
An aspect of the victory of Rory Mcilroy’s masters spoke to Jordan Spieth.
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Jordan Spieth knows the questions are coming.
Rory Mcilroy camped them and beat them back for 10 years plus in masters before Finally winning the green jacket To complete the Grand Slam career last month.
ABOUT Search of full mcilroyThe questions will now withdraw to Spieth, who will begin his ninth attempt to complete the Grand Slam career when the PGA champion leaves the Quail Hollow Club within two weeks.
Spieth has not won a tour in three years. He has not won a major since the 2017 Open Championship. While those droughts may seem staggering on paper, Mcilroy’s victory and his trip to the green jacket spieth the opposite.
Mcilroy’s masters won the spieth resonant not just because the 36-year-old Irish Northern finally summed up the mountain, but because he showed that he needed some slides in the Grand Slam career was not a death penalty.
“Not only did he finish it,” Spieth CBS ‘told Amanda Balionis after finishing fourth in CJ Cup Byron Nelson. “But the time it took to finish it. It was definitely a very challenging week for him. It was more difficult than anyone who probably ever won a master. It was so much latest his latest, and then go and do it, I mean, it was very inspiring.”
It took Mcilroy 11 to try to complete the Grand Slam career. Other club members – Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen – everyone won the last Slam match in three or fewer efforts.
Continuous pressure to pursue Grand Slam career every April at Augusta National was wearing mcilroy. The burden of the annual questions of the questions and trimmed it as it tried and failed to join the golf kingdom in a pantheon reserved for legends only.
“It is very difficult,” Mcilroy said after winning the masters. “I think I’ve done that burden since August 2014. It’s almost 11 years old. And not just to win my other major, but Grand Slam career. You know, trying to join a group of five players to do it, you know, seeing many of my peers get green jackets in the process.
“It was a heavy weight to keep, and fortunately now I don’t have to keep it, and that I liberate me and I know I’m getting back here every year, which is beautiful.”
Spieth has faced the same questions in the PGA Championship for the past eight years. But even in PGA, he has not been only The story scenario. The main drought of the Mcilroy championship absorbed most of the oxygen for the last 10 years. Spray on dominant runs from Brooks Koepka, Scottie Scheffler and others, and Spieth has been able to share the microscope while shooting for the Grand Slam career.
But with mcilroy off the stroke, the spieth will reach the Quail Hollow Club in two weeks as The story scenario. Yes, Rory, JT, Scottie and Bryson will order attention, but they will be second to spieth.
A great long -time champion in a drought that is looking to make history. Sounds familiar?
Spieth has not had a Top-10 in a major since 2023 masters. But now completely healthy after hand-to-hand surgery, Spieth is playing as a top-30 player in the world. He fired a 9-nine 62 Sunday at CJ Cup Byron Nelson to end up in a tie for fourth place, 12 shots after Scottie Scheffler’s Mark of record links. This 62 was good enough to catch +6.441 stroke, which is the best round of Spieth since the last round of, you thought it, 2023 masters.
Scheffler, Mcilroy and Bryson Dechambeau will attract attention to Quail Hollow. There is no doubt.
But Spieth will be the main attraction, especially if he plays well in the Truist championship of next week – a signature event that needed a sponsor exception to play.
If Mcilroy can pour his demons into Augusta National and win the Grand Slam career on attempt No. 11, then why can’t spieth, who does not have the number of scars that mcilroy does, do the same?
He believes he can. Mcilroy told him that time is not a curse. This perseverance and confidence can be repaid. You just have to go back to the well.
In two weeks, the spieth will return to the well and prepare for another run in history, hoping that its ninth swing ends with it raising the Wanamaker trophy on Sunday.

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Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for Golf.com. Before entering Golf, Josh was the interior of Chicago Bears for the NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and Uo alum, seduces and spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, thinking about how the ducks will break his heart again, and trying to become half a professor into pieces. A true romantic for golf, Josh will never stop trying to break 90 and will never lose the confidence that Rory Mcilroy’s main drought will end (updated: he did it).