Jordan Spieth cruises to TOC win

Reed, who fired a four-under-par 69, got off to a good start as he made two long birdie putts at the first and second before converting two more at the fifth and ninth.

“He hasn’t given anyone opportunities to really catch up”, said Rickie Fowler, who finished 10 shots behind.

Spieth did not invite comparisons with Woods.

“I was looking at the forecast”.

Had Spieth matched his second-round score of 64 he would have broken Els’ record, but he saved his highest score of the tournament for the final round. “I need to get a lot more sharp”. I will always carry an image of Johnny Miller in plaid pants hitting iron shots with absurd precision to win the 1975 Phoenix Open by 14 shots, then coming back the next week at Tucson to win by nine with a closing 61. Spieth won his seventh title in his 77th start as a pro.

He now has closed out his last five wins with at least a share of the lead, and this was the third time in the last 13 months that he led by four shots or more.

It was revealed on ESPN that Spieth made two straight birdies and made an 8-foot birdie putt to reach his target.

World No 1 Spieth, 22, will make his Abu Dhabi debut on January 21, and if there were any doubts he would be the player to beat, they were dispelled by a stunning performance in Hawaii. Instead of chipping short and letting it run onto the green and feed down the grain to the hole, he opened his stance and hit a flop shot to 3 feet. It looked as if the best play was a chip that bounced onto the green and rode the grain and slope. It came off perfectly to tap-in range.

“My mentality didn’t change after I got started”, Reed said. It just is. There’s so much expectation, so much attention and focus. “It’s been spectacular this week”.

He finished at 30-under par for the tournament joining Ernie Els as the only players in PGA tour history to finish a 72-hole event at 30 under or lower.

He has won the last four times he’s had the 54-hole lead, all of them past year. “I got it to within three”.

“We were just trying to win the golf tournament. That would be a place I’ve never been”.

“It’s incredible the way Jordan manages his game going around all 18 holes”, said final round playing partner Koepka.

“You do the talking with your clubs”, he said.

“I think each time you can close one out… when you’re in contention again, people are thinking, ‘OK, he knows how to close, right?”

“I guess accepting that is the first step”.

If he keeps making shots like that near-albatross at 18 on Saturday, Spieth may soon be giving Tiger-like advice to his own acolytes.