Best shots, and personal favorite, of majors

Jordan Spieth won the British Open with a flourish at the end. Justin Thomas hit 7-iron that had to be perfect for him to seal his first major at the PGA Championship.

Both wonder if they would have been in position to win on Sunday if not for key shots earlier in the week.

It’s like that just about every year. There is a signature shot from a major, the one that gets replayed more than the others. And there is another shot — or one moment, as was the case for Masters champion Sergio Garcia — that is just as meaningful to them. the hazard .

“Funny enough, most other weeks I would have been thinking, ‘Here we go. What’s going on?”’ Garcia said.

Instead, he was determined to make par. After a drop, he hit a baby hook with the 9-iron down the fairway and was in position from 89 yards to save par.

“The most important thing was that I felt calm throughout the whole thing,” he said. “That calmness gave me confidence. I was like, ‘It’s OK. You’re doing everything right. You’re playing great. It’s your time.”

And it was. 5, No. 14,” he said. “We could hit 3-wood and get to the bunker, but driver was no good because we couldn’t carry it or we had a 20-yard fairway. We actually had to cut this 3-wood up into the wind. We had to take a lot off it. It only wound up 4 yards short of the bunker. We were walking up and I said, ‘I think we can go for that par 5 in two.”’

He put it in the greenside bunker and got up-anddown for birdie.

“That’s probably a moment a normal person wouldn’t think anything of it,” he said.