Spieth uncomfortable on comparison with Woods

In between the Spieth family vacation at the Kapalua Resort last week, Jordan Spieth, the world’s No. 1 ranked golfer, picked up his seventh PGA Tour win and crushed the winner’s-only field at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.

Jordan Spieth of the U.S. holds the trophy after winning Tournament of Champions at Kapalua Plantation Course in Hawaii on Sunday.

It was only the second time in PGA Tour history that a player has recorded 30 under par or better in a 72-hole event, one shot shy of South African Ernie Els’ record score on the same course in 2003.

Spieth, who won the first two majors of 2015, is coming off of a superstar making season.

However, Spieth commanded the spotlight at Kapalua in champion fashion as he eased to his sixth victory on the PGA Tour in his last 21 starts. I know what he did and I just find it hard to believe that it can be matched. Spieth, playing smart with a big lead on the back nine, finished at 30-under 262. Woods won his seventh PGA Tour event in his 38th start, and he had 18 wins in his first 77 tournaments. The job of catching Spieth appeared all but impossible at the start of the day, and Reed was unable to muster the miracle round that would have seen him challenge the world number one.

Despite the overwhelming evidence, Spieth does not feel comfortable being compared to the 14-time major victor. Reed and Spieth sat first and second after round one and if Koepka hadn’t shot that sensational 63 on Saturday, the pair would have been first and second throughout.

“I tell you what, you can’t make a lot of mistakes”, Snedeker said. “We’re getting close, just need to keep putting the foot down and get one here soon”. It’s impressive to watch, it really is. I don’t do it to talk back to any the players or people that believe that it’s not possible, that I got a lucky year or something.

Reed, the defending champion at Kapalua, got within 3 shots with a birdie on the par-5 ninth.

Patrick Reed did his best to chase down Spieth starting his round with back-to-back birdies. Well, sure, he played the best golf and he was the strongest mentally. He eventually went on reach 30-under-par and to beat Patrick Reed by fully eight strokes and Rory McIlroy and Jason Day et al are going to have to produce stratospheric golf in 2016 if they’re going to nudge Jordan off his lofty perch. “I just think it (the comparison) is premature”, noted Spieth with a sense of calm reason that is often missing in a rapid fire era of anointments and coronations. “Everybody has their own swing that is personal to them and the secret to teaching is you don’t want to take away what someone does naturally and I think Cameron and Jordan have done that beautifully”. The next time I saw a board, it was back to five.