FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Lucas Glover steadied his hands for a 3-foot par putt on the 18th hole, an anticlimatic finish to five dreary days at a U.S. Open filled with more delays than drama.The unlikely champion turned to soak up a beautiful sight beneath gathering clouds Monday at Bethpage Black.”I just looked at the scoreboard to make sure this was really happening,” Glover said.Some 24,000 fans, speckled with mud from a long walk soiled, could surely relate.Glover never lost the lead during the final 12 holes, even though the attention was always on someone else. The stage belonged to Phil Mickelson, as it usually does in New York.Mickelson charged into a share of the lead with a startling bid to finally win the Open, his final event before a summer of uncertainty as his wife battles breast cancer. But a fairy-tale finish turned all too familiar, as he missed two par putts on the last four holes to finish second for a record fifth time at the Open.”Certainly I’m disappointed,” Mickelson said. “But now that it’s over, I’ve got more important things going on.Next came David Duval, out of nowhere. Winless in eight years, he ran off three straight birdies on the back nine to tie for the lead as the No. 882 player in the world tried to show why he was No. 1 a decade ago.His hopes ended with a 5-foot par putt on the 17th that spun 180 degrees out of the cup, and his silver medal was no consolation. Glover didn’t have a compelling storyline, just the kind of golf that wins a U.S. Open in any conditions.He made only one birdie in the rain-delayed final round, and it could not have been timed any better. Tied for the lead with three holes to play, he sat on the fairway with 173 yards left to the hole at No. 16.It was a smooth 8-iron, and it landed 6 feet from the cup.”The putt was all you could ever ask for under pressure,” Glover said.His caddie, Don Cooper, helped him with the read and told him, “There’s no way we’re missing this.””It would have went in a thimble,” Cooper said.—-Contact The Daily Reveille sports staff at [email protected]