Spieth Gives Back To Royal Birkdale, Basically Thanks Them For Never Making Their Driving Range OB
- Updated: October 18, 2017
Special delivery to the club today.No ordinary 3 Iron (No visible ill effects of playing from the range!)Many Thanks @JordanSpieth #TheOpen pic.twitter.com/3QAvWCWu4J
— Royal Birkdale Golf Club (@royalbirkdale) October 18, 2017
Normally golf clubs are enshrined for record-breaking shots usually resulting in par or better, except if you’re Jordan Spieth.
Since the Champion Golfer of the year couldn’t give back the half-hour he spent taking a ruling on that fateful 13th hole during the final round of the Open, he did the next logical thing.
As a “thank you”, Spieth sent Royal Birkdale the infamous 3-iron he used to play from the driving range en route to arguably the best (and smartest) bogey of all time.
It will now sit in the clubhouse alongside other mementos of past Open champions and serve as a reminder of how ridiculous it is that the driving range still hasn’t been marked OB since the course was established in the late 1800s.
In case you forgot or blacked it out, here’s the whole sequence which would’ve had Old Tom Morris rolling in his grave:
