Spieth made a career-high and field-best six putts longer than 20 feet.
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“This is incredible.This year is unreal”.
Spieth loses in a sudden-death play-off at the Shell Houston Open, having held the 54-hole lead. “Just get to the green”, he moaned, and when he got there it wasn’t hard to size up the score. Stenson was looking at just over a 3-footer.
Spieth started the day with a one-stroke lead over Stenson, and the Swede – who could also have seized the playoff bonus with a victory – tried to keep the pressure on.
“You can’t expect him to make it”, Stenson said after a 72.
“This is an event where we approach it like a major championship because we know this is possible at the end of it”, he said.
“I think overall it was a solid week, but it was just an OK week for me”.
What it means: This is Spieth’s sixth PGA Tour victory and fifth this year, tying him with Jason Day for the most in 2014-15. He surpassed Vijay Singh’s $10.9 million in 2004.
Stenson is No. 4 in the FedEx Cup and has been a big topic of conversation this week.
Spieth seized control with an 18-foot birdie putt on No. 8, a two-shot swing when Stenson took bogey from the trees and the bunker.
In 1984, the value of all of the purse combined on the PGA Tour was $21.3 million. He had five wins, tied with Jason Day. Spieth’s wins at the Valspar Championship, Masters, US Open, John Deere Classic and Tour Championship say it all. It’s his fourth runner-up finish of the season.
Jordan Spieth capped off his historic PGA Tour season with an $11.485 million victory on Sunday. He was the first to show up at East Lake last Monday to start grinding on his game. He brought his coach, Cameron McCormick, in from Dallas.
“Early grind”, caddie Michael Greller said.
Spieth being presented with the Green Jacket.
Spieth wins the Valspar Championship at the third extra hole of a three-way play-off.
Quite remarkably, Spieth’s on-course winnings for 2015 broke through the $22 million mark: $12m in regular winnings, and $10m for the playoff bonus. It nearly all fell apart on 17, when he shanked his shot over the gallery and into the muddy rough.
McIlroy suffered from awkward stances above greenside bunkers for a bogey at No. 16 and a double-bogey at the 18th that dropped him back from five-under. The next place pays $2 million.
His lengthy birdie on the final hole of the Tour Championship was not what he envisioned when he came to East Lake Golf Club this week.
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That putt was effectively worth £650,000 to Stenson as it edged him ahead of Day in the final FedEx Cup standings.
