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“US OPEN-WIN OF A LIFETIME”
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JJ Spaun, an Aztecs golfer, struggling to find his PGA career, had a golf day for all time, surely the greatest day of his so-so career.
One never to forget.
Spaun beat the Oakmont Country Club course, heavy rains, winds, 5″deep rough, pot bunkers, and a field that was self-destructing around him, to win the US Open on the historic Cathedral Golf Course outside of Pittsburgh.
He bogeyed 5-of the first 6-holes on Sunday, a far cry from his very good first and second rounds. He did not cave in. The rain delay let him refocus-reset.
And then as the course buried everyone of the other 6-golfers who were jammed at the top of the leaderboard, he steadied and made shots.
Spaun did not lose his composure, birdied 17, and then hit a 64′ putt up hill and curled it into the cup for the monumental birdie putt win
it was an amazing final day that gets him guaranteed spots for a decade in the Masters and the US Opens.
As golfers got to the turn the horizon looking towards Pittsburgh looked ominous. It was a skyline of black clouds and impending bad weather. It started to drizzle, then it was rain drops as big as gum drops, and then it stormed a deluge. It came so quick the greens flooded and the fairways looked like rivers. It took nearly 2-hours to get a break in the weather, and get the water off the greens.
It was stunning to see the rain wipe out Nick Burns, a leader for two days. Ty Hatton self destructed . Adam Scott lost his putter along the way. Scottie Scheffler dug too deep a hole to rally back. The Scottish star Robert McInryre ran out of holes as did the Swede Victor Hovland.
But an Aztec-4-Life shocked the world, beat the weatherman, subdued the historic course, and won the 123-year old US Open. And as he came off the 18th green, the soaked-sellout crowd rained cheers on him, shouting “JJ-JJ”, a sight to behold for one of our own.
A day, a round, a weekend forever with a US Open Trophy now to highlite his career. The hardest road to travel, and JJ Spaun slogged thru it, put on a dazzling show, with an exclamation point birdie putt, never to be forgotten.
What a day for an Aztec-4-Life.
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