UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – Let’s just call this the rubber match.
Patrick Reed clipped Jordan Spieth in a playoff to win the Wyndham Championship in 2013. Earlier this year, Spieth returned the favor when he beat Reed in a playoff at the Valspar Championship.
Saturday at the U.S. Open the Ryder Cup partners who went 2-0-1 as rookies last year at Gleneagles will go head-to-head in the final pairing at Chambers Bay. It’s the first time in the modern era that 36-hole co-leaders in the U.S. Open are 24 years old or younger.