It’s the oldest and most prestigious trophy in golf. It comes with the traditional “champion golfer of the year” announcement that runs in highlight packages for years to come. Phil Mickelson has put $40,000 bottles of wine in it. Ernie Els has “disappeared with it for a few days” after winning. Darren Clarke showed up hungover with it after winning in 2011. It’s the best trophy in the game and now Jordan Spieth gets to keep it, drink out of it, and strut with it for the next year as The Open Championship winner.
Jordan Spieth receives the Claret Jug after wild finish to win the British Open
The most prestigious trophy in golf is now Jordan Spieth’s as the “champion golfer of the year.”
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Spieth, of course, has touched the Claret Jug before, which he was told was bad luck. Back in 2015, when he just missed winning at St. Andrews and preposterously taking the first three majors of the same season, Spieth flew home from Scotland with Zach Johnson. Spieth and ZJ have become friends over the years and stayed in the same house this week at Royal Birkdale. But back in 2015, it was Spieth’s photo with it on the private jet with ZJ that made the most immediate waves.
Now Spieth has it all for himself for a year, and destroyed the superstition that the 2015 photo was somehow bad luck.
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