PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – When Jim Furyk sits on the plane for the short hop down to Los Angeles, he’ll have a lot of thinking to do about what needs to happen for him to win a golf tournament.

By any measure, Furyk didn’t get it done on Sunday at Pebble Beach. He finished tied for seventh – six shots behind Brandt Snedeker after a final-round 74 that was the seventh-worst score of the day and tied for the highest among the top 56 finishers.

What has to perplex Furyk is that, by his own admission, he generally hit the ball better in Sunday’s final round than he did in Saturday’s third round, when he shot a 9-under 63 that propelled him into a one-shot lead over Snedeker.

“I really kind of kept my nose down and really tried to focus on getting my game back in shape, and more than anything just get the ball in the hole,” Furyk said of his attitude. “I hit the ball really well for (the) first 11 holes; I hit two bad shots and was 3-over par. The fact is I just didn’t score and get the ball in the hole.”

Since the third round of the 2012 Transitions Championship, Furyk has led or had a share of the 54-hole lead nine times, including after Saturday’s third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, but has failed to get the job done.

“It was frustrating six or seven tournaments ago,” Furyk said of the streak. “It’s always frustrating. It’s just a really weird week. I show up after three and a half months off, I don’t expect to go out there. My mind was about as open as it’s ever been. I had a bad practice week last week. I really was just trying to get my feet under me and get grounded and see where it took me. All of a sudden I get on a roll on Thursday and get on a roll yesterday and I wasn’t shocked, but I was surprised.”

Furyk never felt nervous on Sunday. Instead, he was unusually comfortable, and said he was as calm on the first tee as he has been in a long time.

Yet, it didn’t work. Now, the 44-year-old can only look and see what could have been for the past three years.

Furyk leaves Pebble Beach disappointed, partially because he didn’t get the job done and partially because he played so poorly on another Sunday when he had a chance to win.

“I was more in shock that I was in that position because I played a lot better than that,” Furyk said of being 3-over par through 11 holes after hitting it was well as he could over the first five holes. “It is what it is. It’s a Catch 22.”

On the bright side, Furyk leaves Pebble Beach playing better than he could have imagined after a layoff of more than three months.

Next up for Furyk is the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club, just outside of Los Angeles.

“My game is a lot closer than what I thought coming out, to be honest with you,” Furyk said. “I need to really take a look at this round and kind of what happened and where it went wrong. It happens kind of quick on you, even though it’s a 12‑hour round.”