Local Golf Report: Don't feel too sorry for Jordan Spieth

Man, golf can be riveting — at least for golf junkies like myself. Even without Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy as major players, this golf season has certainly been riveting, especially for me.

Just a month after I covered the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, I was equally as captivated by last week’s Open Championship, held at the home of golf, St. Andrews. And though I had to settle for being captivated by staying up all night and watching from my couch, it was thrilling just the same and, once again, I had a personal connection to the event, as one of my distant relatives, and a gre...