Jordan Spieth’s run this year has been anything but smooth. After finishing 38th at the FedEx St. Jude Championship and slipping to 54th in the FedEx Cup standings, the three-time major winner now finds himself outside the top 50 for the second consecutive year.
His Ryder Cup hopes hang by a thread, sitting at No. 28 in the U.S. standings, with no more chances to prove himself after failing to advance.
Amid this uncertainty, nine-time major winner Gary Player has stepped in with a bold and brutally honest assessment.
The golf legend declared that Spieth is the best golfer in the world. But with a “tragedy.”
“Jordan Spieth, I think, is the best golfer in the world,” Player told ‘The Golf Supply’. “But in my opinion, he was taught the wrong thing. And he just went downhill.”
Player’s critique centered on the swing fundamentals and what he sees as a widespread flaw in American golf instruction.
“There is a tremendous lack of knowledge with golf,” he stated in the video on YouTube. “I would say in America today the golf pros that are teaching know less about golf. They have all the equipment and the technology, but they are teaching golfers to do this at the top. But you can’t — once you do that, you are gone.”
He referenced legends like Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer to illustrate his point.
