Jordan Spieth reacts to "DISRESPECTFUL" question about PGA Tour career

Jordan Spieth was asked an interesting question about missing putts from short range during the PGA Tour's Sentry Tournament of Champions.

Ben Smith

08 Jan 2023

Jordan Spieth reacts to "DISRESPECTFUL" question about PGA Tour career

Jordan Spieth will never stop doing Jordan Spieth things.

We are only a few days into 2023 and we've already had a few moments that will surely go down as highlights for Spieth by the end of the year.

First we had Spieth bantering with these two gambling fans during the PGA Tour's Sentry Tournament of Champions.

Spieth followed that by holing a remarkable shot on hole 16 from the rough at the Plantation Course in Kapalua.

Oh, and we've also had the popular PGA Tour pro missing putts from short range.

It has been a familiar sight over the years. We've lost count of the number of times Spieth has gone to tidy up a par and inexplicably missed.

When Spieth won the RBC Heritage, he revealed his wife Annie gave him some important advice that helped him claim his 13th victory.

But this week Spieth has already missed a putt from 18 inches.

A reporter decided to ask Spieth about this and, well, his response was fairly interesting.

Here's the full exchange:

Q. Can you bear with me on the disrespect I'm about to show you on this question, but when you miss two foot putts does it bother you that much or have you done it so much in your career that you're kind of used to it?

Spieth said:

"No, I think that, like out here you get quite a few inside of five feet I think that you'll miss more here than other places just on under reading and under hitting it with not enough speed.

"So I missed one yesterday where I just rushed it. And then today I missed like a 3-footer where I actually hit, I like over trusted it. I was like, I know that this putt is a left edge putt, which is unusual from three feet for us, and it has to have speed and I just ripped it right through off the left lip.

"So if I hit a really bad, tentative stroke on it, then it really pisses me off. But when I put a good stroke on it it's like, all right, I can move on. And today that was the case."

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Fair enough then!

Let's watch that Spieth shot from earlier in the week:

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Spieth described this as a "freedom shot".

He added:

"That was, I don't know where it ranks for me, but it was up there in the top 10 difficulty and I guess top 10 cool shot for me, maybe, that I've hit, just the full flop with the fluffy rough and the green running away from you.

"It's just one of those that you just have to be okay if it, you have to just, it's a freedom shot.

"You just have to be okay if it's four feet in front of you and 40 yards past the pin and just trust that it's going to do what you think it's going to do.

"The weird part was my foot was in the bunker, so the stance was really odd.

"I was just lopsided. So that could have made me chunk it so bad I bounce, like it crossed my mind I could hit so far behind it, it could bounce over the ball. So I tried to just kind of stay on top of it and put a lot of speed into it."

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