Excitement, drama, suspense and a quality winner. That’s all we wish for at our major championships.
The 115th U.S. Open gave us all of that and more as Jordan Spieth won and lost and then won his second consecutive major championship in both a spectacular and painful finish.
The drama and excitement were provided by a quartet of golfers as Spieth, Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen and Dustin Johnson combined to give us an edge of the seat finish and then Johnson took center stage and delivered the most painful of endings.
Johnson had earned a three shot lead with birdies on the front nine. Spieth had dropped back with an opening bogey. But Spieth had fought back with late birds while Oosthuizen came from nowhere to challenge the lead. 
Grace was in the mix until he took a shot at the train tracks next to sixteen and double bogeyed.
Spieth came on with birdies on twelve and sixteen while Johnson faded with three early bogeys on the back nine.
It came down to Spieth standing on the seventeenth tee with a three shot lead. He then fanned his tee ball into the rough which led to a double bogey five. His three shot lead was gone and he was tied with Oosthuizen.
When Johnson birdied to join the tie it looked like a Monday playoff.
Then Spieth started the theatrical finish with a two putt birdie on the par five eighteenth and that left Johnson one stroke down coming down the eighteenth fairway which he split with a massive drive.
A five iron into the green gave him a twelve foot putt for eagle and the win. At worst a birdie brings DJ and Spieth back for Monday’s playoff.
Johnson took plenty of time with his eagle putt but it slid three feet by. He then took no time to line up his birdie and it showed. He pulled it left, past the cup and a collective gasp from the crowd told Spieth he was the U.S. Open Champion.
It was a bitter sweet moment for Spieth who said he didn’t want to see Johnson miss that putt.
As Johnson hurried away with his family Spieth rejoiced with his.
The 21 year old is the youngest U.S. Open Champion since Bobby Jones in 1923.
He is the first since Tiger Woods in 2002 to win both The Masters and The U.S. Open consecutively.
He’s half way to the Grand Slam and the face of American Golf.
It was a great day for Jordan Spieth and there’s plenty more to come.
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