Bubba Watson places the Green Jacket on 2015 Champion Jordan Spieth at the 79th Masters Golf Tournament.
Bubba Watson places the Green Jacket on 2015 Champion Jordan Spieth at the 79th Masters Golf Tournament.PHOTOGRAPH BY DON EMMERT / AFP / GETTY IMAGES
There’s an old saying that goes, “The Masters doesn’t really begin until the leaders start out on the back nine on Sunday afternoon.” This year, that was where the tournament more or less ended. When Jordan Spieth holed out from just off the green, to the left of the tenth hole, he moved six shots ahead of Justin Rose and Phil Mickelson. For a player of Spieth’s quality and steadiness, half a dozen shots is a huge lead, and despite the best efforts of the television commentators to insist that it wasn’t over, we all knew it was.