Day fires back after ice cream and movie

JORDAN Spieth admitted memories of his Masters meltdown flashed through his mind as he brilliantly avoided a repeat performance to claim one of the most remarkable victories in Open Championship history.

Key fact: Spieth put in a lot of legwork before he found a way to make bogey after taking an unplayable off a sand dune and hitting his third shot from the driving range.

We’re just catching our breath from what was one of the wildest Sunday back nines we’ve ever seen at a major championship, but Jordan Spieth is your 2017 Open Championship victor.

He battled back to post a round of 71 on Thursday, followed by a 68 and 69 on Friday and Saturday respectively to sit tied for 11th at two under, nine back from rival Jordan Spieth, who holds a three-stroke lead going into Sunday’s final round.

“It’s extremely hard to win as we know people like Tom Watson, who is a superstar, Arnold Palmer, a superstar, Trevino, superstar and I don’t use the word superstar very lightly”, Player told Sky Sports News HQ. “I never mentioned it, but all of a sudden it creeps into your head”. “Now when I get on the plane tomorrow night or on Tuesday I’ll have some time to read up a little bit more on the history and that type of stuff”. “It took a bogey to do so”.

Whatever made Jordan Spieth the golfer he is today, and will be for the next generation, we saw it Sunday on the last five holes of the British Open at Royal Birkdale.

Missing from the mix was Rory McIlroy, who looked to be a big threat when he began with three birdies in five holes. He didn’t know how far – Spieth thought it was about 270 yards, caddie Michael Greller thought it was 230 yards, and the caddie persuaded him to hit a 3-iron.

Jordan Spieth almost made a hole-in-one on the par-three 14.

A wildly errant tee shot on the 13th evoked memories from last year’s Masters when Spieth threw away the green jacket with a disastrous quadruple seven on the par-three seventh.

“It was great to get out there and shoot the score I did”.

Even when he won his first Masters in 2015, Spieth was compared to the likes of Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.

Spieth had also birdied on hole 14 and then birdied hole 16 after his incredible eagle on 15. Chinese prodigy Li Haotong caused a sensation in the British Open on Sunday as he shot a sevenunder par 63 in his final round at Royal Birkdale to finish on six under par overall.

Kuchar had been hoping to extend that run and become the sixth champion from the last seven Opens aged 39 or older.

“The more you do it, the more scenarios you’ve gone through, and so the more you’re prepared for it and that helps”, he said. He’s come on the scene and no one works harder, no one goes about their business as diligently as him.