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ST. LOUIS – If the fact that Jack Nicklaus has more major runner-ups (19) than major victories (18) was ever lost, it’s certainly been found.
These days, it’s an oft-cited bit of trivia, usually invoked in a Jack-or-Tiger debate.
But it also speaks to the idea that even the game’s best won’t win every time, and that frequent contention probably says more about a player than the odd victory amid years of futility.
In six years on Tour, Jordan Spieth has enjoyed a career’s worth of major triumphs and heartbreaks. There was the runaway at the 2015 Masters; the birdie-double bogey-birdie finish at the 2015 U.