Jordan Spieth doesn’t think anyone is going to win the Grand Slam

Spieth weighs up the odds of a Grand Slam

Jordan Spieth had us ridiculously excited after winning the first two majors of 2015. We went into The Open at St Andrews knowing that Spieth, who was yet to turn 21, was already halfway to a proper Grand Slam. 

The ‘Tiger Slam’ of 2000-2001 which saw him hold all four major titles at once was hugely impressive, of course, but Big Cat never managed to win all four in a single year. 

Spieth, now 22, fell just short at St Andrews, finishing one shot off a three-man playoff that featured Marc Leishman, Louis Oosthuizen, and eventual winner Zach Johnson. 

Only one man has ever achieved the Grand Slam, and that was Bobby Jones, way back in 1930. Jones won the four major championships as they were back then: The Open, the US Open, the US Amateur and the British Amateur. 

No one has ever won what’s known as the modern grand slam, consisting of the current four majors: the Masters, the US Open, The Open and the PGA Championship. 

And the man who came close isn’t expecting that to change.

“I would be shocked if somebody wins the Grand Slam,” said Spieth on CBS This Morning. 

The recently displaced world number one seemed in uncharacterstically downbeat mood, likely a result of his disappointing recent form. “That went a little bit over to the side,” he said, after hitting a 7-iron. 

Spieth’s usual consistency has been somewhat lacking of late. 

“The ball was slicing off, which is very odd,” commented Spieth after his WGC-Dell Match Play defeat to Louis Oosthuizen. “I tried to figure it out for the entire range session, but I just couldn’t grab a shot that I knew I could go to the course with. And on the first hole I sliced it off the tee there and kind of went from there. It was just a very off day.”

Spieth, now ranked number two in the world, has finished T-21, MC, T-17, T-18 in his last four stroke play events. Heading into last year’s Masters, where Spieth matched Tiger Woods’ scoring record and won by four shots, he had a win and two second-place finishes in his last three events. He’ll be hoping for a change in fortunes at this week’s Shell Houston Open before heading to Augusta next week. 

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