Jordan Spieth left no doubt, if there even was one, that he owned this season on the PGA Tour.
The 22-year Spieth closed with a 2-under-par 68 to win the Tour Championship by four strokes over Henrik Stenson of Sweden, Justin Rose of England and Danny Lee of New Zealand while claiming the FedEx Cup at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
“This is incredible,” said the 22-year-old Spieth, who won for the fifth time this season, including the Masters and U.S. Open. “I didn’t have a good start to the playoffs, missing two cuts for the first time, and watched Jason Day dominate.
“But I put my head down and knew I could still come here and peak this week. … This year has been unreal. I don’t know how we can sit down and figure out how to improve on this, but we’re going to try to do that.”
Spieth earned the $10-million bonus that goes to the winner of the FedEx Cup and also unseated Day, who had won four of his last six tournaments and five in all this year, as the No. 1 player in the World Golf Rankings.
Day, Stenson, Rickie Fowler and Bubba Watson were the others in the top five of the point standings who could have captured the FedEx Cup with a victory in the Tour Championship.
Stenson, the 2013 FedEx Cup champion who led after the first two rounds in a bid to join Tiger Woods as the only two-time winners of the Cup, sank a 57-foot birdie putt on the last hole to finish a second straight 72 and tie with Rose, who carded a 66, and Lee, who posted a 65.
Dustin Johnson posted a 64 that was the low round of the day to wind up five shots back in a tie for fifth with Watson, who had a 67, and Paul Casey of England, who wound up at 70.
Zach Johnson, who won the Open Championship at St. Andrews, totaled 70 and was another shot behind in a tie for eighth with J.B. Holmes, who shot 69, while Day finished at 68 to wind up seven shots down in a tie for 10th with Matt Kuchar, who also had a 68.
Fowler, of Murrieta, struggled to a 74 and tied for 12th, while Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland also had a 67 to tie for 16th.
