Jordan Spieth Excited After Matching Tiger Woods PGA Tour Records

Jordan Spieth celebrates after putting for birdie to go 30 under at the Tournament of Champions in Lahaina, Hawaii.

The world No. 1 picked up right where he left off previous year and is well on his way to matching, if not exceeding, Woods’ remarkable feats.

While the PGA Tour recognizes Woods’ achievement as its benchmark since its complete records began in 1970, a golfer from an earlier era – when pros competed alongside amateurs – had a statistically better achievement. He won five times, and his victory at the Tour Championship secured the FedEx Cup. Jordan Spieth certainly hasn’t.

“I’m very satisfied. I felt comfortable all week, I felt it was just a short three-week break over the holidays and then just trying to continue what I was doing past year”. Brooks Koepka, playing with Spieth in the final group, had a wild start to his round but never got closer than the five-shot deficit he faced at the start. And Tiger Woods often opened his seasons with emphatic statement victories at Torrey Pines, including four in a row from 2005 through 2008. The phenomenon in question was called the “Tiger effect”, and some of the game’s best succumbed to it. “Some people aren’t going to like your swing, the way you grip the club, it’s just everything’s under a microscope to, at least in the golf world, and now extending outwards”. “But everyone else knew that he could do it and maybe tried to do a bit too much”.

During this time, a growing number of 19th-hole conversations will inevitably include comparisons between Spieth and Tiger Woods. But I find it hard to believe what he did can be matched, to be able to do it for an entire career like he did.

That could be one of the perks Sunday.

Spieth was quick to play down comparisons with the 14-time major champion’s achievements.

A few weeks later, he shot 59 in the final round to win the Bob Hope Classic.

“When (Spieth’s) playing good he’s going to make a lot of putts like he always does”, Kisner said after that round, via GolfChannel.com. The problem for him is what Woods did in the years just after he turned 23.

The week started with hype, as nearly all the big names showed up at Kapalua for this limited-field event, which invites only winners of PGA Tour events from the past 12 months. He won the final three majors, two of them by a combined 23 shots.

He finished at 30-under 262, becoming just the second player in history to hit that magic 30 number.

The 22-year-old Texan fired a closing round of six-under today, capping an incredible week of precision golf to win by eight strokes. He won at Kapalua in a playoff over David Toms and talked about winning the money title on the PGA Tour and European Tour. He has collected top-10 finishes in his last seven worldwide events and has two second-place finishes and a third-place finish in that span.

If his birdie attempt at 17 had not fell a foot short of the hole, he would have levelled the PGA record for 72 holes of 31 under which is held by Ernie Els.