If you read the last couple dozen posts, we get two opposite ends of the spectrum. People think he has no personality, and others think he shows too much personality on the course (or the personality he does show, they don't like). Frankly, I'm not sure he can win when no matter what he does, he's going to get criticized for it.
In my mind, he's not much different than Tiger, who was literally the ultimate corporate shill during his career. The guy was in as many advertisements as Peyton Manning. And on course, people thought he was too methodical and robotic early in his career, and then he would get pissed, and people hated it about him too. If we could go back and pull posts from around here during Tiger's peak, you could swap out the names, and the criticisms would be the same.
As far as the golf goes, today's round reminded me of many of Tiger's rounds during his peak. Spieth literally never came close to making bogey today. I used to write about it with Tiger on this site a decade ago. Tiger would always be putting for birdie or eagle, while the rest of the field was having to make a 10 footer to save par every couple holes. Spieth was just like that today. He may not be a great driver of the ball, but for my money, he's the best player in the world from 150 yards in.
The 18th hole was a perfect synopsis of the difference between him and most of the field right now. Walking up to that green, Kuchar had to be thinking if he makes and Jordan misses, they go into tomorrow one shot apart. Spieth knew it too, and when he dropped that putt, it added about 10 feet to Kuchar's putt, and that one shot lead turned into a 3 shot lead. That's the shit Tiger did back in the day. He was in everyone's head, and I think Spieth is slowly putting himself in that same spot. People were in here posting about how great the leaderboard looked when Spieth teed off today because everyone was making a move in the easy conditions, and then he went out and basically put even more distance between himself and everyone else than he had going into today's round. So impressive.
The only question now is whether or not Spieth can finish tournaments off like Tiger did. When Tiger had a 54 hole lead, shit was over. He never, ever blew a lead in a Major after 3 days, until maybe the very end of his career. Spieth has blown leads in a couple majors already. If he comes out tomorrow, and laps the field again like he did today and wins by 4-5 shots, I think it could be the start of a pretty epic run for him. If he blows it like he did at the Masters, then who knows where things go from there. There is certainly plenty of reasons to get up early tomorrow and tune in (or sleep in and DVR it like i'll probably do
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