Golf:American Charley Hoffman, ranked only 132nd in the world, produced the performance of his life to win the second of the FedEx Cup play-off events in Boston.
England's Luke Donald will look back at what might have been after leading by two seven holes into his final round in the Deutsche Bank Championship, but Hoffman was in a league of his own.
The 33-year-old with only one win in his previous 297 US Tour events had an incredible 11 birdies for a closing 62, his career low score, and five-shot victory.
Nobody else on the day scored better than 65.
Donald, one of Colin Montgomerie's three wild card picks for the Ryder Cup, went to the turn in 33, but had a hat-trick of bogeys from the 14th and fell back to joint second with Australians Jason Day and Geoff Ogilvy.
As for Ireland's Pádraig Harrington, his missed cut on Saturday did end his interest in the play-offs as feared. Only the top 70 on the points table qualify for this week's event in Chicago and Harrington, another of Montgomerie's selections, dropped from 57th to 73rd.
Rory McIlroy finished on four-under-par after a 71.
Hoffman was four behind Day at the start of the day, but started to make his presence felt with four successive birdies from the second.
He also turned in 33, but after another birdie at the 10th he hit the flagstick on the par three next and then sank a bunker shot at the 13th.
That took him one in front and, far from buckling under the pressure, he picked up more shots at the 15th and 16th and put the icing on the cake with a two-putt four on the 528-yard 18th.
He moves into second spot on the play-off standings behind compatriot Matt Kuchar, winner of last week's Barclays event in New Jersey.
"I actually didn't know how many birdies I had," he said. "The ball just kept going in the hole, It was a really fun day.
"I was just trying to keep the pedal down. I didn't have a clue.
Donald, who has now had 27 top 10 finishes since his last win in America four-and-a-half years ago, lost his normal accuracy on the back nine.
He three-putted the 14th and 16th and in between could not recover from driving into sand.
The world number 11 did at least come back with birdies on the final two holes for 69, though, and got an unexpected second when Day closed with a bogey six.
Tiger Woods, meanwhile, remains world number one after finishing with three birdies for a 68 and 10-under total of 274 to move up into a tie for 11th.
That was a massive 12 strokes adrift of Hoffman, but once again Phil Mickelson and Steve Stricker missed the chance to take over at the top.
Stricker had to win, and from fourth after 54 holes he shot 71 to slip to ninth, while Mickelson, for whom a top-three finish would have done it, crashed from sixth to 25th with a scrappy 76 that included two penalty drops en route to a triple bogey seven on the 10th.
American Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin names his four wild cards on Tuesday and when asked if he was expecting a call Woods, needing a pick for the first time, said: "We will see - hopefully he has my number!"
Collated final-round scores (USA unless stated, Irish in bold. Par 71):
262Charley Hoffman 64 67 69 62
267Luke Donald (Eng) 65 67 66 69, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 64 72 65 66, Jason Day (Aus) 63 67 66 71
268Adam Scott (Aus) 67 69 65 67, Tom Gillis 67 71 65 65, Brandt Snedeker 66 64 67 71
270John Senden (Aus) 66 68 69 67
271Steve Stricker 65 68 67 71
272D.J. Trahan 64 69 69 70
274Vijay Singh (Fij) 66 68 69 71, J.B. Holmes 66 71 69 68, Tiger Woods 72 65 69 68, Michael Sim (Aus) 68 66 72 68, Andres Romero (Arg) 68 66 68 72, Ryan Palmer 64 72 69 69, Matt Kuchar 66 65 72 71
275Charlie Wi (Kor) 68 66 67 74, Jason Dufner 66 73 68 68, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 69 68 69 69, Stewart Cink 68 66 72 69
276Brian Davis (Eng) 64 73 69 70, Kris Blanks 66 68 72 70, Bill Haas 66 73 69 68
277Phil Mickelson 69 65 67 76, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 67 69 71 70, Bo Van Pelt 70 70 68 69, Martin Laird (Sco) 66 69 74 68, Paul Casey (Eng) 66 72 71 68
278Justin Leonard 69 66 67 76, Zach Johnson 63 71 71 73, Ernie Els (Rsa) 70 67 70 71
279Hunter Mahan 64 70 71 74, Kevin Na 69 67 70 73, Nick Watney 69 72 70 68, Matthew Jones (Aus) 65 70 73 71
280 Rory McIlroy (NIrl) 64 76 69 71,Fredrik Jacobson (Swe) 65 76 69 70, Jim Furyk 66 73 71 70, Bubba Watson 67 71 73 69
281Steve Marino 65 69 71 76, Greg Chalmers (Aus) 68 72 72 69, Rickie Fowler 67 70 74 70, Jason Bohn 67 74 72 68
282Brendon De Jonge 67 72 73 70, David Toms 67 71 75 69, Kevin Streelman 69 70 73 70, John Rollins 66 70 67 79, Robert Allenby (Aus) 69 70 75 68, Tim Petrovic 68 71 71 72, K J Choi (Kor) 69 71 72 70, Ian Poulter (Eng) 67 73 73 69, Tim Clark (Rsa) 69 72 71 70, Y.E. Yang (Kor) 67 70 68 77, Josh Teater 68 70 75 69, Stephen Ames (Can) 67 68 75 72
283Dustin Johnson 73 68 69 73, Ricky Barnes 68 71 74 70, Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 67 71 73 72, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 70 71 72 70
284Davis Love III 71 69 71 73, Marc Leishman (Aus) 71 68 77 68, Camilo Villegas (Col) 67 72 71 74, Blake Adams 70 68 70 76
285Lucas Glover 70 68 72 75, Heath Slocum 68 72 74 71
286Ryan Moore 64 76 70 76, Charles Howell III 68 70 77 71
287Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 71 70 75 71
290Paul Goydos 68 73 75 74
291Shaun Micheel 68 71 75 77
WD: 219Garrett Willis 70 71 78