Jordan Spieth Faces Challenging 2026 PGA Showdown: Major Victory Insight Revealed
Things were going great for Jordan Spieth on Friday at the Players Championship. Until they weren't.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH — It is year 13 for Jordan Spieth at the Players Championship, and he still has not learned. It certainly sounds like he doesn't plan to, either. That's precisely why no one can quit the guy.
Not the fans who came out in droves to watch him on Friday at TPC Sawgrass. Not his caddie, Michael Greller, who experienced what had to feel like the one millionth high-wire act his boss man dragged him through in Round 2. And not the media, who flocked to the Spieth-Fowler-Theegala group as the three-time major champion climbed his way up the leader board, playing the first 17 holes in six under par.
People follow Spieth because he'll never learn. The Spieth experience is not about watching him boringly plod his way around the golf course, it's about seeing what the hell he's going to do next. On the par-5 ninth, his final hole of the day, Spieth went full Spieth, pulling his drive into the left trees, where he had no swing, chopping it out into the fairway, then yanking a 3-wood so far left he immediately asked Greller for another ball, Tin Cup-style.
He is the golf version of a car crash. No matter how bad it gets, you can't look away. RELATED: Jordan Spieth makes a fair point in regard to the anhcoring debate The thing was, his round to that point was anything but.