The last Open at the Old Course was a runaway, this was a thriller won by one of the shortest hitters in the world and now, a likely Hall of Famer with his second major win.
Zach Johnson has won The Open Championship at St. Andrews. Paul Newberry's AP report.
Your immediate thoughts, reactions, takeaways, dashed Grand Slam hopes and highlights from another memorable week in St. Andrews.
My kneejerk take: the Old Course was regularly overpowered during the week and, due to the combination of softness and so little difference in the precision of today's players, wasn't able to separate the field quite as well as we'd hope. However, to see a tactician win over the Old Course defending champion in Louis Oosthuizen and red-hot power player in Marc Leishman (along with the world's elite in Spieth, Day, Rose, Scott, etc...) only reinforces the purity of the place.
And we still need a distance rollback at the professional level.