Jordan Spieth Proving Again Why He’s Always a Threat to Win a Major

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Published: July 29, 2016

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Jordan Spieth might be the one golfer whose stride says more about how he's playing than his swing.

The 23-year-old Texan was back in form on Friday, brimming with confidence with each step at the PGA Championship as he took aim at claiming the year's final major.

Spieth's three-under score of 67 in the second round vaulted him up the leaderboard while also providing an unerring response to anyone who thinks he's a lesser player now than in 2015, when he captured the Masters and U.S. Open.

That 2015 run, the hottest spurt golf has seen since Tiger Woods was in his prime, naturally maximized expectations to a level that's impossible to maintain in a sport where so much young talent is flourishing.

Coming into the PGA, it was clear that Spieth was tired of the noise and had a good idea of how to silence it.

Spieth admitted to letting minor frustrations get to him and to his game. A big part of his solution, Spieth said at a Tuesday media conference, was to resume walking the walk he was known for while winning his two majors.

"But recently, I've quickened my step," Spieth told reporters. "I've gotten back to kind of the gunslinger, the way that I grew up playing, which is just step up and hit it. I went from over-dissecting shots to really feeling like less is more."

Continuing on that theme, Spieth added: "Golf is a game where you smack it, go up to the next one and smack it again and you count it up at the end. Simplifying things has really been the trend recently. It's really helped me."

Spieth hardly looked like a golfer who needed help as he worked his way around Baltusrol.



The start of his second-day assault was delayed 50 minutes as officials dealt with a waterlogged course. But the wait had no visible effect on Spieth. The confident stride we saw from the Texan while he was winning last year's Masters and U.S. Open was back—and so was ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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