There's a story that illustrates what kind of run Jordan Spieth is on and it has nothing to do with golf.
After he won the U.S. Open in June, he treated himself to a vacation in the Bahamas with friends. On the way back from a snorkeling trip, the group threw a couple fishing lines off the side of the boat.
Spieth hooked a big tuna and battled the fish for 21/2 hours. When he finally got it near the boat, he and his buddies were shocked at what they saw.
"What surfaced was like a 12-foot-long, 300-pound blacktip shark that had eaten the tuna and then had hooked itself," Spieth said with a grin. "So I guess I caught both in one."
Who else goes snorkeling and winds up catching a tuna and a shark? That's fishing's equivalent of a double-eagle.
Spieth, 22, hates the nickname "Golden Child," but he's earned it. The Dallas resident goes into the 97th PGA Championship at Whistling Straits this week trying to become only the third golfer to win three majors in a calendar year. If successful, he would join Ben Hogan (1953) and Tiger Woods (2000).
Spieth won the Masters in April and the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, then fought his way into the lead late in the final round of the British Open last month, only to finish one shot out of a playoff won by Zach Johnson.
"I recognize that there's only been a couple times that people have won three majors in a year, and that would be just such special company," Spieth said last week. "But just like at The Open Championship, when I get there it's just going to be about that tournament and that's all that will be on my mind.
"It will be easier for that to be the only thing on my mind than it was at The Open, not thinking about three in a row, slash Grand Slam, slash whatever. It will take a little bit off my shoulders and it will be very easy for me to focus on it as a tournament."