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Jordan Spieth: Star grounded in normalcy

By Doug FergusonAssociated Press

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The green jacket is all Jordan Spieth needs for an identity. He is the Masters champion.

It’s just not going to help him get rid of a nickname he picked up late last year from a few PGA Tour players that goes against the way he was raised and irritates him more than a three-putt bogey.

Golden Child.

“It was either Colt Knost or Robert Garrigus … I’m not sure who started with the nickname,” Spieth said Tuesday during a break in his New York media tour. “But it’s not nice what I say to them when they say it to me.