Jordan Spieth is having a wild week—even by Jordan Spieth standards

of Jordan Spieth Performance on the course has been a bit of a roller coaster ride in recent years.

The 32-year-old has 13 PGA Tour wins, the most recent of which was the 2022 RBC Legacy, but is struggling to recapture the early-career form that propelled him to three major championships between 2015 and 2017. Since then, he has finally faced a 20-year hiatus from an injury in his late 20s.

So far, the 2026 season has shown encouraging signs of promise for Spieth, who now has four top-12 finishes in his last six starts. And at last week’s Masters, Spieth closed with a final-round 68 – and made a particularly bold claim about the current state of his game.

“I hit it better than the year I won and I hit it a lot better than any second or fourth place I hit.” he said. “Probably the best I’ve ever hit here and I usually putt these greens really well.”

That’s a pretty high mark, especially considering Spieth’s performance in the Augusta National over the years, which includes six top 5s and 10 top 25s in 13 appearances.

Spieth’s rosy ball-striking rating is certainly an encouraging metric of progress, but one of the hallmarks of Spieth’s game is his penchant for theatrics on the course — at least when it comes to scoring. And at this week’s RBC Heritage — another course where Spieth has had impressive success over the years, with five top-12 finishes in 10 appearances, including the aforementioned win and a runner-up finish in 2023 — Spieth is back to his signature antics.

At first glance, Spieth’s opening rounds of 69-72 in the Harbor city are somewhat ho-hum – one under par, 13 shots behind leader Matt Fitzpatrick. But Statistics guru Justin Ray took a closer look and discovered a surprising, but entirely on-brand, data point.

In the first 36 holes at Harbor Town, Spieth made nine birdies. Not bad! Unfortunately those birdies were largely canceled out by four two-bogeys – one in the first round and three in the second.

According to Ray’s research, this made Spieth the only player over the past 20 years on the PGA Tour to have four or more double-bogeys and zero bogeys through 36 holes in any tournament.

Unfortunately, the bogey-free streak didn’t last long. On Saturday, Spieth’s first singles of the tournament found him on the par-4 6th with a three-putt. But that misstep was, surprisingly, preceded by a birdie on the par-5 2nd.

For better or worse, Spieth remains one of the game’s most entertaining players.