Spieth’s victory on Sunday was unconventional in many ways. He put it on terribly throughout the week, which was underlined by a lost 18-inch fake in the last hole on Saturday that seemed destined to bite him into the 4th round. However, after making two eagles on the front of the road, he drained an elongated bird into the last one that entered the club at 13 down with several players still on the way. This was the second unconventional part of his victory. Rarely do we see a player post as early as Sunday and continue to win. When he stood on the 18th jersey at the bottom 12 before making a bird in the last hole of the tournament, Data Golf gave him a 0.8% chance to claim the trophy. But as Harold Warner III, Shane Lowry, Sepp Straka and others disbanded, his chances of winning began to rise. In the end, only Cantlay was able to match Spieth at 13 below, as Cantlay dropped a bird into the 17th hole and took his Ryder Cup teammate into extra holes. Spieth’s hit at No. 18 on Saturday once again crossed the minds of all who watched. This single blow would have won the tournament completely, and the golf gods seemed ready to deliver a blow in the direction of Cantlay. However, this is the highest wire in all the sports we are talking about, and Spieth almost drilled his bird bunker in the first hole of the playoffs, while Cantlay’s fell about 15 feet away in the same trap. He could not get it anywhere near the hole and Spieth stole a tournament he might not have had to win. “I won this bike-free golf tournament. This is one of the worst tournaments I have ever played in,” Spieth told CBS after the round. “I just tried to stay tough with that, to be very positive in the back nine today. After I missed a few short shots, I did one at 13, and that really calmed me down and just gave me a chance at 18. I’m very proud of that. – I’m quite negative since I lost a tap-in here, I was lazy yesterday – I’m glad it did not affect [today]. ” Spieth finished almost last on the field in winning streaks, which is unusual for a tournament champion. He lost 2.5 strokes on the court with just his flat stick (more than three of those in the last three rounds) and did not make even one stroke more than 4 feet on Saturday. This is amazing, and it speaks volumes about how well he is doing and how much he needs to improve with some huge events on deck, including next month’s PGA Championship, where he will claim the career grand slam. It had been more than a year since Spieth last won the PGA Tour as he won the Texas Open last Easter Sunday. RBC Heritage scored its second victory after the 2017 Open Championship but the 13th overall in its career. Prior to his three-year drought, Spieth wept profusely from 2015-17, winning three major championships (2015 Masters, 2015 US Open, 2017 Open) along with the 2015 Tour Championship and six other races during that time. Spieth joined RBC Heritage coming out of the missed cut at Augusta National this year, a show that clearly irritated him and probably encouraged him to return a week later to a RBC Heritage tournament where he had a good story. “Last week was really deadly for me: my favorite tournament in the world, which I did not get to play at the weekend. So, I came in and worked very hard here. … adjustment there, “said Spieth.” … It feels amazing. “ The result here for Spieth is multifaceted. There is so much at stake with the season just over and his tee-to-green game (where he was top of the field in two of the last three games) seemingly settled. He still has three major tournaments on deck, including the PGA Higher Betting and the Old Course at St. Louis. Andrews where he ended a stroke from the playoffs in 2015. When you throw the big one after that, there is even more intrigue. After two consecutive victories at Easter, next year’s holiday falls on a weekend that may interest the three-time big champion: Masters Sunday. “These are good feelings,” said the 2015 Green Jacket winner, who has four other finishes in the top three at Augusta National. “I guess I really did not put two and two together there. This is wonderful. What an amazing day.” Grade: A + Here are the rest of our 2022 RBC Heritage scores. Patrick Cantlay (2nd): Last week at the Masters, winner Scottie Scheffler talked a lot about how his goal is just to put himself in conflict, because it is much easier to win from a point of contention than to try to do a run out of it. Cantlay has incorporated this this year, even though he has not won yet. It fell last month, but Cantlay opened in 2022 with four consecutive top 10, and this is his second playoff defeat of the year. This may sound like a failure, but winning the PGA Tour is a war of percentages and if you put yourself in the mix several times in a few years, you will win a handful of trophies. Cantlay experienced the other side of last year when he won some events he may not have had, such as the Memorial Tournament when third-round leader Jon Rahm had to retire with a positive COVID-19 test. I would love to see Cantlay, who has struggled a bit in the big ones, really click for the next three. Grade A. Shane Lowry (T3): Sunday was such a difficult outcome for the Irishman, who came in playing such great golf. After rescuing several pars returning home, he built an awesome double bower at par-3 14th when he fell into the water from a garbage dump near the green. This is his fifth consecutive finish in the Top 15 on the PGA Tour and, like Cantlay, if he continues to knock on doors at events like this, it will eventually open for him. Grade A. Dylan Frittelli (T66): Frittelli shot 5 on Sunday and was not at all close to the top of the standings, but I wanted to include him because I wanted to include this hilarious shot from a tree, which was then punished with two strokes. episodes for hitting due to a wild rule stating that he was standing in line with his ball (which was hanging in the air!). The most normal sport! Grade: A + in the shot, D for the event