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JORDAN SPIETH JUST REMINDED US WHY HE’S THE WORLD’S MOST EXCITING GOLFER

By: Dylan Dethier April 17, 2022
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Jordan Spieth gives his fans a little bit of everything.

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Jordan Spieth says that his wife Annie never comments on his golf. But when he
saw her after Saturday’s third round at the RBC Heritage, she couldn’t help but
offer a simple piece of advice.

“You need to take five seconds, if you miss a putt, before you hit your tap-in.”

The comment came as a direct response to the way in which Spieth’s Saturday
ended: with a missed one-footer on the 18th green. The subtext of Annie’s advice
was clear: Her husband might be an even better golfer if he wasn’t so damn
thrilling to watch.



If this weekend in Hilton Head proved anything, it’s that when Spieth is
anywhere near contention, golf fans need to get near a television. The RBC falls
directly in the Masters hangover zone; we couldn’t possibly have been expected
to care about another golf tournament just a week after Augusta wrapped. But we
tuned in anyway because it’s Jordan Spieth, because we’ve watched him grow up on
the PGA Tour, because we’ve seen him go from phenom to struggling artist to
family man to reinvented golfer, all before the age of 29.

It’s a testament to the Jordan Spieth Experience that golf fans enthusiastically
re-boarded the PGA Tour carousel, but reboard we did. And those of us tuning
into the action from Harbour Town were rewarded with a thrilling Sunday in which
a dozen or more players had a chance to win coming down the stretch. We saw
strange penalties, chip shots into the water, crucial made and missed putts,
rallies and meltdowns. It was an exciting day with exciting twists and turns,
and the golfer left standing at the end was the most exciting of all.

How did Spieth explain his final-round 66? One reporter suggested it was an
“unbelievable rollercoaster.” Spieth shrugged that off.

“It felt like a round of golf,” he said matter-of-factly. “It felt like a Sunday
on the PGA Tour.”

Not all rounds of golf are created equal. And no other golfer is created like
Jordan Spieth. His Sunday featured two eagles in his first five holes, a
must-make 10-footer for birdie on 18 and a clutch up-and-down from the bunker in
a playoff. His ability to present that as just another day at the office reminds
us: Spieth is used to getting wild.

That’s his way, after all. Impossible shots look easy. Easy shots look
impossible. It’s never boring, and it’s never simple, and the moment you think
you’ve figured out how his tournament is going to go is typically followed
quickly by the moment you realize you’re wrong.

Spieth entered Sunday at the RBC in a state of deep frustration.

He was upset about missing his first career cut at Augusta National, where he’d
been nearly invincible, logging five top-threes in eight starts before this.

“I hated it. It was the worst feeling. It was the worst feeling as a golfer that
I can remember,” he recalled on Sunday. “It’s my favorite tournament in the
world, and I just love contending at that event. I was hitting it really, really
well and honestly just didn’t feel like I deserved to miss that cut. I felt like
I hit shots right where I wanted to and ended up somehow at 6 over.”

Spieth was frustrated, too, about the way he’d finished Saturday, with that
missed shortie at 18. His frustration began the moment the ball lipped out,
leaving him shell-shocked in front of the entire crowd. It continued through the
night.

“Even this morning, I was kicking myself. I thought about it all night. Just
like — how am I going to get that back?”

He got it back by being Jordan Spieth.

That meant a chip-in for eagle at No. 2. It meant a 25-footer for another eagle
at No. 5. It meant a birdie at No. 8 to get into serious contention. And it
meant a miss from inside four feet for par at No. 9, followed by a missed
five-footer at No. 11, just to make you feel silly for get invested. That’s one
of the funny things about this version of Spieth: The ball-striking has returned
but the putter has gone balky. He was the best golfer in the field from tee to
green. Once he got onto the green, he was one of the worst, losing 2.5 strokes
putting.

The way he played the 18th hole on Saturday and the way he played the 18th hole
Sunday, taken together, tell you something about the Spieth Experience. Each day
he hit his approach to just outside of 10 feet. On Saturday what happened next
was a shocking three-putt bogey. On Sunday Spieth coolly buried the putt in the
center to post the clubhouse lead, forcing the rest of the field to come catch
him. They didn’t.



That’s Spieth. The good, the bad and the ugly. The thrilling, the shocking, the
sense of anticipation. (You get the director’s-cut commentary, too — caddie
Michael Greller may be the hardest-working caddie and best listener on Tour. No
wonder he forgot his bib for the playoff.)

The fact that Spieth’s wife Annie and their baby son Sammy were there to greet
him on the 18th green was a reminder that times have changed. Spieth credited
Sammy with being a champion sleeper and with being a good hang in the mornings
pre-round.

“It just takes your mind off of things and puts it where it should be, which is
in the moment of hanging out. I really, really enjoyed that.”

That’s one of Spieth’s secrets: He gets fully invested in the moment. It means
he makes a verbal pros-and-cons list before every shot. It means he makes every
swing with intentionality. It means he makes a mess and then cleans it up, and
if he can’t clean it up it’s because he’s tried so hard that he’s actually made
it worse. It means he makes every shot count.

At least, as long as he remembers to take five seconds.

But if he always remembered to play it cool, he wouldn’t be Jordan Spieth. If
there were no missed tap-ins or ill-advised hook stingers from the woods, he
wouldn’t be Jordan Spieth. There wouldn’t necessarily be a lineup of kids
waiting for him as he exited his winner’s press conference. And this latest win
wouldn’t mean quite as much for the golf world. But this is Jordan Spieth, so it
does.

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OFF COURSE WITH CLAUDE HARMON: THE MOST STRIKING FEATURE OF JORDAN SPIETH’S GAME

Cameron McCormick met Jordan Spieth when he was 12 years old. On this week’s
episode of Off Course, he describes what struck him the most as he watched those
first few swings.


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Dylan Dethier is a senior writer for GOLF Magazine/GOLF.com. The Williamstown,
Mass. native joined GOLF in 2017 after two years scuffling on the mini-tours.
Dethier is a 2014 graduate of Williams College, where he majored in English, and
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