Will Jordan Spieth win in 2024? He came up just short at the Sentry to begin the PGA Tour season
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Jordan spe that goes to you KP a solo third eight under 65 he goes out in 32 makes birdies on 10 and 11 14 and 15 hits a wayward drive at 16 into the Fairway bunker that plugs underneath the lip he has to just extract it sideways
He makes bogey there and that really derailed his momentum but another good week around kaaloa for Jordan Speed yeah a couple things but first uh to to close the loop on the on the blade collar got word from from the property it is a blade CER wow wow
Here’s a different here’s a different angle um there a second shooter well done Patrick I was I was told uh it looks different because the back is a different color but it’s uh it’s slightly raised but definitely does not have a color I’m catching L’s all over the place today
Yeah same here tough tough way to start the year good job uh spe was uh spe was very spey I mean it was five straight birdies and then I mean not only did he have the plug lion 16 but he had the whole I think it
Was 10 11 was it 14 or 13 where his ball was next to uh Harris englishes and he had to redrop in a divot uh the whole thing was just if you if you said hey who do you think got a plugged lie in a bunker and had to uh
Move his ball and then redrop in a divot and also made three five nine birdies on the day I mean if it’s not sah it’s it’s Jordan Speed so all in all uh good week I wouldn’t call it a great week Rick he didn’t he putted it awesome right like
He made he made a lot of putts on Sunday yeah here’s the what a what a mess did Kyle did you hear what he said to the rules official during that I did not the guy whoever it was was like yeah that looks uh pretty similar to what it was
And he he said like under his breath he goes yeah especially the part where it’s three inches under ground if my name was Patrick Reed maybe I would um I thought it was an encouraging week but I’m not I’m not uh we’re not putting jacket number four or whatever
He’s on uh on layaway quite yet I I don’t I don’t think he he kind of Saved himself with the putter which is not it’s good it’s good for this week he scored well all that but it it it I I’m still I don’t know I’m still a little
Wary about like what the trajectory is for this season sunj M goes to you Patrick 25 under par a 10 under 63 which was a 10 shot Improvement on Sunday from his Saturday round and he also set the record for most birdies in a 72 whole PGA Tour event he made 34 of
Them didn’t win so obviously there were some Bogies and other things out there seven Bogies and a double clean that up he runs away with this thing by a million shots imagine making 34 birdies in a tournament and not even sniffing the trophy I mean it was a great finish
Obviously but he never really had a chance to win this tournament I I think he will eventually win at this golf course you see so much similarity to the leaderboards at Augusta National where he’s played well he’s played well here a ton as well and so I think we talk about
All these guys who haven’t won in a long time Klay spe Xander not a long time but over the past year sunjay kind of flew in under under the radar there in 200 23 and uh hopefully this is a sign of him gearing up for a big 2024 I want to pick
Him for one and done next year already at capalo okay and I also think he’s I think he’s Patrick maybe the most underrated player in the world him and Russell Henley sure but I mean very underrated I totally agree and he’s what 25 no is he that old already yeah he’s 25
Tour for nine years March 30th 1998 on tour for nine years Perry Ellis yeah Mark gets colum morow bookend 65s on the week 67 and 70 in between the good news for Colin is that he was seventh in Strokes gained off the te and first in Strokes gained
Approach he is that Elite ball Striker that we have known that he is that that is back it’s 2024 is the year of colum um I can go there I know I’d been critical last year in 23 where I felt like just the way the ball was being
Struck I felt like the numbers were belaying just the quality of The Hitting and you could see was working very hard on the thing all of the time and there was a lot of time taken between shots and turns out then he and his longtime coach I mean lifelong Coach Rick cessing
House they break up um over the Christmas vacation but he just looks a whole lot more decisive to me the little bit I saw of him play the golf swing’s the same I feel like the Cadence is gorgeous the ball striking is there I I I’m enjoying the um the counterbalance
Look in the putter it looks to me like he’s swinging that with a whole lot more freedom and for me that that’s kind of always the the separator with Colin you know even if he’s off he’s going to give himself looks and it’s just just a
Question of um of converting those so I thought it was a great start to the season um I feel like he’s probably going to build on this stuff and and and there’s a win on the horizon of that I have no doubt I’d just like to see
Though that that Under Pressure um that he stays because you know it’s easy when you’re kind of chasing to kind of aim and fire a little bit I want to see him with a lead or close to the lead come Sunday afternoon if he’s still as
Decisive because if he is that’s how he used to be back in 20 in those years when he was winning major championships if he’s that way inclined I feel like it’ll be a great season for him Scotty sheffler with a Sunday 66 out in 33 in in 33 KP looking at his putting
Numbers first two rounds very good he gained two and a half Strokes with the flat stick his final two rounds Saturday and Sunday he lost those two and a half back plus another half a stroke anything new and interesting to say or is this just more of the same same New Year same
Story finished first Tia green and 44th in putting I mean he’s Ricky the last 25 tournaments he’s played dating back to November of 2022 he’s he’s lost 141 guys total over 25 tournaments that’s he’s averaging like a fifth place finish over like 25 straight tournaments no Cuts missed one finish outside the top
25 I don’t I don’t know I I don’t I don’t know what to do with that like I’m I’m almost I’ve I’ve almost like every time he plays I’m like he could win six tournaments in a row but then I started thinking about it and and it’s like I
Think this might just be like who he is I’m curious where you’re at with Sheffer I don’t know anymore I I remain very optimistic just because the the you know three quarters of the game Tia green is so much better than everybody else and we get these spurts I mean Thursday and Friday I was ready to hand him six seven eight
Trophies this year but then he burns a couple of edges I also think that he and and kizner made this uh and the stats this out ker kar’s a low-key stack guy by the way he made a couple of comments that were like I love this guy
Um it it he gives himself so many more of those eight to 15 Footers than everybody else does and he’s so he’s missing more than everybody else not because he’s just because his rate is lower and because of the volume that he’s taking that I’m just I’m stunned it
Does it has not leaked into maybe it has we just don’t know about it that it has not leaked into kind of the rest of his game but I I remain incredibly optimistic I like that he has um I mean remember Kyle there was a long time
Where he was first in t green last in putting and wasn’t trying anything new I I’m at least optimistic about new putter new grip new putting coach work being put in that I’m at least optimistic about that Rick if I might real fast just on that I think he and Phil Kenyan
Have done a marvelous job on just the shape of the stroke the quality of the strike with the putter to me I think the only thing where he and Ted Scott were tripped up on was they misread a lot of butts I mean that look green reading is
A skill and it’s a part of good putting but I feel like if you start to get Scotty at a place like Phoenix where as greens are true true the way he’s rolling it right now watch out I you can put me on the record I’m I’m I’m excited
I think it’s open season for sheffler when he gets on green a little easier to read
