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Forget laying his career alongside the Woods timeline he's not the next Tiger. With three majors and 11 professional wins before he turns 24 this week, Spieth trails only Rory McIlroy among the current generation of elite players for career wins and majors. In a galaxy of young stars on the PGA Tour, Spieth defined his own solar system.

On Sunday the young Texan made a statement to the golf world and climbed higher on the podium with his Claret Jug.Ĭollapsing early and in danger of total destruction on the 13 th hole, he fashioned perhaps the most historic bogey in Open history and constructed a bipolar finish with three birdies and an eagle in his last five holes. For three days Spieth was a high-definition version of Watson's last major win at Birkdale in 1983. He wins despite the driver, his most challenging club. A knowledgeable friend likened him to a young Tom Watson. He plays at an extraordinary level in a fashion built, not from the tee, but from the fairway. Jordan Spieth is a time warp in the game. That conversation is even more relevant now, because the stage at this moment belongs to the first successful 'pre-Woods-type talent' in the post-Woods era. It's hard to determine just how many golfers Tiger drew to the game, but there's no disputing that today's generation of Tour professionals grew up seeing his power game and used him as their model Open at Erin Hills stretched that course to over 7800 yards each day, and it still became the play toy of winner Brooks Koepka and others. In the 20 years since, an army of Woods bombers has taken over the game, and 'proofing' may be reaching its breaking point. That euphemism meant lengthening courses to try to negate Woods distance advantage. So dominant was Tiger from the teeing ground that the term 'Tiger proofing' soon popped up in golf conversations. It could be argued that the distance revolution began exactly 20 years ago at the 1997 Masters, when Tiger Woods stunned the world with a display of power and finesse rarely seen before. For years, elders in golf have railed against technology that has been promoting length as the most essential skill. Last week, during the Open Championship, rumors circulated that golf's governing bodies were beginning to reconsider the impact distance is having on the game.

Is tiger and spieth playing today 6212018