Monday was a day to walk with Jordan Spieth at Riviera, to see the world’s best golfer at closer proximity than you’re ever likely to see the world’s best anything do anything.
The reigning Masters, U.S. Open and Tour Championship winner was in the Collegiate Challenge, which links a tour player with a player currently at his alma mater, with two amateurs thrown in.
Spieth’s Texas partner was Beau Hossler, who led the 2012 U.S. Open briefly as a junior at Santa Margarita High. before he finished second low amateur to ... Spieth.
Hossler kept guiding mammoth draws into faraway places; Spieth kept making putts from remote locations as the caddies smiled and shook their heads. And the Longhorns won the team competition, as minority Dodgers owner and Bel Air Country Club member Bobby Patton kept in step.
Texas coach John Fields carried Hossler’s bag. Michael Greller, the former schoolteacher who became Spieth’s caddie and could have made enough money for his tour card on those earnings alone, was here, too.
Not many global heads of sport spend their Mondays like this, but Spieth remains true to both school and Old School.