Winner: Zach Johnson
Around the wider world of golf: Chella Choi finally got her first win (Dad can finally retire from the caddie biz!) at the Marathon Classic on the LPGA; Annie Park won the Toyota Danielle Downey Classic on the Symetra Tour; Si Woo Kim won the Stonebrae Classic on the Web.com Tour; J.J. Spaun won the Staal Foundation Open on the Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada; Scott Piercy won the Barbasol Championship, the PGA Tour alternate event; and Yoko Maeda won the Samantha Thavasa Girls Collection Ladies on the JLPGA (bangkokbobby has details).
We did not get the 0.33 leg of the single season Grand Slam. Jordan Spieth's magic in the end ran out and he came up a single shot short.
We failed to get the first amateur winner at a major in 85 years. Dunne stumbled early on and Niebrugge could handiest get to -11, which changed into enough to get the Silver Medal however now not the Silver Jug.
We did not even get one of the favorites as a winner. The scoring turned into unbelievable, given the wind, rain and cold, and unless you could preserve pace you purchased left in the dust.
What we DID get was the longest Open Championship in records -- five days and four greater holes -- and we were given a demonstrated important winner who shot the high-quality very last spherical any winner ever shot in an Open at St. Andrews. And he did it with simple guts and tenacity.
Zach Johnson came out early and dropped the hammer on the Open subject. Blistering wedge paintings lit up the path as he went approximately his enterprise in the nasty climate. His 5-under 31 at the the front 9 shot him to the pinnacle of the leaderboard, and his dramatic birdie on 18 landed him a niche in a 3-way playoff with Louis Oosthuizen and Mark Leishman. Leishman stumbled early as Zach birdied the first two playoff holes to take a single shot lead over Oosthuizen. A couple of misinterpret putts averted Louis from making up the ground after Zach bogeyed the Road Hole...
And the rest is history.
Zach Johnson becomes the first guy ever to get his first two majors at Augusta National and St. Andrews, and it won't marvel everybody if he locked up a place in the World Golf Hall of Fame along with his overall performance. It seems appropriate that the Home of Golf must select one of these gritty unpretentious competitor as its Champion Golfer of 2015.
As Brandel Chamblee stated, we found out that the John Deere Classic is indeed the best way to prepare for an Open Championship. And, if I might be so formidable, it additionally seems to be a great way to grab a sparkly new Limerick Summary to hold that shiny Claret Jug enterprise:
The wind and the rain gave the edge
To Zach and his friend, the wedge.
With birdies galore
He quickly charged to the fore
And the hammer he dropped was a sledge! The photo came from the Open page at the ET site.
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