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Johnson was runner-up at the British Open in Sandwich in 2011 while the year before he was leading the U.S. PGA at Whistling Straights with one hole to play but was denied a play-off after being docked two shots for a rules infringement when he grounded his club in a bunker.

Father-of-three Zach Johnson refused to get too carried away after winning the 144th British Open in a four-hole playoff with South African Louis Oosthuizen and Australian Marc Leishman on Monday.

Zach Johnson clinched his second major title after winning the 144 Open Championship in a play-off against Louis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman at St Andrews.

He had two in the four-hole playoff. By the end of the season Spieth is likely to be pulling in $5 million to $10 million in annual endorsements, said Matt Delzell, managing director of The Marketing Arm, who negotiates such endorsement deals.

Zach Johnson won the British Open on Monday, July 20, emerging victorious from a gripping 4-hole playoff against Louis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman.

South Africa’ Louis Oosthuizen drives the ball off the fourth tee in the final round of the British Open at the Old Course, St. Andrews, Scotland, on Monday.

Jordan Spieth, in search of the third leg of the Grand Slam, was done in by putting clean off the eighth green from what was probably the 10 green, and taking three more from there for a double bogey. Neither was meant to be this year.

Zach Johnson won the British Open on Monday, July 20, emerging victorious from a gripping 4-hole playoff against Louis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman.

ST ANDREWS, Scotland American Zach Johnson claimed the second major triumph of his career after winning a four-hole playoff at the end of a captivating, cliffhanger of a final round in the British Open on Monday.

“Yeah, mate, I’m happy”, he said.

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.

Spieth’s bid for an unprecedented golfing grand slam ended agonisingly at the British Open on Monday after he missed joining a three-way play-off by one stroke.

The only golfer to win what’s called a Grand Slam was Jones, who in 1930 won the US and British Opens and US and British Amateurs at a time when those were considered the major championships of golf.