Jordan Spieth may be angrier than Dustin Johnson over the scoring debacle at the US Open.
Spieth ripped the USGA again on Wednesday for deducting a stroke from Johnson’s score and leaving the eventual champ in limbo for most of the final round of the tournament.
An official informed Johnson on the 12th hole on Sunday that they were reviewing an incident back on the fifth hole in which the USGA believed Johnson made his ball move. Johnson had called in an official on the fifth hole, who ruled there was no penalty, but now — with Johnson leading the tournament by two strokes — the USGA told him they’d decide after the round whether to give Johnson a one-stroke penalty.
“I think that it was unfortunate the way it then played out, and they agree, and they said that,” Spieth said Wednesday. “And I think that what Dustin did was extremely special given that circumstance. I would have thrown a fit. I promise you, I would have thrown a fit. I wouldn’t have hit another shot. I would have sat there like this is not the way this goes. Let’s figure this out right now. You can’t have a potential penalty or not. You’ve got to know in that case.”
Spieth and other PGA stars ripped the USGA while the drama unfolded.
Johnson was deducted one stroke after his round, but luckily it made no difference as he still won by three strokes. To the USGA’s credit, they issued a statement the following day expressing regret over how the whole thing was handled.
Johnson was far more casual about the incident.
“At the end of the day it didn’t f—— matter,” Johnson said after claiming his first major.