\u201cI feel like I have years that — how old was Phil [Mickelson] when he won his first major? 34?<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are plenty of examples where guys have played their best golf from there on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m always comparing myself a bit to myself at my best, but I am not trying to be the exact player.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s more to remind myself that I can do it. I know my ceiling is where that level was, and so I’m going to strive for it with the type of player that I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spieth\u2019s record since winning The 146th Open is far from unimpressive.<\/p>\n
In majors, he has seven top-10 finishes, including a runners-up finish to Collin Morikawa at Royal St George\u2019s five years ago.<\/p>\n
He always draws a crowd and has been placed in a marquee group with Tommy Fleetwood and Jon Rahm for the first two rounds.<\/p>\n
Spieth missed last week\u2019s Scottish Open in order to get to Royal Birkdale early.<\/p>\n
With a spectacular new par-3, a long par-5 and alterations to the world-famous 18th, there is much to learn.<\/p>\n
But some things always remain the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really was looking forward to going to the 18th green again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning The Open was a significant highlight of my life.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s arguably the best tournament in the world and the greatest trophy in the world to attain.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo on the list of goals, it was right up there at the top.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing on that green is where that happened, and I was really looking forward to getting back, walking back down 18 and reliving what it was like to walk the 18th hole at The Open.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the most unique finishing walk in golf. To have those memories and be able to walk up there again was really special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI feel like I have years that — how old was Phil [Mickelson] when he won his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}