Jordan Spieth’s Graciousness Took PGA Championship Winner Jason Day By Surprise

His rating of 17 underneath par wasn’t fairly ok to overhaul Jason Day on the PGA Championship, however runner-up Jordan Spieth walks away with a pleasant comfort.

The also-ran in so many majors ran over the entire field at Whistling Straits, holding the incredible Jordan Spieth at arm’s length the entire final round for a three-shot victory and a record score.

But, back to the first tee on Sunday at Whistling Straits and why I thought it was going to be different. “You only get four a year, to have an opportunity to win all of them is so cool”.

“The biggest thing that prepares you for something like this is just the sheer experience of failure”, Day said.

It was at the third major of the year, the British Open at St Andrews, where he missed the play-off by a single shot, that Day said he finally came around that corner.

What really mattered was that shiny Wanamker Trophy at his side.

“Just pure frustration”, he said. Day is the fifth Australian to win the US PGA Championship, joining Jim Ferrier, David Graham, Wayne Grady and Steve Elkington, who last won it in 1995.

The last two majors should emphasize how remarkable it was that Jordan Spieth won the first two.

But Day thwarted that dream with a three-stroke win over Spieth, who nevertheless dislodged Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy from the number one spot he had held for 55 consecutive weeks.

I never expected to be here. But he needs to keep showing up or Day will take the crown. By his own admission, he went “off the rails a little bit” after his father died of cancer. McIlroy is the 6-1 second-favorite at the Masters, where the 26-year-old Northern Irishman will again be seeking a win to complete the career Grand Slam of all four major titles. But not winning had haunted him. “He turned pro at 19 – that’s usually frowned upon but he’s made the most of it and he’s my favourite golfer to watch”.

He called his man “100 percent resilient… tenacity, the willingness to fight, dig deeper than anybody”. “It’s wonderful to think about”, Spieth said. “Maybe there’s another level he can go to, a deeper level mentally and it might make a difference for him. There have been such unbelievable golfers … and to have that record just goes to show the work I’ve put in is paying off”. But after the fourth hole, he was never closer than three shots.

Some of the talk is perfectly accurate about how many good young players there are in the game today and how they are redefining the game with their ability to hit the ball stunning distances with tremendous accuracy. He was 14 under at the PGA Championship.