Monday 22 June 2015 20:33, UK
Jordan Spieth was left stunned by his dramatic victory in the US Open at Chambers Bay.
The Masters champion made it back-to-back major victories after his fellow American Dustin Johnson blew his chance to win the tournament by three-putting the last.
Johnson's 12-foot eagle putt slid past the cup and he then missed a four-foot birdie putt coming back to squander the opportunity of forcing an 18-hole play-off on Monday.
Spieth had earlier holed a curling 28-footer to birdie the 16th and forge three ahead, then shrugged off a double-bogey at the 17th with a birdie at the par-five 18th.
The 21-year-old is just the sixth player to win the Masters and hoist the US Open trophy in the same year and he is the youngest winner of the US Open since Bobby Jones in 1923.
It's cool to be able to have two legs of the grand slam now, and to conquer golf's hardest test.
"I'm still amazed that I won, let alone that we weren't playing tomorrow," Spieth said. "So for that turnaround right there, to watch that happen, I feel for Dustin.
"But I haven't been able to put anything in perspective yet. When I finished, I was just hoping to be playing tomorrow. I can't seem to wrap my head around the finish of today.
"It's cool to be able to have two legs of the grand slam now, and to conquer golf's hardest test. The US Open is conquering the hardest lay-out in all of golf.
"The fact that we did it is amazing. We really grinded this week. Didn't have my best stuff ball-striking at all and we really grinded over those four or five-footers ... that was the difference."
The victory saw Spieth join Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan and Craig Wood as the only players to have won the Masters and US Open in the same year and he is now looking forward to the Open Championship at St Andrews as he bids to complete an unprecedented calendar grand slam.
"The focus this year was on the majors," said the world No 2. They weren't on winning a certain number of times or getting into contention in a major. It was, 'Let's find a winning formula in a major.'
"To go to the Home of Golf in the next tournament is the sole focus, I am not going to look beyond that.
"But I guess you can't win them all unless you win the first two. We will go to St Andrews looking to win the Claret Jug. I believe we will be able to get the job done if we get the right prep in.
"I've proven to myself that I can win on a British-style golf course now. Now I take it to the truest British-style golf course of any in the world.
"And I'm just excited for the opportunity coming then, and I'm not going to think about what could possibly happen after."
