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And now, with a final-round 66 on the Old Course, followed by a 1-under-par effort in the aggregate playoff, Johnson’s name is engraved alongside the likes of Jones, Snead, Hogan, Palmer, Nicklaus, Trevino, Watson, Woods, Mickelson and many, many more.

Johnson outlasted Marc Leishman and his good friend Louis Oosthuizen in a four hole playoff to win the 2015 British Open at St. Andrew’s.

And like the mailman, nothing nature could throw his way could stop Johnson from his appointed rounds on Saturday.

Jason Day is tied for the lead after 54 holes of a major.

Open champions are about as far removed from golfing tourists as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are from Sunday league amateurs.

Danny Willett believes he is still in contention for a first major title, despite shooting a level-par round of 72 on Sunday and dropping back down the leaderboard at the 144th Open Championship. His 70 was a unusual effort, having started with an ugly double-bogey 6 but then...

“But I’ll have a smile on my face and enjoy walking around St. Andrews, I can tell you that”. And right now there’s nothing Spieth wants more than his name on the claret jug that goes to the British Open victor.

University of Alabama student Dunne – whose coach Alan Murray is also his caddie this week – is the first amateur since the legendary Bobby Jones to lead the Open after 54 holes, the American going on to lift the Claret Jug at St Andrews in 1927.

Jordan Spieth was a stroke behind the leaders with a shot at his third consecutive major tournament victory.

Jordan Spieth is the oddmakers’ choice as the clear favorite to win the British Open, but there are other ways to wager on the action. This morning, when we went out, it was almost impossible, but we managed to hang in there. But his shot seemed to hit an invisible wall as...

Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images Tiger Woods walks away from the 144th British Open after finishing seven shots off the cutline.

A 6-foot 8-inch specimen who runs like a gazelle throws a basketball off the backboard, catches it in midair and thrashes it down with one hand while we go ohhhhhhhh!!! He had only three birdies over 36 holes and said he has no idea why his shots didn’t penetrate in the...

Rickie Fowler is a product of the same sunny Southern California golf treadmill that produced Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods. He’s finding the winner’s circle much easier to locate in 2015.

Spieth, the reigning Australian Open champion, started the John Deere Classic slowly and was eight shots back after the opening round. He beat out Tom Gillis in a sudden-death playoff.

In unrelated-but-related news, Tiger Woods also played in The Greenbrier Classic and shot a three-under 67 on Sunday.