ST. ANDREWS, Scotland
The walk from the 18th green, past the first tee, across a public walkway, into the recorders’ office and up to an interview stand took roughly 10 minutes, time enough for Jordan Spieth to swallow his disappointment and digest the lessons from his heartbreaking defeat at the British Open.
Spieth, who was trying to become the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win the Masters, the United States Open and the British Open in the same year, finished one stroke out of a three-man playoff, won by Zach Johnson.