Jordan Spieth is ONE OF US.
Last weekend, professional golf’s third major of the year was played at Oakmont Country Club. The historically challenging golf course ended up being the perfect venue for creating high levels of drama during the final round of the U.S. Open. Oakmont’s unrelenting nature and thick-as-a-bowl-of-oatmeal rough made professional golfers look like weekend warriors.
The course wasn’t even nice to J.J. Spaun, the eventual U.S. Open champion. I’ve watched golf (and played golf) for a long time and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a stroke of bad luck worse than this:
Somehow Spaun overcame that in the final round and claimed the 2o25 U.S. Open title in dramatic fashion.
Others in the field didn’t come out victorious. All professionals who made the cut and played on Saturday and Sunday did get paid, but some golfers – like Jordan Spieth – were mentally exhausted when it was all said and done. And when you hit shots like this (not his fault, that rough was a beast) in a major championship, it’s easy to see why you’d be over the whole battling Oakmont thing:
Think we’ve all hit a shot like that before, no?
But just as life continues to move forward, so does the PGA Tour’s tournament schedule. Professionals had a couple of days to recoup from the nightmarish test of Oakmont Country Club before they had to move on to the next week’s event – The Travelers Championship at TPC Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.
Jordan Spieth already has his sights set on the new, fresh week of competition, and he spoke with the media (something that Rory McIlroy hates to do) earlier today about how he was able to recover from the grueling competition of the U.S. Open.
The professional golfer was incredibly transparent in his answer, and basically said that he had some time to kill before he left Oakmont, Pennsylvania (where the U.S. Open was played) to head to the Travelers Championship because he and Scottie Scheffler were traveling together, and the number one player in the world was still playing his round.
So Spieth and his caddie, Michael Greller, went to Buffalo Wild Wings, and Jordan Spieth did what any golfer does after finishing up a frustrating round of golf – he got hammered:
“Had a few beers Sunday. We were waiting on the Schefflers to come over here (to the Travelers Championship) and he was after the delay. So I went to Buffalo Wild Wings with Michael. I didn’t exactly eat or drink the way I normally do there.
Most of the time it’s very, very good, but sometimes post U.S. Open, I just kind of needed to throw a few back. By yesterday, I was good. I’m still young enough that it doesn’t really bother me the next day.”
I’ll have to remember to use that “I didn’t exactly eat or drink the way I normally do” line. It’s just a roundabout way of saying he was three sheets to the wind.
Imagine being at a Pennsylvania Buffalo Wild Wings, maybe even watching the U.S. Open on one of their big screens, and looking over to see a guy who had just played in the tournament getting drunk. That’s some next level, legendary stuff from Jordan Spieth.
And the good news for the 31-year-old pro golfer is that if he ever wants to run it back at Buffalo Wild Wings, it looks like B-Dubs has him covered:
