luck attached to it, it looked like the youngster from Dallas was on his way to another final-round meltdown that was reminiscent of his disaster at Augusta in 2016. It denied him his third major and second Green Jacket in as many years.

After making bogey, it went from bad to worse. The short putts that he made on Saturday suddenly had trips on the cellophane highway around the cup.

Spieth had trouble on the big shots when the wind was hitting him in the back. It was the drive at the 13th hole that started the sequence that will be remembered as long as there is an Open Championship.

His ball went so far right that it cleared the dunes next to the driving range and was, for all practicalpurposes, unplayable.

Johnny Miller continued to call for him to go back to the tee, but in all of the chaos, Jordan Spieth kept his head and understood that the driving range was part of the golf course. He could take relief anywhere that he could get line of site around trailers and cameras.

He had caddie Michael Greller go back on the hill and show him the way to the green.

He even had the patience and knowledge to wave Greller away from the target line so he wouldn’t incur another penalty.

The blind third shot turned into the biggest bogey of is career.

Then came the magic!

A near hole-out at the par three 14th hole got him back even with Matt Kuchar before he drained a 45 foot eagle putt at