Carelessness on the closing greens on Saturday cost the Texan, but second place has returned him to the world’s top 15
When Jordan Spieth completed his final round at Royal St George’s and turned to acknowledge the crowd, he kept his head down. Perhaps it was the evening sun cutting over the gallery that caused him to avert his eyes. Or perhaps it was something else. A sense of disappointment, maybe.
The former boy wonder of golf had to watch Collin Morikawa assume that mantle, as the 24-year-old won the Open at the first time of asking. But Spieth, 27, is on the back of one of the biggest comeback seasons in golf, and it was only the consistency of the champion, and – yes – a few glaring errors, that stopped the Texan from winning a fourth major title himself this weekend.
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