2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions: Top 10 power rankings at Kapalua

A win and four top-10s in four Sentry Tournament of Champions starts is a solid resume for Jordan Spieth.

His victory at the Plantation course came in 2016 after rounds of 66-64-65-67 produced a whopping eight-shot victory. It tied for the largest winning margin since David Duval lapped the field by nine in 1999.

Spieth made just two bogeys all week in ‘16 while finishing first in strokes gained putting (7.54 total) and SG tee to green (9.679). He also only found one bunker, from which he successfully got up and down.

The Texan is used to playing a windy course like this and is a savant at knowing the right shot shapes and trajectories out of Augusta-like sloping fairways. That’s evidenced by a solo second (66-70-69-69) finish in 2014, T-3rd (72-69-70-65) in 2017 and ninth (75-66-70-69) in 2018.

“It’s nice coming back here,” Spieth was transcribed by ASAP Sports in 2018. “I look at four or five courses in a year where whatever — for whatever reason I seem to have success, whether I’m playing great or feel like I’m kind of just kind of getting through it and this is one of those places.”

It’s crazy to think this is Spieth’s first trip to Maui in four years, but the way he was playing in 2021 makes more return trips likely.

Spieth won for the first time in four years at the Valero Texas Open. He also had two runner-ups, including one at The Open Championship, and eight total top-10s against one missed cut last season.

He cooled off a bit late in the year, but some time away should have him rejuvenated for the new year.

The quest for his fourth major will be on full blast in 2022. A win in Hawaii will only ramp it up in the four months until Augusta.