Despite 2010 US Open champion Graeme McDowell sportingly giving him a three hole lead, Spieth still managed to royally screw everything up after a mental breakdown without precedent from someone purporting to be a top-class golfer. The sheer humiliation of making a couple of bogeys on the back 9 will no doubt haunt his dreams for ever more and shake his fragile confidence to such an extent that he is incapable of so much as looking at a golf tee without breaking into a cold sweat.
'A national embarrassment': American media has been harsh but fair on the disgraced ex-star
Whilst some so-called 'experts' may point out that the young debutant was in fact one of the stars of the first two days, and that Europe won by five clear points anyway, anyone with a modicum of golfing knowledge will recognise that his staggering lack of bottle on the final day was clearly the deciding factor in this year's tournament. The catastrophic blow to team morale was never more evident than when Hunter Mahan went in to full Speith mode on 18 and duffed a chip to hand a half point to Justin Rose, who in the immediate aftermath of the event was named World's Nicest Bloke for the twelfth consecutive year.
Elsewhere, in one of the other matches made pretty much irrelevant by Spieth's shameful display, Henrik Stenson was retrospectively awarded the win against obese moron Patrick Reed after the latter was given a 2-hole penalty for generally being an odious human being. The usually stoic Swede, who probably goes to bed cuddling his favoured 3-wood, added that he was 'moderately content' with the European victory and cracked at least a quarter of a smile in the largest display of emotion from a Scandinavian since Sven Goran Eriksson frowned in an interview in 2003.
Meanwhile, the South African cricket team was so impressed by that way Spieth choked that they have commissioned a Spieth family tree in order to explore the possibility of him having any South African heritage.
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