Golf: Jordan Spieth wins after the Masters and at the US Open in … – SPIEGEL ONLINE

21 years old is Jordan Spieth, despite already becoming lighter hair of Texans still looks like a boy, the comic hero reporter Tim not dissimilar. In his blue-white-striped polo shirt and immaculate white trousers Spieth stood on the parched grass of the golf course from Chambers Bay and looked at what lay in his arms.

The pensive look, the slightly crooked head down – Spieth had time for the US Father’s Day as a proud young father who looks at his newborn baby. But in his hands flashed the trophy of the US Open, the Spieth had just won the youngest player since Bobby Jones in 1923.

“I can not believe,” Spieth, who is in the world ranking only slightly behind the leader Rory McIlroy said: “This is something I’ve never seen.”

The US-American has been the first major of the year, the Masters in Augusta won. So now also the second, under completely different conditions – and in a more dramatic finale to the Spieth said: “The last nine holes were violent.”

Before the final day Spieth had with his compatriot Dustin Johnson, the tormented by vertigo Australians Jason Day and Branden Grace of South Africa on par located at the top.

Johnson needs from four yards three putts

Grace (71 strokes ) and Day (74) could not keep up in the sometimes insanely difficult place near Seattle on Sunday. For this, another South African, the former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen played, even the top three.

Spieth played on the 16 train a blow below standard, but allowed himself after a double-bogey and made it again exciting. Oosthuizen had presented a strong 67er Round. Spieth took on the 550-meter 18th hole a par to get the jump-off. He even played Birdie. Now everything depended on Johnson. An Eagle, just two strokes under par, and he would win. A stroke under par, and there would be a jump-off with Spieth. On one of his huge discounts a good blow followed the green. But four yards needed Johnson three strokes to sink the ball and Spieth had won.

“I had every chance in the world,” Johnson, the situation is likely to have occurred all too familiar said. Four times already he was about to triumph at a major, but in each case he was still guides his hand. It is a setback for Johnson, the recently improved steadily.

Almost a year ago the 31-year-old had announced a six-month break, to get help with “personal problems” as it was called. The American “Golf Magazine” reported that if they were covering up a doping suspension for cocaine abuse. However, the PGA Tour has remained in the version that the break is voluntary and even Johnson himself said something cryptic: “. I have problems, but problems of this type are not”

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“I was just trying to him to not stand in the way”

Since his comeback in February Johnson showed again why he before every Major of the favorites include athleticism, courage, ambition and of all the a lot. Before the final day Johnson had the best putt statistic, but then he collapsed on the last nine holes. “I hit the ball well, I’m proud of how I played today,” Johnson said, “Only with the putts I had problems here were the not really bad.”

It sounded next to the anger about yourself a little bit of frustration by about the condition of the greens, which had caused many of the celebrities and experts to tirades. “How broccoli” did that feel short cut grass, for example, said the Swede Henrik Stenson. To calculate the path of the ball is correspondingly difficult.

Spieth struck by all this. Compared to the Masters, he made more mistakes this time, but could not be different from the competition bring calm. “There’s always something to criticize,” Spieth, who had expressed himself displeasure over the square said, “In the end, has to keep a trophy in his hands.”

Spieth dedicated the title to his father and thanked especially when his caddy Michael Flash. Who worked until recently very close to the square as a teacher and even married in the grounds of Chambers Bay. That was one of the reasons why Flash was the player assured from the beginning that he had “just feel good here.” He had a lot of work but not had Flash said: “Jordan is one of the best players in the world I was just trying not to stand in his way..”