BY GEORGE DICKIE
After one of his most
disappointing performances
of 2022, Jordan Spieth
picked himself up, dusted
himself off and played some
stellar golf.
Indeed, after he missed the
cut in April at the Masters,
the 28-year-old Texan found
his A-game the following
week in Hilton Head at
the RBC Championship,
defeating Patrick Cantlay in
a playoff with a spectacular
up-and-down shot from a bunker. Then in his next
tournament, the AT&T Byron Nelson, in mid-May, Spieth
put in a solid showing in his home state, engaging in a
final-round duel of birdies with K.H. Lee before finishing
second by a stroke.
So as he gets set to tee it up this week in the U.S. Open,
he apparently has his game on track. He's never played this
year's host course, The Country Club in Brookline, Mass.,
but he does have a track record of winning majors.
He has three Grand Slams to his credit – the 2015
Masters and the U.S. Open and the Open Championship
in 2017. At the '15 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay in
Washington, Spieth took advantage of a three-putt by
Dustin Johnson on the 72nd hole to win by a stroke in a
wild finish, thus giving him his second-straight major. So
when it comes to the big tournaments, Spieth can take the
pressure.
Spieth hopes hand stays
hot in U.S. Open
• FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 13 - 19, 2022 •
Jeff Bridges stars in the
FX espionage-drama
series "The Old Man,"
premiering Thursday.
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