TROON, Scotland – Jordan Spieth has not played as well this year as he did last year. He knows that. Everyone knows that. But that doesn’t mean that he’s playing poorly either.
Spieth has seven top-10 finishes and two victories since the beginning of the year when he went wire-to-wire at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. Sure, the 12th hole blowup in the final round of the Masters will always sting and he hasn’t broke par in each of his last 10 major rounds, but there is still a lot to play for the rest of the year – the PGA Championship, FedEx Cup Playoffs and the Ryder Cup, among others.