Royal Birkdale boasts two notable superlatives for Jordan Spieth.
Spieth's greatest shot and putt in a career full of great ones? Both came on these storied Southport links nearly a decade ago, in 2017, when Spieth captured the Claret Jug, his third and most recent major trophy, with an iconic closing stretch.
While Spieth's adventurous bogey on Birkdale's 13th hole, where he took a pair of drops that left him hitting his third shot from the practice range, gets talked about often, what Spieth did after that to eventually beat Matt Kuchar by three strokes on that Sunday afternoon is stuff of legends.
First, there was the stuffed 6-iron at the 199-yard, par-3 14th hole that lipped out before setting up a 5-foot birdie.
Then came the 48-foot eagle at the par-5 15th, where Spieth famously yelled at caddie Michael Greller to, "Go get that!"
Spieth's greatest shot and putt in a career full of great ones? Both came on these storied Southport links nearly a decade ago, in 2017, when Spieth captured the Claret Jug, his third and most recent major trophy, with an iconic closing stretch.
While Spieth's adventurous bogey on Birkdale's 13th hole, where he took a pair of drops that left him hitting his third shot from the practice range, gets talked about often, what Spieth did after that to eventually beat Matt Kuchar by three strokes on that Sunday afternoon is stuff of legends.
First, there was the stuffed 6-iron at the 199-yard, par-3 14th hole that lipped out before setting up a 5-foot birdie.
Then came the 48-foot eagle at the par-5 15th, where Spieth famously yelled at caddie Michael Greller to, "Go get that!"
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