Compton got into this championship using the same fighting qualities he showed on Sunday, surviving a five-way play-off in sectional qualifying. His history as a survivor is well documented and a ‘never-give-up-attitude’ to life and golf gave him a chance - outside as it was - of a Cinderella Story.
"Seemed like people really got around my story.” Compton continued, “and for me to be here and to do this at such a high level is just as good of a feeling as winning a golf tournament. So it's just a great feeling. I can't wait to get back into another major."
He won’t be waiting long as the 34-year-old’s finish in this, just his second major will guarantee him a start in at least a few more.
The pre-championship talk of a grand slam of majors for Phil Mickelson was not to be, as the 1999 runner-up to Stewart battled to a distant seven-over par total, while world number one Adam Scott was up and down during the championship with a pair of 73s, blotting his copybook.
A closing 69 to finish at two-over gave the Australian his eighth top-10 in his last fourteen majors, while his World Cup and WGC Match Play-winning compatriot Jason Day impressed yet again at America’s national championship, finishing one better than Scott in a tie for fourth.
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