{"id":77331,"date":"2015-07-20T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=77331"},"modified":"2015-07-20T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:22:26","slug":"spieths-bid-for-grand-slam-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=77331","title":{"rendered":"Spieth&#8217;s bid for Grand Slam, stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/spieth2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77332\" alt=\"spieth2\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/spieth2.jpg\" width=\"129\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) &#8211; Jordan Spieth amazing bid for a Grand Slam was stopped Monday by Zach Johnson, no longer just a normal guy from Iowa.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Johnson captured his second major at the home of golf, winning the British Open in a playoff over Louis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman that capped off a wild five days at St. Andrews and a finish that won&#8217;t soon be forgotten.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Most of that was because of Spieth, who came within inches of a shot at the third leg of the Grand Slam. The Masters and U.S. Open champion rolled in a 50-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole to tie for the lead with two holes to play. He missed an 8-foot putt on the tough 17th hole and took bogey, and his final bid to join the playoff was a long birdie attempt from the edge of the Valley of Sin.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It turned left of the hole, ending the latest bid at the holy grail of golf &#8211; winning all four professional majors in the same year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;We gave it a great effort,&#8221; Spieth said.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spieth hung around for the playoff, and walked out to the course to give Johnson a hug before the 39-year-old received the silver claret jug.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Johnson rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole in regulation to close with a 6-under 66. Leishman badly missed his birdie putt that would have won it, while Oosthuizen hit a perfect wedge to 5 feet for birdie and a 69 to join the playoff.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Johnson opened the four-hole playoff with two birdies. When he missed his 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole at No. 18, Oosthuizen had a 12-foot birdie putt to force sudden death. It caught the left edge of the cup, and Johnson was in tears.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He said when he won the 2007 Masters that he was just a normal guy from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now he has two majors among his 12 PGA Tour victories.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m grateful. I&#8217;m humbled. I&#8217;m honored,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;This is the birthplace of the game, and that jug means so much in sports. I felt great. I&#8217;m just in awe right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) &#8211; Jordan Spieth amazing bid for a Grand Slam was stopped Monday by Zach Johnson, no longer just a normal guy from Iowa. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Johnson captured his second major at the home of golf, winning the British Open in a playoff over Louis Oosthuizen and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77336,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77331\/revisions\/77336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}