Dan Mullan(Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)Unless you're a masochist, most of the Open Championship's final round was watched with your hands covering your eyes. But, following one of the most bizarre scenes in golf history, viewers' patience was rewarded with a closing stretch for the history books, capped off by one of the game's best reclaiming his throne. Here are the the winners & losers of Day 4 at Royal Birkdale.
Winner: Jordan Spieth
If Saturday was a smooth weekend drive through the countryside, most of Sunday was a battle to keep the car on the road with two flat tires and killer bees coming through the dashboard. But tournaments are not scored by style points; they are decided by will, guts, temerity. Say what you will about his opening nerves, the three-putt on the ninth, his adventures on the 13th, but that finish (birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie) was fortitude incarnate. Spieth became the second-youngest winner to grab three major titles, and the youngest ..