What Jordan Spieth’s caddie said about Michael Jordan during final round of 2017 Open Championship which inspired him to victory

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Jordan Spieth won his third major championship at the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club.

Spieth was on top of the golfing world at the time after winning nine tournaments in the previous two years.

Despite that, he was somewhat short of confidence on Sunday’s back nine at the 2017 Open after two bogeys earlier in the round.

He once admitted that the key reason he eventually won was something his caddie Michael Greller said about Michael Jordan.

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How caddie Michael Greller inspired Jordan Spieth to 2017 Open Championship

Spieth started the fourth round at the 2017 Open with a three-shot lead over Matt Kuchar, though it had vanished by the end of the front nine.

He was struggling mentally at the time and didn’t feel confident that things would go his way in the remaining holes.

That was when Greller stepped up and reminded Spieth that he had recently been on vacation with sporting greats Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps in Cabo, Mexico.

Spieth explained, via Golf Monthly: “Michael did a great thing. On the seventh tee box, he said, ‘Do you remember that group you were with in Cabo (Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps) last week? You belong in that. You’re that calibre of athlete, and I need you to believe that right now because you’re in a great position in this tournament. This is a new tournament. We’re starting over here.’

“It changed me a bit mentally. I thought about it while I was over some of those key three- and four-footers that I made on seven and eight and then the 10-footers on 11, 12 – then all of a sudden, the lid came off. I thought it was so well said. It was just at the right time, and I’ll never forget what he told me, when he told me and the significance it had.”

Golf is as mentally challenging as any sport, so no doubt improved confidence can have an enormous impact on your game.

Jordan Spieth’s major record since 2017 Open Championship

Nobody could’ve predicted that Spieth wouldn’t win another major championship between the 2017 Open and the end of the 2024 season.

Indeed, it seemed far more likely that we would have five or six majors by now than not to have added any to his collection.

But the 31-year-old has finished in the top five once at the Open and PGA Championship, and three times at the Masters in the last seven years.

So, even though Spieth is now outside of the top 50 in the world rankings, it seems likely that if he continues to give himself chances on Sundays, he’ll finally get over the line one day.