His 262 was one-shot off of the tour record of 31-under by Els in 2003.
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Spieth shot a closing round 6-under 67 for an eight-shot victory over fellow American and defending champion Patrick Reed.
“The expectations after the Masters past year, definitely more so after the US Open; obviously there were the questions about the grand slam”.
“I felt like it was short, three-week break and continue what we were doing past year”, the athlete said.
21-year-old Jordan Spieth became the second-youngest player to win at Augusta, behind only Woods’ 1997 effort, and just the fifth man to lead the prestigious tournament from start to finish.
Jordan Spieth might be accomplishing Tiger Woods-like feats, but that doesn’t mean he’s ready to be compared to the 14-time major victor.
He added: “We (he and caddie Michael Greller) are very excited about where we’re at the start to our career as a team. He’s not going to shoot over par, especially the way he’s playing now”. I don’t do it to talk back to any the players or people that believe that it’s not possible, that I got a lucky year or something.
Having backed Spieth and Patrick Reed after the first round, I never really had anything to worry about in Hawaii, so it’s been a great start to the year but not backing Reed in the Without Spieth market yesterday at around 6/4 turned out to be a mistake. What Tiger has done, I can’t imagine ever being done. “Trying to get to 30 would be a fantastic number to set for tomorrow”. “I don’t think it’s right for me to sit here and say that I felt like parts weren’t quite ready because 30-under is, you know, spectacular, and I don;t know how I could scored much lower”, Spieth said.
Spieth is uncomfortable with comparisons with Woods, though he bought into one philosophy going into the final round. Koepka closed with a 71 and tied Brandt Snedeker for third (67). After winning five tournaments last season, Spieth picked up where he left off and is showing no signs of slowing down in 2016. He led the tournament in strokes-gained putting, strokes-gained tee-to-green, putting average, par-4 scoring, par-5 scoring and birdies-eagles. He also finished runner-up at the PGA Championship and fourth at the British Open.
Koepka had his best score on the PGA Tour and still shaved only two shots of his deficit, though he at least has one more day.
Spieth finished with seven birdies and one bogey – at the par-three eighth – en route to collecting $1.18 million in prize money.
Day ended his tournament on a high after struggling in the first two rounds as he carded an eight-under-par 65, which saw him shoot up 10 places on the leaderboard.
Meanwhile, Watson struggled to find his feet on the front nine as he made two birdies and a bogey.
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Spieth had a seven-shot lead at the Hero World Challenge to end his 2014 season at Isleworth and won by 10 shots.
