TROON, Scotland — Same country, same sort of stage, what with gorse and heather, pot bunkers and wind, bacon baguettes and 9:30 p.m. daylight.
But, oh, how this year’s British Open doesn’t feel like last year’s British Open to Jordan Spieth — and it has nothing to do with the move from the Old Course in St. Andrews to Royal Troon here on the Ayreshire Coast.
No, it has everything to do with present form.
“I’ll be brutally honest with you, it’s not the same feeling I had when I was getting ready for the Open Championship last year,” Spieth said Tuesday, given the opportunity to talk about this week’s golf and not his decision to bypass the Olympics.