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SPIETH back to the basics, being have begun to grab majors:
Continued from Page 18 an athlete, figuring out Reed, Justin Thomas, Brooks
"Technically the Masters, within the swing, the Koepka.
I didn't really have a intricacies of the game. "It almost feels like I'm back
chance. The back nine, I Kind of the stuff — the in high school and college,"
ended up giving myself a reason I love to practice — Spieth joked.
chance. that's what's going to kind "These are the same guys
"Yeah, just the limited of bring it back, and results we used to battle it out with
number compared to aren't everything." then, and I'd win one, then
previous years of chances Maybe not, except that they would win one. It's just
I've had on the weekends when the results have been blown up now because
has been frustrating." so spectacular so quickly, there was no coverage; no
Spieth, 24, always has been they become how you are one really cared to watch
mature as a competitor measured by the public. us back then, and now
and person. When he went Spieth has won 11 times people do.
after the career Grand Slam in his first five full seasons, "But it's nothing different
for the first time last year at including those three major than what we've kind of
the PGA Championship, he championships. His putting been doing with each
wound up 10 shots back. skills are envied by many other for a number of years.
No one contemplated he of his peers. So are his It's really cool to be out here
wouldn't have won another analytical breakdowns of doing it, but I don't think
PGA Tour title since, missing shots, holes, his swing. we ... think of it as a totally
two cuts before the Masters His optimism that all will be different experience than Jordan Spieth hits off the seventh tee during a practice round
and two more after. right again is praise-worthy anything we've always kind for the U.S. Open Golf Championship, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in
Southampton, N.Y.
While exasperated, Spieth, — and probably accurate. of done."q Associated Press
as always, believes he is "I feel like my game is in
close to the way out of this the best shape it's been
mini-slump — for him, at in a long time, including
least. last year," he said. "And
"Over the last, since my results don't necessarily
probably in between Austin speak towards that, but
(a first-round elimination I feel that way, and so I'll
by Patrick Reed in match stick with the process, and
play) and Houston was they'll surely come at some
a really big weekend for point."
me of settling down and If that point is this week,
getting back on the right Spieth must outshoot not
track with things," he said. only the sentimental fan
"And recognizing that it's choices (Tiger Woods and
a long career, and, you Phil Mickelson) but all of
know, results aren't going those young guns who
to come by wanting them
to come. They're going to
come by being obsessed
with the process, getting