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Zach Johnson has ended Jordan Spieth's stranglehold on major golf tournaments in 2013. Johnson captured the 144th British Open for his second major golf championship.

The 2007 Masters champ bested 2010 British Open champ Louis Oosthuizen and Australian Marc Leishman (LEESH'-muhn) in a four-hole playoff at St Andrews.

Johnson, who describes himself as "a normal guy from Cedar Rapids with a green jacket," rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole that got him into a three-man playoff.

Johnson took control with birdies on the first two playoff holes and earned the win when Oosthuizen missed a five-foot birdie putt on the third hole and a 12-footer for birdie on the last.

The threesome finished regulation 15-under-par, a shot in front of Spieth and Jason Day. Spieth, the winner of the Masters and U.S. Open this year, was tied for the lead with two holes to go. But a bogey on No. 17 doomed his chances to become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win golf's first three majors in the same year.

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