Jordan Effing Spieth

Dionysus said:
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I was just funnin'.
 
Horn87 said:
Jordan still hasn't found the "IT" that he had a few years ago---shooting 2 over so far today (front 9) in the final round of a major. Hope he does find "IT" again...
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Jordan needs to play more golf. Someone his age doesn't need to set his schedule up around majors. He didn't even have enough tournaments to qualify for the Fed-ex cup last year when he didn't make the cut in one of the events.

Jack, Hogan, Player, and players like that didn't cut their schedule back at age 26.

edit: BTW the wife & I are are huge Jordan fans, have been since he was in HS.
 
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horninchicago said:
Thanks @Dionysus, looks like that worked. Jordan way back on fairway there.
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Such a cute photo.

Like everyone here, I’m a big JS fan. I think that the meltdown at the Masters a few years ago changed the trajectory of his career. I believe the issue is confidence and it remains to be seen if or when he will regain it.
 
dukesteer said:
Such a cute photo.

Like everyone here, I’m a big JS fan. I think that the meltdown at the Masters a few years ago changed the trajectory of his career. I believe the issue is confidence and it remains to be seen if or when he will regain it.
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Meltdown seemed to have caried over some, but then again he did come back with wins. I think that I read somewhere that he had Mono in ‘17 or ‘18 and that could have gotten him off track. Then again, eating the wedding cake has adverse affects on women. Perhaps it can do the same on a man’s golf game.

He is just in a slump and needs to clear the cobwebs and get back that bounce in his step that he had on 13 at The Open (one of the most incredible holes played in golf). He was on a mission.

He is too good not to get back in the “W” column.
 
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Jordan will have to swallow his pride and play in some of the less prestigious tournaments before the start of the 2020 calendar year. He won't make the tour championship starting out with zero FedEx cup points in January. Hopefully, getting married hasn't been one of the factors in his slump.
 
2003TexasGrad said:
Hes got a looooong career ahead of him. I bet he bags a couple more majors yet. I have faith in young Skywalker, errr Spieth.
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You know how it is. His initial success was so explosive. I followed him on his Thursday round at the John Deere in 2013, his first win. Told my wife, let's follow him, he's a Longhorn and will be a superstar.

After he fell off the face of the earth the last few years after that initial success in Majors and other tournaments, it looked like he ay go the way of Anthony Kim.

Glad he seems to have found something. Hopefully he parlays it into top 10s and wins.
 
I am a huge fan but a realist. I thought at the time that his collapse at the 2016 Masters — his deer in the headlights demeanor at the jacket ceremony — could derail his career. Prior to that, he was on a trajectory almost like no other in history...as we all know. And even though he won the 2017 Open, indeed he has not recovered. Now there are signs. I really hope that 2021 is the year that he snaps out of the funk and regains the momentum.

Let me add an obvious observation; that he has a following like no other golfer. The affection — and that’s what it was, affection — that was obvious in the analysis of Saturday’s round was unlike anything I have seen since Arnold Palmer, and that includes Tiger.
 
I volunteered for the Jordan Spieth UnderArmor Junior Golf Tournanent. It is humbling to see how these kids play. There were several college scouts looking for recruits
Jordan was there the last day and made sure he talked with every player And thanked each of us volunteers.
He is just a real and nice guy. I wish him many wins.
 
VYFan said:
Not really; kind of a pathetic bandwagon fan who watches when Tiger Woods is good or Spieth is in the running. Or the Masters or whatever.
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I don't know if you were giving his age in response to the comment about him being in his early 20s or saying he is so young he will start winning again in time.

He probably will, but like in my Anthony Kim example above, this game is mostly mental at that level. If confidence never comes back, they just can fade away.
 
horninchicago said:
I don't know if you were giving his age in response to the comment about him being in his early 20s or saying he is so young he will start winning again in time.

He probably will, but like in my Anthony Kim example above, this game is mostly mental at that level. If confidence never comes back, they just can fade away.
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Yeah, I was just throwing in the specific age since someone said 23-24, not with any emphasis on that being particularly young for old in that sport. (Heck, 27 is a pretty great age to be, from my vantage point!)

I agree with what you are saying. There’s decades of time for him to win dozens of majors if that’s actually the trajectory he goes on. That would be true even if he were already 40. The question is whether he can ever be in that space again at all. My golf friends say he needs to learn to play a different kind of tee shot. I don’t know, but it is true that a technical issue that crops up as errors can seem to the onlooker as a mental thing, when the tennis-server/free throw-shooter/baseball player/gun shooter misses a certain fraction of the time. Sometimes it’s actually technical—your way works 80% of the time, but perfect form works 90% of the time.
 
Vol Horn 4 Life said:
And I thought I was the only one. I find the PGA difficult to watch unless Tiger is playing well.
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Before all the SJW crap made its way to PGA broadcasts, I watched every tournament, all 4 rounds. Golf Channel was on my TV if LHN wasn't. That's all been ruined for me.

I only watch Tiger to hopefully see him fail, but that's a whole other thread. A lot of the young guns are very exciting to watch. IMHO.

But, you have to really love PGA golf to feel that way, and I get totally that most people don't.
 
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