Jordan Spieth’s ‘Sad Announcement’ about state of his game this season, See fans reaction
On paper, Jordan Spieth’s season has appeared unremarkable: two top-10s in six starts, 33rd in the FedEx Cup standings, shaky into the greens (118th in SG: Approaches) but stellar on them (9th in SG: Putting). Of course, statistics only tell you so much, and this is especially true in the case of Spieth’s 2024, which upon closer inspection reveals a high frequency of unusual happenings, even by Spieth’s exceedingly high unusual-happenings standards.
He began his season at The Sentry, in Maui, where it didn’t take long for the weirdness to ensue. In the Wednesday pro-am, Spieth cracked his gamer driver, leaving him scrambling to find a replacement. After hitting just 17 of 30 of Kapulua’s generous fairways in the first two rounds, Spieth was still tinkering with substitute drivers. But his accuracy that week did not improve — all in, he hit just half the fairways, which ranked nearly last in the field. Still, in classic Spieth fashion, the rest of his game was sound enough that he found himself in the mix on Sunday, which is when things got screwy again. On 15, after his drive nestled up to partner Harris English’s ball, Spieth was required to move his ball, watch English play and then place his ball back in English’s divot hole. Then came a fried-egg lie on 16, followed on 17 by another drive into a divot hole. Spieth ultimately finished two back of winner Chris Kirk.
Spieth didn’t play again until early February when he tied for 39th in the rain-shortened, 54-hole AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (a strange week for everyone!), and a week later tied for sixth at a chaotic WM Phoenix Open. The TPC Scottsdale event has long drawn huge and rowdy galleries but this year the environment was especially charged, with several players, Spieth among them, having to police the crowds. On Sunday, after a fan yelled in Spieth’s backswing on the 18th hole, Spieth tossed his iron and mouthed, “What the f—.”
