Zach Johnson won his second career major title Monday by defeating Louis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman in a four-hole playoff at St. Andrews. Here are some key stats provided by Golf Channel’s editorial research unit.
• Sixth Open Championship playoff at St. Andrews (first since 1995)
• No other Open venue has hosted more than three playoffs (Carnoustie)
• First playoff at The Open since 2009; first with more than two players since 2002
• First playoff in a major since 2013 Masters (Adam Scott def. Angel Cabrera)
• Zach Johnson: Second career major championship (2007 Masters)
• Sixth to win major at both Augusta and St. Andrews in career
• Other five: Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros, Sam Snead
• 12th career PGA Tour victory; 11th since beginning of 2007
• Only four players last 10 seasons have 10+ PGA Tour wins including multiple majors
• Others are Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson & Rory McIlroy
• Fourth consecutive season with PGA Tour victory (first this year)
• Top-10 finish for third time in last four years at Open Championship
• 13 under in the Open since 2012 (was 50 over par from 2004-2011)
• 12 straight rounds of par or better overall
• Combined 46 under in those 12 rounds of competition
• Final round 66; lowest of career in a major championship
• 66 is lowest final round score by Open Champion at St. Andrews
• Louis Oosthuizen: Runner-up finish in both U.S. Open and Open Championship
• Fourth player to do that in same season in modern era (Rickie Fowler, Ernie Els, Nicklaus)
• Fourth player to lose playoffs in both Masters and Open Championship (Tom Watson, Greg Norman and Craig Wood
• Combined 26 under in last seven regulation rounds in majors
• Marc Leishman: Defeated in aggregate 4-hole playoff
• Third career top-5 finish in majors (2013 Masters, 2014 Open Champ.)
• First career runner-up finish in a major championship
• 130 strokes over last two rounds (ties 36-hole record in any major)
• T-50 through 36 holes this week
• Would have been largest 36-hole comeback (position) by major champion
• Jordan Spieth: Bogey at 17th hole; finished one shot out of playoff
• Fourth player to win Masters, win U.S. Open then finish top-10 in Open (Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan)
• ‘Bounced back’ six of nine times this week (did not on 72nd hole)
• Combined 37 under in majors this season (second-best total last 20 years)
• Only better single-season score in that span is Tiger in 2000 (53 under)
• Made one birdie over last eight holes of tournament
• Combined 37 under in majors in 2015 (14 shots better than anyone else)
• Jason Day: Had share of 54-hole lead in both U.S. Open and Open Championship
• Only player to do that in same season and win neither tournament
• T-4; missed birdie putt on 72nd hole to make playoff
• Sixth top-5 finish in majors, only Adam Scott has more since 2011 (seven)
• Now has top-10 finish in all four majors (zero career wins)
• Jordan Niebrugge (a): First amateur to finish top-10 in Open at St. Andrews since 1960
• Ollie Schniederjans (a): 67; lowest final round by amateur in Open at St. Andrews
• Five amateurs made cut; most in Open Championship since 1960
• Niebrugge, Schniederjans and Chesters recorded three lowest Open scores ever by amateurs
