ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Not surprisingly, Texas tough Jordan Spieth went down fighting in his march toward history on an ancient links hard by the North Sea.
Surprisingly, however, it was his putter that did in his bid for history.
The world’s No. 2-ranked player and winner of the first two majors of 2015 needed four whacks with the shortest and best club in his bag on the eighth hole of the hallowed Old Course in Monday’s final round of the 144th edition of the British Open to make a double-bogey 5. The blemish on the scorecard proved to be too much to overcome, and Spieth fell one shot short of a playoff and one major shy of joining Ben Hogan as the only players to win the Masters, U.