The long PGA Tour season came to a fitting end yesterday as Jordan Spieth capped off his amazing year with a win at the Tour Championship.
Spieth out played and out putted an over matched Henrik Stenson on Bobby Jones’ East Lake course to finish off the FedEx Cup Playoffs with his fifth win of the season.
This has been the “Season of Jordan” as the twenty-two year old has captivated us all season by first winning The Masters and then chasing the Grand Slam.
Spieth started the day with a one shot lead over Stenson and ground out a one under 69 to top the frustrated Swede. Stenson finished T2, four strokes back with Justin Rose and Danny Lee.
Spieth’s finish in the Playoffs was quite different from his start. He missed the cut at the first two events, The Barclays and The Deutsche Bank and it appeared that the stress of his ’15 campaign had worn him out.
He found his game again at the BMW with a T13 finish and came into the Tour Championship playing like he had all summer.
He credits a change he made in his putting routine this week that got him putting like he had when he was racking
up those wins. He said he started aligning the line on the ball with his line on “non-feel” putts. “What this line did, it allowed me to find a good spot right in front of the ball where I can look at to roll it over,” Spieth said. “It was key.”
It certainly worked as he lead this elite field in strokes gained putting and earned him the FedEx Cup and the ten million dollar bonus.
The line on Spieth’s 2015 season is truly awe-inspiring. In 25 PGA Tour events he captured five victories, four seconds, one third, fifteen top tens, nineteen top twenty-fives and over twelve million dollars in on course earnings.
His major championship performance constitutes one of the great seasons in the history of the game: a win at The Masters, a win at The U.S. Open, a tie for fourth at The Open Championship (just missing the playoff) and a second place at The PGA Championship.
And just for good measure he moves back to the number one spot in the Official World Golf Rankings and gets to cash a $10,000,000 check as the FedEx Cup Champion.
It was one hell of a season for Jordan Spieth and this is a kid who is just getting started.
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