U.S. Open 2015: Leaderboard, live coverage, results and more from Sunday’s final round

The 2015 U.S. Open ultimately came down to a five foot putt from Dustin Johnson. While he stood over the ball waiting to make a stroke that would either send him to a playoff or another brutal near miss, Jordan Spieth was in the scorer’s tent anxiously watching the finish with his caddie.

The two were at the center of the golf world. They would either head to an 18-hole Monday playoff or Spieth would be the U.S. Open champion. The story of that putt and Spieth’s win have been well told, but they have overshadowed what was nearly one of the most improbable comebacks in U.S. Open history. Some 20 minutes before Spieth was watching Johnson putt, Louis Oosthuizen was standing in an interview area watching Spieth putt on No. 18. Oosthuizen had just set the clubhouse lead at 4-under and was primed for a playoff. Spieth birdied, however, ending Oosthuizen’s hopes and causing the greatest comeback in U.S. Open history to come up a shot short. The fact he was even in that position at all was incredible considering how he started the tournament.

1. The future arrives. “It’s pretty fucking impressive.” Billy Horschel, the reigning $10 million FedExCup champion, had just finished napalming the USGA and Chambers Bay so he was already excitable when he was asked about the possibility of Jordan Spieth taking the first two legs of the Grand Slam at age 21. His enthusiasm for that topic almost matched his eagerness to savage the course conditions.

Spieth, of course, followed through on the hypothetical posed to Horschel about five hours later, adding to this dream post-Tiger stretch and lighting a bonfire of hype for the rest of the summer. When asked about Rory McIlroy and him holding all four majors, Spieth was quick to throw in Rickie Fowler’s name as the reigning champion of the “fifth major.”

Some 13 hours before the leaders reached the 18th tee, a decision was made that would change the course of the 2015 U.S. Open. All week the word was that No. 18 would play as a traditional U.S. Open finishing hole: A long, difficult par-4 where a player could card a “good” bogey and par required two precise shots and some solid putting. And then everything changed.

When the course was set up early Friday morning, the wind was coming across the 18th from left to right if you were standing on the tee box. It was this wind that nudged USGA executive director Mike Davis to set the first hole, coming down the hill, as a par-4 and the final hole as a par-5. Without this decision, the 72nd hole of the 2015 U.S. Open looks very different.

Billy Horschel may very well be hearing from the USGA disciplinarians for his behavior on the sixth green at the U.S. Open but in the meantime he has apologized for his outburst in which he appeared to drive his putter angrily into the putting surface.

He did not put a divot in the broccoli patch as it turned out, and he proceeded to take out his frustrations on the ninth green with a less violent serpentine dance move. But it was the ax-like motion on the sixth for which BillyHo sent his regrets to Golf Channel’s Gary Williams.

UNIVERSITY PLACE, WASH. -- The U.S. Open was its typical Sunday slog for much of the afternoon at Chambers Bay, but the final hour burst with dramatic turns and a history-making win. Winning the U.S. Open and Masters in the same year puts Jordan Spieth in a class with Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Ben Hogan. So it was a huge moment in the history and future of the game. Here are 3 things we learned taking in a wild Sunday finish at Chambers Bay.

Before Sunday and before another major championship weekend where he settled in on the first page of the leaderboard, Jordan Spieth had won the crowd at Chambers Bay. Tiger Woods suffered several indignities during his short two-day stay, and an unintended one was having to play one group behind Jordan Spieth through the first two rounds.

UNIVERSITY PLACE, WASH. -- Jordan Spieth stood over a 5-foot bogey putt on the 71st hole of the U.S. Open. He had done well to get it to that point after an errant tee shot found the right rough, just feet from the train tracks that run parallel to the 17th hole. At the time, he held a three-stroke lead and only needed to avoid disaster to win the U.S. Open. Get out with a bogey and collect your trophy.

Then disaster struck.

Dustin Johnson was poised to send the 2015 U.S. Open to a playoff, but this putt ensured Jordan Spieth would be the champion. Johnson missed an earlier eagle putt that would have won, but everyone in attendance thought this was going to be a gimme.

What a heartbreaking moment.

We’ve seen baseball players hit home runs onto train tracks before, but this might be the first time a golfer has hit one onto the tracks at a major. Branden Grace was tied for the lead, but then this happened.

(h/t @WillBrinson)

Sunday at the U.S. Open is all about avoiding disasters, something four-time PGA Tour winner Chris Kirk knows a little something about after stumbling to a 6-over 10 on the first hole out of the gate in Sunday’s final round of the U.S. Open.

For those unfamiliar with golf speak, that’s a sextuple bogey.

You know Jordan Spieth has made it into the pantheon of PGA Tour superstars when his whining about the 2015 U.S. Open course setup forces the powers-that-be to cave into his demands.

In this case, Spieth complaining on Friday to an open Fox Sports mic for the world to hear that No. 18 as a par-4 at Chambers Bay was “the dumbest hole I’ve ever played” definitely had an impact on USGA executive director Mike Davis’ decision to play the 72nd hole of the U.S. Open as a par-5.