Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Spieth said the enduring hunger and consistency of Federer, Djokovic and other leading lights of men s tennis was an inspiration as he plots his own career path. There are 25 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Rankings teeing it up in Thursday’s first round. His track record at Northern Trust Open is a 4 place finish in 2012 and back to back 2 place finishes and fingers crossed he can get the win this year. Donald is starting to show some flashes of his old brilliance, but its just that, flashes.
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In 2012, he helped Texas win the NCAA championship at Riviera. So I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the putting green the last couple of days, just trying to sort of get comfortable with them. “And it’s a real treat when you come to a golf course like this where it’s not overly long, you don’t have to really bomb it off the tee, but it’s real strategic”. When he won the Match Play past year, he told about a ritual of going to the Official World Golf Ranking website to see the size of his lead at No. 1. And it’s played on just one course.
Rory McIlroy shrugged off concerns about his fitness regime Wednesday as he prepared to tee off on American soil for the first time this year at the Northern Trust Open. The competition here has been great in past years and some big golfers have etched their names in the trophy over the past decade. We don’t play golf courses like this very often anymore on tour. With nearly $2K separating McIlroy and Spieth from the rest of the pack, we feel much more comfortable rolling with Matsuyama, who is the fourth highest priced option on the board behind McIlroy, Spieth and Dustin Johnson.
Jordan Spieth – last week’s T-21 was Spieth’s first finish outside the top 10 since the BMW Championship last September.
“All the sacrifices that I’ve made, all the time, the sweat and spending time away from family, the financial investments that I’ve made, makes it all worth it in the end”.
“I think this is one of the greatest golf courses in the world”.
Opportunities to see the best player in any sport performing, up close, with few spectators, presented itself on Monday at the Riviera Country Club, where Jordan Spieth participated in the Collegiate Challenge. “Yeah, it would be pretty awesome”.
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Spieth faltered late as James Hahn triumphed in a three-way play-off at last year’s PGA Tour event. “I saw that Jason overtook me last week”, he said. “My confidence in my entire game, when pressure comes on, I can now really relate and look back to a lot of key moments where I’ve hit shots in the past when the pressure has been on where I felt like I did what I wanted to do”.
