Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Need to see Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris taking part in as juniors in 2009?

That headline asks a rhetorical questions, as a result of, after all you do.

Fortunately, WFAA in Dallas, Texas, posted to its X account video from the 2009 Byron Nelson Junior Championship, which was gained by Jordan Spieth, then a sophomore on the prep college affectionately often known as Dallas Jesuit.

Because the report states, Spieth shot a second-round 62 and gained by 11 photographs.

“I informed my caddie throughout it, as soon as I used to be 3 or 4 below, I informed him don’t inform me what I’m at, or else I’ll begin desirous about what I can shoot,” Spieth, who turned 16 in the summertime on ’09, informed WFAA’s George Riba. “Don’t inform me what I’m at till I obtained about two holes left. And that’s what occurred.”

Additionally included within the report had been a 13-year-old Scottie Scheffler and a 12-year-old William Zalatoris.

“It’s laborious as a result of they hit it a lot additional than me,” Scheffler stated on the time. “However I obtained expertise out of it.”

Added a prescient Spieth, “Each of them, they’re going to be so good in a number of years. They’re already wonderful for his or her age, but when they’re competing with guys 5 years older than them, think about what they do after they’re the outdated ones.”

Spieth proved fairly good himself. He gained the U.S. Junior that yr after which made the reduce within the PGA Tour’s Byron Nelson occasion as a 16-year-old in 2010.


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