U.S. Open: Tiger, DJ and a decade of champions
2015 Champion – Jordan Spieth
Whether your memory is anchored in the horrors of the Chambers Bay track or the extraordinary, heroic tenacity of Jason Day or the incredibly painful Dustin Johnson meltdown or Jordan Spieth’s 2nd major championship victory of the season, it’s hard to forget 2015.
As Rory McIlroy predicted, Spieth has not been able to sustain that standout, full-steam-ahead 2015 season. Still, the young Texan is a force to be reckoned with and should not be discounted. He’s 5th in the OWGR and 7th in the FedExCup rankings.
Any number of players on the PGA TOUR would swap stats with Spieth right now. He won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in perfectly dreadful conditions and he’s finished outside the top 20 only twice and missed only two cuts in his last 12 starts. Never mind that he missed the cut at TPC Sawgrass. THE PLAYERS seems to be an annual stumbling block for him.
Spieth’s performance stats don’t match his potential at this point in the season and that’s probably very troublesome to him. He’s never been long off the tee but he’s struggling right now with driving accuracy and his putting – and Spieth’s work on the green has historically been the very sharp tip of his deadly spear.
Will Spieth contend at Erin Hills? Possibly. Will he win? Probably not. His game is in some kind of transition.