Go ahead, take a look at this video before we begin (Editor's note: the shot comes at the 0:35 second mark). It only seems fair since you'll most likely need a minute or two to pick your jaw up off the floor after watching Corey Pavin hit one of the most incredible recovery shots you're ever going to see.

Playing in the Champions Tour's Allianz Championship last weekend, Pavin found himself in a precarious spot on the 14th hole during Sunday's final round, after his approach shot went over the green and came to rest against a tree root next to the cart path.

It was an impossible shot. Not only did Pavin have to hit the ball cleanly and completely miss the root, but he had to accomplish the shot left-handed (he was unable to take a right-handed stance). You read that right: Left-freakin-handed.

Corey Pavin's ball against the root. / PGA Tour

I know Pavin is one of the best short game players in the history of the game, but even this shot seemed a little on the crazy side. But Pavin hit it anyway, catching the ball perfectly with an 8-iron, while missing the root in the process, and knocking the shot to within five feet of the hole.

Pavin not only went on to make par the hole and capture his first Champions Tour title in a playoff. Not a bad day's work for the short game magician.

After his round, Pavin called it a "once-in-a-lifetime shot" and probably the best up-and-down of his career. That's an understatement. It wasn't just the best of his career, it probably ranks right up there with some of the best, and most clutch, recovery shots in the history of the game.

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Sizing up the TV coverage from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am ... and away we go.

It was billed at the "penultimate pairing," a Tiger and Phil showdown for the ages that was supposed to draw viewers to their couches on Sunday afternoon, as two of the greatest golfers on the planet went head-to-head in the second-to-last group on one of the most picturesque backdrops in golf.

Honestly, I don't think a TV writer could have scripted a better final round story. It was beyond perfect, and CBS capitalized on the moment by posting its highest rated Pebble Beach finish in 15 years.

That was the good news for CBS. The not so good news was the network once again failed to produce during a key moment in the tournament on Sunday afternoon. Blame it on the the suits and antiquated rules, but there was once again a 30-plus minute window during the final round when the tournament wasn't on television.

We've talked about this issue in the past, but CBS's decision to run college basketball coverage right up to the start of the golf tournament is a problem that needs to be rectified -- especially when you have a marquee pairing on the course.

Following the Golf Channel's early round coverage from Pebble, the network went back to the studio at 2:30 p.m. ET before CBS came on the air at 3:00 p.m. The only problem was CBS never goes live with golf coverage on time.

In years past, there have been one or two college basketball games that ended on time. And like clockwork, Sunday afternoon's Michigan-Illinois game went over its allotted time slot. There were still two minutes left in the contest when 3:00 p.m. rolled around, which meant viewers were stuck wondering what the heck was going on for almost 50 minutes.

Phil Mickelson / Getty ImagesLet's be honest, we're all incredibly busy. Nobody has time to sit down and watch four rounds of golf each week -- unless, of course, you watch TV for a living, and if that's the case, please email us your number. So in an effort to condense the tournament coverage for you into a few quick hits, here are five things we learned from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Phil Mickelson is back ... for at least one week — It's hard to get a read on Lefty these days. One moment he's missing half of his fairways and can't make a putt to save his life, and the next he's bringing the course to its knees with some of the best golf we've seen from him since last year's Shell Houston Open. It appears Mickelson is back on the golf radar, but given his propensity for up and down play,  you have to wonder if this was just one good round of golf or the beginning of a special year. For now, we're inclined to stick with the latter (because that final round performance really was that good).

It's all mental for Tiger Woods — Say what you want about the swing and balky putter being the chief causes of Tiger Woods' Sunday collapse at Pebble Beach, but after watching him fail to convert in three of the last four events, you have think the mental game is playing a part. Woods looked flawless from tee-to-green for three days, and when he suddenly found himself in contention again, his game fell apart. The same thing happened in Abu Dhabi, and at the Australian Open, which leads you to believe there's something going on upstairs. With his swing all but back, the final step is building up the confidence level. Most thought that happened when he won at the Chevron, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Slow play continues at the Pro-Am — Tournament officials have to do something about the slow play at Pebble Beach Pro-Am. If you want to know why the big names continue to bypass an event on one of the top courses in the world, just look at the pace of play this week. Groups were taking upwards of six hours to complete their rounds, which is absurd. I understand the importance of bringing the celebrities and some of the tour's big-money sponsors out to Pebble for the week, but the tournament is losing out on some high-profile names by continuing to play the event with a full field. After years of watching Pebble slowly turn into a middle-tier event, it's time tournament officials got serious about the pace of play and did something about it.

Sure, there were plenty of fine shots all weekend long at both the AT&T National Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Allianz Championship, but these were the best of the best. Marvel at guys like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson as they perform at levels far beyond those of mortal men. And watch some kid named Tony Romo tear it up as well. Why haven't we heard of him before now in this sport, huh?

By now, you know that Phil Mickelson beat not just Tiger Woods, but the rest of the field, the course at Pebble Beach, and probably a spectator or two en route to dominating at the AT&T National Pro-Am at Pebble Beach. It was a masterful performance, certainly one of Phil's best. Catch the full details of one of the best final rounds of Mickelson's career in the video above. Enjoy, Phanatics.

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The golf world was never supposed to be like this. There were certain things that made sense and that was that. Fred Couples had a smooth swing. Tiger Woods was the champion. Phil Mickelson was the lovable loser we all enjoyed rooting for, even if at times he came through in the clutch.

[Video: Mickelson, Woods and even Tony Romo highlight week's best shots]

But this? This?! No no no. We were told this wasn't going to happen. Phil Mickelson was paired on Sunday with Tiger at Pebble Beach, a place that still has a bruise from the last time Tiger slapped it. No matter what happened since, Pebble was Tiger's to feast on, and Phil was the guy that had won here before but always as the guy he was, nothing more.

Nope. This isn't the script. Phil isn't supposed to be sticking irons to three feet while paired with Tiger. He isn't the guy that makes clutch par putts from darn near Burlingame. And an iron off the 18th tee?! What happened to the man that hit driver off the deck with a chance to win?

Tiger Woods lets go of his club during the final round at Pebble Beach. / Getty ImagesTiger Woods tends to have a pretty good handle on the state of his golf game, but it's safe to say even he didn't see the meltdown coming Sunday at Pebble Beach. Less than 24 hours after Woods holed his final putt on 18 on Saturday to close out a stellar 5-under 67, he showed up for his head-to-head battle with Phil Mickelson with a chance to not only beat one of his biggest adversaries, but also capture his first official tour win in more than two years.

But there was just one problem: Woods forgot to bring his swing to the course. In one of the most shocking rounds we've seen from him since his first-round implosion at the 2011 PGA Championship, Woods completely lost it at Pebble Beach, blowing his tournament hopes to pieces with a final-round performance that will certainly have him wondering where it all went wrong.

How bad was it? Put it this way: Woods' amateur playing partner, Tony Romo, shot a lower final-round score … and he was playing as a scratch golfer. But that wasn't the only black eye for Woods. He didn't just lose the tournament to Mickelson — who was two shots behind Woods when the day started, he finished the final round with a 3-over 75, which was 11 shots worse than Mickelson's 8-under 64.

"I didn't hit it as bad as the score indicated, but I putted awful," Woods said after his round. "I just could not see my lines. I couldn't get comfortable."

As CBS analyst Nick Faldo noted during the closing holes of the tournament, if Mickelson and Woods were going head-to-head in match play, the match would have ended 7 and 5. Simply put, it was a "Mickelson Massacre."

Phil Mickelson tees off as Tiger Woods looks on. / Getty Images

Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, Phil Mickelson does his best work when no one's paying attention.

Coming into Sunday at the AT&T National Pebble Beach Pro-Am, exactly no one outside of Phil's Phanatics was paying attention to Mickelson, despite the fact that he was within sight of 54-hole leader Charlie Wi. No, the story of the evening was Tiger Woods and if he could close out a full-field tournament for the first time in more than two years. (Spoiler: no.) Mickelson, as he's done at so many tournaments, simply lay in the weeds, waiting for his chance, calmly keeping his head as those all around him on the leaderboard were losing theirs.

The result? One of Mickelson's most dominating wins ever, an 8-under bogey-free triumph from start to finish at one of the world's signature golf courses.

"What a round," said Mickelson's wife, Amy, while embracing him as he came off the 18th green. "Are you kidding me?"

As Wi was self-destructing and Woods was failing to capitalize on birdie