By:
Kevin Cunningham
December 14, 2022
Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas have a good time their win over Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy at The Match.
David Cannon/Getty Photographs for The Match
This week we’ll get to see Tiger Woods in motion on stay TV when he performs alongside his son Charlie on the PNC Championship. However we already witnessed Tiger’s first aggressive swings since July at The Match on Saturday. How did it go for Tiger? Simply ask his opponent Jordan Spieth.
Spieth teamed up with longtime pal Justin Thomas to beat Tiger and Rory McIlroy 3 and a pair of over 12 holes at Pelican Golf Membership in Florida. However throughout a current radio look, Spieth revealed that regardless of having fun with their victory, he and JT relished in Tiger’s loss much more.
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Spieth joined SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio’s Gravy & The Sleaze present this week for a Match autopsy, and the three-time main champ expounded on the novelty of Tiger dropping, and the fun of being the one to ship him the L.
“Tiger, first off, he doesn’t lose fairly often, hasn’t in his entire profession,” Spieth advised hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz. “Ultimately we bought these bracelets, and Tiger’s simply standing there having to observe another person get topped a champion. I don’t know if that’s ever occurred to him earlier than.”
That, after all, shouldn’t be true, as Thomas himself acknowledged (“I’m positive he’s completed second at a U.S. Open and so they make you go on the market”). In reality, Woods misplaced the first-ever version of The Match, having to observe his longtime nemesis Phil Mickelson earn bragging rights at Shadow Creek again in 2018.
However the level stays, Tiger doesn’t lose typically, and he famously abhors the expertise, so Spieth boldly determined to let Tiger know simply how a lot he loved watching him fume on the awards ceremony after the loss.
“I used to be simply sort of laughing, and I mentioned one thing like there’s extra pleasure in how offended Tiger is true now than even successful this factor,” Spieth shared. “And he simply smiled, primarily saying ‘F off.’ He was like, ‘Yea, it’s true.’ He’s simply so aggressive, and he’s simply not used to dropping, and much more so having to face there, I simply thought that was sort of a humorous state of affairs that The Match will convey out, as a result of we might have been simply as pissed on the opposite facet.”
That was removed from the one trash discuss dished out through the seventh iteration of The Match (you’ll be able to learn highlights of one of the best smack discuss right here), however, in response to Spieth, Thomas nearly pulled off a prank on a complete different degree on the very begin of the occasion, one that might have immediately focused Tiger’s age and prolonged damage historical past.
“Justin and Tiger are actually shut, he goes over to Tiger’s home very often, so he can lean on him just a little bit,” Spieth mentioned, earlier than making the large reveal. “He nearly introduced a cane to the primary tee.”
You may watch a clip of Spieth’s look on the Gravy & The Sleaze present under.
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