Jordan Spieth’s Masters Title Cements New Era: Rory McIlroy Has Found His Rival

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Published: April 13, 2015

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April 12, 2015. Write down that date. It marks the beginning of a new era for golf, a day when the sport turned 21 all over again.

Not since Tiger Woods seized control of Augusta National at that age in 1997 has golf had a surge of youthful excitement like the one 21-year-old Jordan Spieth provided Sunday.

Spieth is the second-youngest Masters winner and only the fifth wire-to-wire winner. He also tied for the lowest four-round score in the tournament's 79-year history.

Great accomplishments, but there’s so much more to come.

What Spieth did Sunday was launch golf into a new age, one that’s guaranteed to see this University of Texas product lock longhorns with golf’s other notoriously gifted youngster, Rory McIlroy.

Together, they may write an even more compelling chapter of golf history than the one Tiger has authored.

The one downside to Woods’ dominance has been that he’s never truly had a rival, a near-equal who could threaten his monopoly on the majors. He never had someone to play Joe Frazier to his Muhammad Ali. 

Phil Mickelson made a game run at standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Tiger, but with five majors to Tiger’s 14, they never really spun in the same orbit.

Spieth has demonstrated he’s ready to go eye-to-eye with McIlroy in any event, and he'll take his chances on not blinking first.



McIlroy is a little more than four years older than Spieth, so their best days figure to intersect often in a sport where an athlete’s prime can last two decades.

McIlroy earned his reputation as the world’s greatest young golfer by winning a major on his 10th try, at 22. Spieth needed only eight, and he got there a year sooner.

Both had to botch a major before they could win one. But when Spieth bobbled away the 2014 Masters to Bubba Watson, he still finished tied fo...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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