By the twelfth hole, Stenson was one over for the day, six under overall, and tied in second with Justin Rose, five under for the day.
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Jordan Spieth won the tournament to claimed the FedEx championship title. With his $1.4 million winning share, Spieth set a record from Tour earnings in a year with $12,030,465, a figure that doesn’t include his $10 million bonus for winning the FedEx Cup.
His $10 million Playoff prize ensures that he is the first golf player to ever collect $22 million in a single season.
With an 8-foot par putt “that was right in the heart for a 1-under 69″, Spieth never gave a chance to anyone else and kept pouring putt from all over East Lake.
Spieth entered the week No. 2 in the FedEx Cup standings and becomes the youngest victor of the FedEx Cup and of the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola at the age of 22 years, 2 months.
The 2015 PGA Tour season served as a coming out party for Jordan Spieth – and now, the electric young Texan has capped off his brilliant season by adding “FedExCup Champion” to his resume. But despite a disappointing finish at East Lake Golf Club, Day is still positive about all his achievements this season, making him “more hungry” to reclaim the top of the world golf rankings.
“I got frustrated”, Spieth said.
Jordan Spieth ended the season in championship form.
“I know that we can play at this level, even when we don’t have our best stuff and it gives me a lot of confidence going forward for the next 20 years”. “I watched it firsthand at the first two rounds at Augusta, and he played phenomenal and putted phenomenal”.
It was clear – by his many missed fairways Sunday – that Spieth didn’t have his “A” game from a ball-striking standpoint, but he was able to overcome that with some truly spectacular putting.
Five strokes off the lead in a tie for fifth was two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson, Dustin Johnson and Paul Casey. He made an 18-foot birdie on the par-5 ninth with Stenson already at tap-in range for birdie.
However, the ultra-competitive Spieth geared up for a run at the Tour Championship/FedExCup double and hit his target. A 57-foot birdie putt at the last got him into the clubhouse in a final-round 72 and pulled him back into second place for both the tournament and the FedEx Cup.
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Jordan Spieth stayed on course for a $10-million payday at the Tour Championships here on Saturday, firing a two-under-par 68 to snatch a one-shot lead as Sweden’s Henrik Stenson faltered.
