Jordan Spieth

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 8 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

As a child, Jordan Spieth was a golf prodigy. He played in his first professional tournament at just 16 years old, and by the age of 23 he had won three of golf's four major tournament titles. In this week's "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist got together with the young star at his home course in Dallas as he prepared to defend his British Open title. Spieth talks about his meteoric rise to the top of the PGA rankings, the comparisons to golf legends such as Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, and how he's managed to keep his life as normal as possible during it all.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another edition of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.8	Today's guest is one of the best engulf, maybe the best engulf, Jordan Spieth, the 24-year-old
0:12.5	phenom, went down to Dallas to his home golf club.
0:15.8	I met the three-time major winner on his home turf.
0:19.0	We talked a little bit inside, then we went out on the range.
0:21.8	It was in Dallas.
0:22.8	It was about 173 degrees outside.
0:24.4	It's what we stayed out there for a little while.
0:26.7	I think I got three shots off with a pitching wedge.
0:30.8	My third hit the target he was trying to hit.
0:33.3	I felt good because I topped the first two, but that's a thing.
0:36.1	You're standing over a pitching wedge with Jordan Spieth staring at you and analyzing your
0:41.4	swing.
0:42.4	Really amazing story.
0:43.9	He truly, a prodigy in every sense of the word.
0:46.6	He entered his first PGA professional golf tournament at 16 years old.
0:51.0	They gave him a sponsor exemption to get in.
0:53.2	He finished 16th in the tournament.
0:55.9	Became a global star when he was 21 years old by winning the Masters.
0:58.9	Remember the year before he almost won it at 20 years old.
1:02.4	I have to say, spending the day with him, incredibly grounded, incredibly family oriented.
1:07.6	He's engaged to his high school sweetheart.
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