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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.

But once the grounds crew got at it with squeegees and pumps and the breeze wafted over the ancient turf, it firmed up quickly and the assault on par picked up pretty much where it left off Thursday.

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.

Surely there would be more magic to come and Spieth would enter the record books as the first player to win his first three majors of the year since Ben Hogan did it 62 years ago.

Masters and US Open champion Jordan Spieth, playing alongside Johnson, remained at five under after three bogeys and three birdies in his 13 holes.

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

Today Team Sky attempted to wrest back control of the PR agenda by releasing Froome’s performance data yesterday.

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.

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.

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.