Jordan Spieth's quest continues remarkable year of solo achievement in sports - Lebanon Democrat
What Jordan Spieth is trying to do now in golf — win all four major tournaments in one year — has not been done. Stars in individual sports stand alone, but rarely have they stood apart the way they are in 2015. In thoroughbred racing American Pharoah won that sport’s first Triple Crown since 1978, with jockey Victor Espinoza becoming the oldest rider (43)... In women’s tennis Serena Williams is one major from completing her sport’s first Grand Slam since Steffi Graf in 1988. (No man has done it since Rod Laver in 1969). Only the U. S. Open, which starts Aug. I might even slip in a nod to boxing, which this year enjoyed its most anticipated fight in years with Mayweather-Pacquiao, although that bout did not prove worthy of the hype or the wait. Williams we have admired and watched be great for years — ever since we first saw her as a brash teen on Key Biscayne in 1998 — but Spieth bursts across golf like a meteor, the biggest breakout star in all of sports. I wear belts older than he is. American golf hasn’t been this energized since a young man named Eldrick, audaciously nicknamed Tiger, riveted the nation’s imagination by winning The Masters in record fashion in 1997, at the same age Spieth is today. Source: www.lebanondemocrat.com
