Emirates Australian Open 2014: Daily Leaderboard Analysis, Highlights and More

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Published: November 27, 2014

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Jordan Spieth produced a wonderful performance on Day 4 of the Australia Open to take home the top prize at the Australian Golf Club in Rosebery.

The 21-year-old was a dark horse coming into the final day of competition, but Sunday's course-record 63 ensured Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott were left by the wayside, along with a host of other top contenders.

Read on for a breakdown of how Spieth's victory unfolded Down Under as the youngster claimed just the second PGA Tour win of his career to date.

Here's how the final leaderboard ended in Sydney's suburbs:

 

Day 4 Recap

Spieth may not have been considered a favourite to emerge as victor among such a stellar cast of players in Rosebery, but an aggregate score of 13-under-par after four days would have one believe otherwise.

That hammering was helped on by some impressive scores on Day 1 and 3 of 67 and 69, respectively, but Sunday's display was in another class from the rest.

The official PGA website's Twitter account confirmed the victory, going on to detail just how far back favourites McIlroy and Scott finished from the 2014 champion:

Spieth was one of only two non-Australians to finish among the top 10, the other being New Zealand's Ryan Fox who tied for seventh, not to mention becoming the first American to win this event since Brad Faxon in 1993.

However, even after achieving the biggest accomplishment thus far in his budding career, the youngster displayed humility in the wake of triumph, quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald's Michael Chammas as saying:

There's been a lot of close calls since the last time I won until now. It would be a lie if I didn't say that it was eating at me a little bit. It's tough when you get so close so many times at big events against world class fields and you're not able to pull it off. I didn't know it was a 63 until I signed the...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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