New York Daily News — Jordan Spieth was wearing the same pants Tuesday as he did while winning the John Deere Classic on Sunday.
When you’ve only packed for one week and it’s been almost a month since, your wardrobe can be limited.
After contending at the AT&T National, one good week led to another for the 19-year-old, who became the first teenager since 1931 to win a PGA Tour event when he prevailed in a five-hole, three-man playoff, a win that sent him to the British Open.
“I only packed for one week,” said Spieth, who had been playing on sponsors’ exemptions. “I got in Greenbrier and then got in John Deere and then got here. I packed for one week and the Congressional (Bethesda, Md.) heat. I had a rain jacket. These are the pants I wore Sunday. They haven’t been washed.”
Everything about the year has been almost surreal for the kid, who played his first PGA Tour event at 16 on an invite from the Byron Nelson Championship. Sunday fit the pattern. He holed out from the sand on the 18th to join the playoff and held up the charter jet carrying players from Illinois to Scotland while it was being determined if he’d be a passenger. First, he went back to that bunker on 18 so his caddie, Michael Greller, could snap a picture of him in it.