Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee discusses what’s gone wrong for Jordan Spieth, despite his brief time on top of the John Deere Classic leaderboard.
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on Saturday at the John Deere Classic in Illinois we were treated to the rarest of spectacles in golf these days Jordan spe at to the leaderboard now it didn’t last very long but it was pretty exciting when it did he shot eight birdies in his first 12 holes he looked like he was really going to be flirting with a 59 on the day and then the wheels fell off he went on to finish 13 Strokes behind winner Davis Thompson tied for 26th buried deep in the field of the John Deere Classic this has been part of a pattern for spe who really has been struggling to recapture the form that he had back in the 2010s when he won three majors and seemed to be at the top of every leaderboard we have spent so much time focusing on Rory melroy’s struggle to win his next major we’ve kind of lost sight of the fact that it’s been seven years since spe had that memorable win at the Open Championship at Royal burkdale here’s how to put it in perspective Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have both won Majors more recently than Jordan spe who was the one-time Golden Boy former world number one he’s well off that pace now he’s ranked in the 30s in the world rankings and more Troublesome for his own career he’s ranked outside the top 50 in the FedEx Cup rankings which guarantees him entry into all the next year Signature Events now what’s gone wrong a lot of things for one thing is putter which was once his Saving Grace has become merely average his iron play is actually costing him Strokes to the field but overall I think it’s just that golf has gotten so much better that every week there’s someone who can step up whether it’s a long-term professional or whether it’s an amateur that can go and take the Crown away from guys like spe who just have not been able to hang on a long-term basis the spe has had trouble in Majors he missed the cut the Masters and he finished in the 40s at both the PGA Championship and the US Open and he was a non-factor last year at the Ryder Cup he went 02 and two only total one point didn’t have a single win it is a long long way from when he was the darling of America and and he seems to be completely lost at this point now if there is something that you can pin your hopes on if you’re a fan of Jordan spe it’s this his career tends to go in streaks he started out extremely hot went through a dry spell and then won a couple of tournaments in 21 and 22 and was back in the mix now it seems like he’s in a dry spell again he’s got a couple of weeks to get himself tuned up for this year’s Open championship and then he can start looking forward to the majors next year and seeing how he can perform then but at the moment Jordan spe is uh Missing an action
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I think he has lost the feel part of his game. He has become too technical. His short game is suffering, which used to bail him out of situations. I feel that for him, the harder the situation on a shot, the better he executes cause there is all feel and no technique. Citing an example of the 2nd shot on the 18th hole yesterday!