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Carnoustie’s 6th is a 580-yard par-five that runs inland from the sea. The fairway is split, to one side there is a track, which is out of bounds, and on the other is a set of four bunkers. They call it Hogan’s Alley, because when Ben Hogan won the Open here in 1953 he is said to have slotted the ball down the left and through that narrow little corridor, a gap around 25ft wide, on all four days he played. It was here, 65 years later, that Jordan Spieth, the greatest golfer to come out of Texas since Hogan finished, settled his championship, with a drive that flew wide the other side.
Spieth started the day at nine under, in a three-way tie with two men who had never won a major before, Kevin Kisner and Xander Schauffele. He was the favourite, then, and set to become the first man under 25 to win two Open championships back-to-back since Young Tom Morris did it back in the 19th century. Dan Jenkins, doyen of the US golf writers, and as Texan as a 10-gallon hat, described Spieth as “the perfect Texas pro” with “the will and focus of Ben Hogan, the likability of Byron Nelson, and the putting stroke of Ben Crenshaw”.
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