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The future of golf is Jordan Spieth.

“I’ve certainly closed plenty of tournaments out, and this just wasn’t one of those”, the reigning Masters and U.S. Open champion said.

Zach Johnson is 39-years-old. All three made bogey on 17, again, no surprise, and after Johnson missed his birdie putt on 18, Oosthuizen had an opportunity to tie him and send the playoff to sudden death.

Jordan Spieth headed home from a grueling week at the British Open with history on his mind and another major in his future. He would also have had a chance at golf’s first-ever modern day grand slam at the upcoming US PGA Championship.

At least he was in elite company. Spieth has won four tournaments this year, including two majors – the Masters and U.S. Open – and he’s finished in the top five in six others.

Pre-Tour talk focused on a possible four-way battle between Froome, Quintana, 2014 champion Vincenzo Nibali and two-time victor Alberto Contador, but it was Quintna, a 25-year-old Colombian, who again won the Tour’s white jersey as the best young rider and gave Froome a run...

The vehicle escaped with its two occupants apparently unharmed after coming under fire around 11 a.m. (0900 GMT; 5 a.m. EDT) in the Place de la Concorde, where the cyclists make their final triumphant rounds to conclude the race, said Luc Poignant, a spokesman with the SGP police...

Cheered on the Champs-Elysees under suitably rainy skies for Britain’s third win in the 112-year-old race, Froome took it easy on the last Stage 21, his work done having grimly resisted Quintana’s last-ditch assault on his hard-won Tour lead on Saturday on the final...

Froome, champion in 2013, responded to limit his losses to just 80 seconds as France’s Thibaut Pinot won the stage.

ONE OF the revelations of last year’s Tour de France won yesterday’s 18th stage, the second in the Alps, with a masterclass in attacking climbing and daredevil descending. He just didn’t expect that would happen when he was stopped by the side of the road.

Last week, it was reported that Alberto Contador, the Tour of Italy victor, had faced no doping questions during his ride to victory this May.

Today’s Tour de France Standings battle took the riders from Gap to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.

Wimbledon champion Serena Williams will take the next week off in an effort to heal the right elbow injury that forced her out of the Swedish Open, she said in a Facebook post Saturday.

– Scott admitting his shattering 2012 near miss at Royal Lytham, when he closed with four consecutive bogeys to lose by a shot, was driving his quest for the Claret Jug.

Froome’s Sky team, meanwhile, have been urged to provide more information as the row with France 2 over their doping slurs rumbles on.