Jordan Spieth
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Jordan Spieth
Jordan Alexander Spiethis an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour, and former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking. He is a two-time major winner and the defending FedEx Cup champion. In April 2016 Time magazine named Spieth to its list of the "100 Most Influential People", noting that he "exemplifies everything that's great about sports."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth27 July 1993
CountryUnited States of America
attain closer feeling hard major playing pun sports work
Having inched closer and accomplished some of my major goals in the sport of golf, no pun intended, why not work as hard as I can to attain those goals if I'm already feeling like I'm playing well and getting more and more comfortable.
align ball blast flat rare sand stance sure underneath
In greenside bunkers, the big thing is to adapt your stance to the shot. It's rare that you get a flat lie in the sand, so I make sure to align my body to the slope. Then I blast the ball out by splashing the sand underneath it.
dad golf college
I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.
learned life whenever
Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.