St. Andrews, Scotland: Two years ago at Muirfield, Jordan Spieth was virtually the last man into the tournament for the Open. This year, he was among the last again –only in terms of arriving at the venue.


USA's Jordan Spieth (left) walks across the greens at St Andrews during practice on the eve of The Open Championships yesterday. Pic/AFP 

The reason: he was busy adding another trophy to his burgeoning collection on Sunday at the John Deere Classic. Barely 16 hours after holding the Trophy – his fourth in 2015 and all of them in the past four months – he was on a charter flight from Illinois and arrived into Scotland at 10.30 am. Checking into the house for the week, he came to the Old Course, signed a lot of autographs and then hit the range.