Jordan Spieth’s Putter Is Heating Up—That Should Scare Everyone

At the height of his powers, no one on the planet made more putts than Jordan Spieth. It was his superpower. From six feet or 60, you expected the ball to fall.

But in the years since, that trusty Scotty Cameron blade has developed a maddening streak. Some weeks it looks like magic. Other weeks his putter looks foreign in his hands. You never quite knew which version of the Texan would show up once he reached the greens.

Over his last two starts, though, there have been flashes—real ones—of 2015. And for the first time in a while, it feels less like nostalgia and more like something stirring again.

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After grinding out a top-25 in Hawaii, Spieth’s longtime coach, Cameron McCormick, made a subtle setup tweak designed to free up the former World No. 1. It wasn’t a wholesale overhaul—just a small change meant to quiet things down and let Spieth be Spieth again.

The results didn’t show up immediately. He missed the cut in Phoenix. But since then, the trend line has turned. He tied for 29th at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and followed it with a T-12 at the Genesis Invitational. More telling than the finishes, though, were the numbers: third (+5.823) and second (+6.152) in Strokes Gained: Putting.

That’s the Spieth formula.

“Looking at my spot, like looking up, looking at the hole, my spot seems to be a weapon that I've got back,” Spieth said Sunday at Riviera. “Which is really nice because I feel solid whether it's breaking or straight, anything in shorter range. Then that frees you up as you start to expand… all three weeks were really good with the putter.”

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Now Spieth heads to Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge on a sponsor exemption. He’s made just three starts at The King’s Place, but he’s made them count—T-4 in 2021, T-4 again in 2023, and a T-30 the last time he teed it up there.

“I feel very confident…I have a good history there and I feel like I got some momentum,” Spieth said.

That’s the part that should get everyone’s attention.

A confident Spieth—one who believes in the line, trusts the stroke, and starts seeing putts fall—has a way of turning tournaments sideways. If the putter travels with him to Bay Hill, the rest of the field might be in for a long week.