Jordan Spieth Wins RBC Heritage

Jordan Spieth won on the second consecutive Easter Sunday by capturing the RBC Heritage at Harbor Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, SC. The three-time major champion defeated reigning FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay on the first hole of a sudden death playoff after the two PGA Tour stars finished deadlocked at 13-under at the end of regulation.

“You have a lot of events where you feel like you should have won and someone outplays you or makes the putt or something, and a couple times you have one where you feel like you played good but not good enough to win, and I honestly felt like this was that week,” Spieth said. “I needed a lot of things to go right. I needed to birdie the 18th then needed some help, got some help, dodged a bunch of bullets coming in, and ended up in a one-on-one playoff where my lie in the bunker, although not great, was certainly better than Patrick’s. Yeah, it’s a bit of a surprise.”

The victory comes on the heels on Spieth’s first ever missed cut in the Masters.

“I never missed a cut at the Masters before and very rarely had not had a chance to win on the weekend. So I hated it. It was the worst feeling. It was the worst feeling as a golfer that I can remember,” Spieth said. “It’s my favorite tournament in the world, and I just love contending at that event. I was hitting it really, really well and honestly just didn’t feel like I deserved to miss that cut. I felt like I hit shots right where I wanted to and ended up somehow at 6-over.”

Spieth takes home $1.44 million and 500 FedEx Cup points for his 13th PGA Tour victory.

Cantlay caught a bad break with a plugged lie in the bunker on the first playoff hole and after watching Spieth nearly hole out on his sand shot, he hit it out to 35 feet beyond the cup and missed the comeback par putt.

“It obviously caught a different wind than what I was expecting. The wind was supposed to be off the right. If anything, a little down, and I must have caught a little burst,” Cantlay said. “Obviously with it plugged like that, it’s darn near impossible to get it close.”

There was a seven-way tie for third as overnight leader Harold Varner III, Shane Lowry, Matt Kuchar, Cam Davis, Sepp Straka, Cameron Young and J.T. Poston all finished one shot out of the playoff.

Next up on the PGA Tour is the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.