelson said. “This one is pretty disappointing.”

At least Van de Velde got a second chance in a playoff in the ’99 British Open at Carnoustie after he made triple bogey on the last hole. Mickelson could only cup his hands over his cap and acknowledge a New York crowd that he disappointed again.

And he had only himself to blame.

He had a two-shot lead with four holes to play, but he continued to miss fairways, 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.

Mickelson’s tee shot on the 18th went so far left that it clattered through the trees by a 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.

Brian Snyder / Reuters Geoff Ogilvy is the first Australian to win a major title since Steve Elkington in 1995.

“If I would make par, I’d win the tournament,” Mickelson said. “I just thought, ’I can slice this.’ I thought I’d just put the 3-iron on the green — or if not on it, around it — and get up and down.”

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, then chipped back 8 feet past the hole before making the last putt to close with double bogey.

Lost in the Mickelson collapse was what proved to be the most demanding U.S. Open in more than 25 years.

Ogilvy closed with a 72 and finished at 5-over 285, the first time a U.S. Open champion finished over par since Andy North at Cherry Hills in 1978. And it was the highest score by a winner since Hale Irwin was 7 over at Winged Foot in the ’74 U.S. Open. There were only 12 rounds under par all week, and Ogilvy joined Irwin in another footnote: Neither broke par in any of the four rounds.

Irwin didn’t get this kind of help, however.

“I had it right there in my hands, and I let it go,” Mickelson said. “I just can’t believe I did that.”

Mickelson wasn’t the only guy to blow it on the 18th.

Montgomerie had his best chance in 11 years to win that elusive major. He holed a 75-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole for a share of the lead and was in the middle of the 18th fairway, 172 yards from the hole, in prime position to do no worse than a playoff. But he missed well to the right, down a steep slope into rough that covered the cuffs of his pants.

The best he could do was chip some 40 feet by the pin. Then he did the worst thing he could do, running his par putt 10 feet by and missing the next one for a double bogey and a 71.

“I look forward to coming back next year and try another U.S. Open disaster,” Montgomerie said.

Furyk also will have a restless night.

One of five players tied for the lead on a steamy afternoon, he was 5 over and in the bunker on the 18th when he played a splendid shot to about 5 feet below the hole. He backed off twice, and the par putt caught the right edge of the cup, giving him a 70, one shot out of a playoff.

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