Jordan Spieth has not slept for nearly 30 hours because he is too excited about playing at The Open.
His Dallas drawl can’t contain the buzz at being in Hoylake and even after a long flight from the United States his face is fresh and lights up every time he mentions this major championship - especially when he talks about winning it.
Spieth doesn’t turn 21 until the end of the month but there is a real chance he could lift the Claret Jug this week. He nearly pulled off one of the greatest wins in history at the Masters, leading by two strokes in the final round before a Bubba Watson masterclass prevented Spieth from breaking Tiger Woods’s record as the youngest ever Augusta champion.
Spieth announced himself to the world a year ago by becoming the first teenager to win on the PGA Tour since 1931. He’s already cracked into the world’s top 10 and is all but certain to play in the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles. In short, Spieth is a superstar in the making. If he wins at Hoylake this week, his status in America will soar into the stratosphere.
‘I wouldn’t be part of it if I didn’t think I was going to win - there wouldn’t be much point, right?,’ he says with a natural and easy grin when asked about his chances.
Despite his origins in Texas, Spieth loves life by the British seaside. ‘It’s better than I could have even imagined. It’s such a cool town. The golf is incredible,’ he gushes. If the present career doesn’t work out, a job with Wirral Tourism is surely his. But given that he has already earned $3.8million on the course this year, he probably doesn’t need to take it.