” I don’t like Whistling Straits”.
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Meanwhile, Jordan Spieth’s bid for an unprecedented golfing Grand Slam ended in agonising fashion.
“I have more experience in this position”, Spieth said. “I’m sure there’s only been a few”. Palmer, Nicklaus and Woods never again won the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year.
The next major will be the PGA Championship, which will take place at Whistling Straits Golf Course in Kohler, Wisconsin.
Johnson, the 2007 Masters Tournament champion, sank a 30-foot birdie putt at the 72nd hole to finish regulation at 15-under par and then waited to see if he could be topped.
Having broken through for his first two majors, Spieth has an advantage he did not have when the season began. He doesn’t hit it a mile, but when he finds his rhythm he has enough game to get it around and, like Spieth, he is lethal with the putter. “It’s hard to do that every single time”.
Oosthuizen, the victor at St Andrews in 2010, saved par superbly at the 17th before coolly holing a four-foot birdie putt on the 18th. Norman makes a meal of the final two holes to give the American the Jug.
Leishman is 30 feet from the hole and three-putts for bogey.
Jason Day is tied for the lead after 54 holes of a major.
Something he also tends to do is pay respect to the game and its fans.
Marc Leishman finds himself out in front, one shot ahead of Zach Johnson and Louis Oosthuizen.
University of Alabama student Dunne, 22, is the first amateur since Bobby Jones to lead the Open after 54 holes, the American going on to lift the Claret Jug at St Andrews in 1927.
But he missed an 8-foot putt for par at No. 17, then failed to make a birdie at the 18th hole. But I’m grateful and humbled.
“It takes me back to when I turned professional”, he said.
She was so ill three months ago with myopathy, a disease where the muscles cease to function, that he feared he might lose her and thoughts of quitting golf went through his mind. Truthfully, he could be hitting here. “He’s a phenomenal talent and, I’m telling you right now, he’s a better person than he is a golfer”. “You could even go back further than that when I was playing as a youngster”. Masters and U.S. Open champion Jordan Spieth narrowly missed a chance to join the playoff, quashing dreams of a Grand Slam in 2015.
“I mean I played for four days the best four days of ball striking I’ve ever had consecutively”.
Noting the win had not “set in yet”, Johnson said in the interview he felt good and about it and was “patient” on the Old Course at the Home of Golf. Six of them are major champions.
“Walking off the ninth green was as frustrated as I’ve been in a tournament other than off 14 on Friday morning”, he explained. It was one that someone else won.
Spieth will take that attitude to Whistling Straits, the third straight links-style course among the year’s majors. “It doesn’t matter the historical element of it. To be that close on our biggest stage, how many chances do you get?”
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No sense thinking too much about what might have happened.
