PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Just one year ago, when then 21-year-old Jordan Spieth pulled into the parking lot at Innisbrook Resort for the Valspar Championship, he was coming off a winless 2014 on the PGA Tour and had but one title to his name.
Unknown? Hardly. He was a talented kid on the way, showing something in December with victories at the venerable Australian Open and at Tiger Woods’ unofficial Hero World Challenge event 90 minutes down I-4 in Orlando. But his stock had yet to fully spike, and not even Spieth knew what a a dirt-tough closer he could become.