Bleacher Report: Jordan Spieth's Swagger Shows He's Ready for the Record Books at British Open

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — The confidence is subtle, demonstrated, not shouted. Yet there's no question Jordan Spieth has a belief that he can do what Ben Hogan did and what neither Arnold Palmer nor Jack Nicklaus could: win the first three golfing majors of the year.

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Bleacher Report: Are Jordan Spieth's Chances to Make History at 2015 British Open Still Alive?

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — His strength is putting. He said so himself. But with the second round of the British Open full of rain, wind and a tiny bit of controversy, Jordan Spieth may have three-putted his way out of a chance for history.

Eight times over 18 holes that took two days and arguably may have taken Spieth out of his quest for golf’s Grand Slam — although he disagrees—Spieth needed three putts to get the ball into the hole.

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S.F. Examiner: A single stroll at St. Andrews still sends tingles

By Art Spander
San Francisco Examiner

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — An hour’s drive north of Edinburgh, across the Firth of Forth, in the county of Fife, is golf’s holy land, Churchill Downs, Fenway Park and the Rose Bowl all rolled up in a bowl of haggis, the Scottish national dish.

In a region where “new” translates as something constructed in 1898, the “Old Course,” at St. Andrews, is appropriately named. The game of golf, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, has been played on the rolling links for nearly 600 years.

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Bleacher Report: Simplicity the Key to Jordan Spieth Staying Hot in St. Andrews Debut

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Golf can be remarkably simple. Hit the ball, find it and hit it again. Golf can also be terribly complex when there’s too much thinking, too much listening to others than to oneself. Jordan Spieth came to that understanding long ago.

Spieth is the best golfer in the world right now, not so much by marching to his own drummer as ignoring the irregular rat-a-tat of others. He’s 21 going on 35, wonderfully skilled — isn’t there a line that says talent trumps experience? — and supremely confident.

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S.F. Examiner: Leaving us Spieth-less: Phenom halfway to historic Grand Slam

By Art Spander
San Francisco Examiner

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — The adage is you don’t win a U.S. Open, it wins you. That after the yanked tee shots and missed putts, after the lead slips through the hands of one golfer to another’s like fool’s gold, there’s someone standing as much in bewilderment as elation when he’s handed the trophy.

On a beautiful mid-summer’s day, on a course as reviled as it was admired — tattered and battered Chambers Bay — that someone was the best young player in America and maybe the world, Jordan Spieth.

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