Jordan Spieth is Having His Worst Year; Exploring America’s Favorite’s Struggling Form

Jordan Spieth will most likely miss his second cut at Copperhead Course in the 2024 season. Last weekend, at the Players Championship as well, the 13-time PGA Tour winner couldn’t stretch his game to the weekend and had to pack his bags earlier. Thus, it wouldn’t be far-fetched to say that the year hasn’t been going ideally for the golfer who started his season with an impressive score at third berth.

Spieth made it to the top of the leaderboard only two times this year and has also once been disqualified from continuing his game despite making the cut. These have created hurdles for the golfer who has time and again found himself surrounded by “weird circumstances that have kind of thrown some results out the window.”

Jordan Spieth’s sinking 2024 ship

Jordan Spieth started the 2024 season with a promising performance at The Sentry in Hawaii. By the side of the sea in Kapalua Plantation Course, the 30-year-old posted his best score of 27 under 265 and finished solo third at the leaderboard. Quite incredible, isn’t it? Well, with this Spieth was expected to rise even higher, but that did not seem the case.

At the second start of his season in Pebble Beach, Spieth’s performance was the opposite of what he did in Hawaii. Over the shortened 54-hole event, he started with an at-par opening round of 72, continuing with two rounds of 69-69. With only 6 under in three rounds, Spieth was at T39 on the leaderboard. Then the tides changed once again at the WM Phoenix Open. Though he didn’t win the event, with rounds of 68-66-69-67, Spieth had his second-best finish of T6.

Was he on the right track? Absolutely. Did he continue down the same road? The results do not affirm to the same. After a pleasant week at TPC Scottsdale, Spieth moved to the Genesis Invitational. And here, things were turned sadly disappointing. He played two rounds (66-73). However, after round two, Spieth was disqualified for incorrectly signing a bogey putt for a par on the par-3 14th hole. Spieth was probably recovering from the bitter end of the Genesis Invitational when he started his game at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

At Bay Hill GC, Spieth started with an opening round of 69, better than the round he last played at Riviera GC. However, in the next two rounds, he was collectively 7 over par. Eventually, he finished the Arnie’s Invitational 1 over 289, and at T30; his second-worst performance if counting the events he played all four rounds at. Things were going haywire for Spieth as next in line was his first missed cut of the year.

Jordan Spieth’s two missed cuts in a row

It was time for the fifth major and Spieth had buckled himself to do things just right. However, at the PLAYERS Championship, things didn’t exactly go right. In round one, the 3-time major winner started with a bogey on the 1st hole, and he followed it with a birdie on the next. However, throughout the 18 holes, Spieth made five more bogeys. His round-one score was 2 over 74. Round two was slightly better, he made par with four birdies, three bogeys, and one double bogey. In the Spieth missed the cut by three strokes as he was 2 over 146.

Now, at the Copperhead Course, after playing round one, Spieth acknowledged, “It’s been a weird year” and he is a little uncertain for where things are. However, he would try to find more stability at the Valspar Championship and shoot a low score to make it till Sunday. That wish of Spieth is unfortunately hanging by a thread as he shot rounds of 69-74 and finished 1 over 43. He is two strokes away from the 72-par projected cutline and on his way to missing the second cut for the year.

Conclusively speaking, Jordan Spieth has never had a bad start to a season till now. He seems to struggle in scoring better at the greens and capitalize on his game. However, his increased responsibilities by becoming a PGA Tour policy board member may have affected his focus on the game. Spieth has expressed that with all the things messed up, he is trying to do the right thing. Moreover, he assured his fans, that in the end, “we’ll get there,” despite facing a few onstacles now.

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