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But as for now, Dunne remains an amateur even though he completed his career as a college golfer at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and the reason is because he wants to compete in the Walker Cup later this year, according to the Irish Times. He made three straight birdies.

Jordan Spieth will be left to reflect on just how close he came to keeping his calendar grand slam dreams alive at St Andrews on Monday. Spieth puffed out his cheeks and trudged off looking disconsolate.

Spieth almost was able to jump in and earn a spot in the playoff round, but he mucked it all up on the last hole at St. Andrews.

(AP Photo/Alastair Grant). United States’ Zach Johnson gets a birdie on the 18th during the final round at the British Open Golf Championship at the Old Course, St. Andrews, Scotland, Monday, July 20, 2015.

Spieth lost his chance on the greens at the Old Course at St. Andrews.

Behind Spieth, Ireland’s Padraig Harrington — a two-time British Open champion and three-time major victor — sits on 10-under.

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.