Jordan Spieth Wins Thrilling Valspar Championship

The choke factor reared its head again but not to the extent we've seen in recent PGA Tour weeks, allowing for a captivating final round to the 2015 Valspar Championship. Jordan Spieth did his best Seve imitation, scraping it around enough to land in a playoff with Sean O'Hair and Patrick Reed, prevailing on the third hole of sudden death.

Spieth hasn't changed much with the post shot dialogue and reactions that irk some, but as Randall Mell points out, it sure makes the 2-time PGA Tour winner fun to watch.

There was entertainment value listening to Spieth think out loud the way he likes to do under pressure. The way this young Texan talks to his golf ball, the way he chastises himself for bad shots, there can be danger in that with live microphones catching just about everything nowadays, but this observer didn’t detect anything objectionable. Just the opposite. There was almost something Palmer-esque in the way Spieth drew us out there on to the stage with him.

The short game wizardry got Gary Van Sickle's attention:

You had to see these saves to believe them. At the 17th hole in regulation, he missed the green right and found his ball buried in a bad lie in thick rough on a downslope. Spieth went into full super-flop mode and got it on the green, incredible stuff, and made the putt. Then at 18, his drive found a fairway bunker, he hit behind his iron shot, then dropped a nice pitch shot behind the hole and made that clutch putt, too.

The full final round highlights:

Jordan Spieth's winning putt: