RELATED: Final ranking table | Winner’s Bag: Jordan Spieth, RBC Heritage You can not take your eyes off him, because he is saturated in the squeak and has a chance in every hole. You do not like his chances of winning, because the player is suddenly not his friend. The exercise routine recently adopted by Spieth, which bears similarities to that of Alex Noren, can also be nerve-wracking to watch at times. But he still has those buttons that produce pure magic, and that’s totally weird. He moves and speaks. Do you think that you’re just trying to hit the shot? Then he makes sense and talks a little more and you realize, no, you do not want Spieth to hit until he makes sense and speaks a little more. When all the numbers were crumpled at the end of Sunday’s noisy and fun RBC Heritage, Spieth was ranked No. 60 in Strokes Gained: Putting. He had three-pointers for Baboula in the 11th to drop three of the lead. He had lost a bird from 11 feet on the 15th and 14 feet on the 16th. Oh, and it still gnawed at him for shaking carelessly and inexplicably, and he made a mistake, an 18-inch baht on Saturday the 18th hole. An insurmountable number of obstacles, eh? Especially that unforgivable Saturday that left him shocked. “I knew that (hiccups) at 18 would cost me,” said Spieth, “and I hoped he did it somehow, because if it did not happen, it would mean I played a very mediocre round today.” Unimaginable, how many things seemed to be piling up against Spieth, to the point where golfers never wanted to be – without controlling the situation. “I needed a lot of things to go right,” he admitted. “It’s a bit of a surprise.” It was a wild and crazy surprise, because from Patrick Cadaley, who seemed to have the playoffs under his control, to Shane Lowry, who made an equal number of rebounds around the world at No. 12 and 13 and had a two-year lead walking up to the 14th jersey, to any number of other contenders (Harold Varner III, Erik van Rooyen, Sepp Straka), the winner seemed likely to be anyone other than Jordan Spieth. Bless the heart of the young Texan, he understood why sitting there as the winner of the playoffs on Cantlay probably had the fans a little surprised. “(There are those weeks) where you feel like you played well but not well enough to win, and I honestly felt it was that week,” said Spieth, who at 28 won for the 13th time in his PGA TOUR career. Not that Spieth hadn’t done some checks to give himself a chance, because he certainly did. The magic of the beginning of the lap in par-5 (he held an eagle shot in the second and drained a 45-foot eagle in the fifth) quickly faded after Spieth had a bad shot in the ninth and three-in-11s.
